managing stress in a fast-paced world

My company is shutdown for a week… I am still working though, at least I can work from home for a good portion of the day. The nice thing is that even if something goes wrong and I have to go into the office to fix it, it is literally 5 minutes away. How I love the way things are…

Anyways, during the late nights I’ve been painting and setting up the house. I got the Fiber hooked up, I took a screen capture from DSL Reports the speed is insane, something like 8mbit upstream and downstream. Bittorrent was able to UPLOAD! at 2MB/sec without any issues.

I replaced all my lighbulbs with 100W compact flourescent ones, they actually only use 23W, so the package says you save $77/year for each bulb. I changed a total of 20, I hope it makes a difference.

As for the paint, lets see, we got the following colors from Home Depot:

Fudge Bar - 1/2 bath

Fossil Butte - living room

Earth Tone - 1/2 of the staircase

Sunset Beige - 1/2 of the staircase

Painted Turtle - bedroom

It’s starting to look nice in here, once the furniture and blinds get here… it’ll be ready to have a party!

I remember when I interviewed for my current job, I actually had more than one interview, I think it was two, maybe three. What I remember most vividly was the last interview, the hiring managers were really concerned if I would be happy with this position. The funniest thing was right before I signed the papers, one of the guys told me “you know it’s alot of work…”

That was sort of an understatement… he was right though, there’s never a dull moment and the startup environment I am loving it, although I think I spend too much of the companies money and alot of times things don’t always go according to plan. The long hours and neverending list of things to do are a welcome change from what I was doing before.

So I’m back from South East Asia… what have I been doing…

1 - taking pictures, the holidays are busy.

2 - still moving, how did I accumulate all this stuff?

3 - working, funny how alot of things just waited for me to come back.

This is my life, 12 hours of work everyday and then go home to pack, move and unpack… maybe next year will be a bit better.