The Balancing Act
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about the work/life balance and trying to leave the wonderful world of IT behind me of an evening and do something more productive. Like watch TV.
So far I would have to say it has gone…fairly well. As with starting any new project or plan, you do really well for the first couple of days and then gradually slip back into your old ways. My plan was to continue working when getting home from work at three o’clock until around five and at that point the computers stay off until tomorrow. Last week I did this pretty well, but the downside is that I don’t always come straight home after work. Personal commitments and life in general dictate that stuff will happen and will need to be dealt with after work, which meant that after getting home I would spend some time working in the evening because I wasn’t able to do so that afternoon.
I also hadn’t planned for the fact that things don’t always go to plan with computers, and when the SBS 2003 server decided to keel over when I tried to reboot it last Friday night I was left with the unfortunate reality that I would have to go and sort it out. So last Saturday morning came and we had to get up relatively early to drive over to the office and get that back up and running again. Not really a problem as we were going to visit my folks anyway, but I could have done without waking up and jumping straight into the shower and heading out the door. Silver lining? I charge double at the weekend.
Then there was Windows 7. I have already posted my thoughts on it here on the site, and have spent a lot of time this week getting to know it. Then there’s the obligatory accountants work and continuing on with my plans to grow the business when we return from our holiday in the middle of March.
But this weekend is earmarked as “serious downtime”. No computers, no Windows 7 and no business talk. The rest of this evening belongs to Xbox Live and the next two days are for some sleep recovery and other general fun.
My final word for the week, something I heard on the radio yesterday morning. It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice.
Have great weekends everybody!
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Wish I could have hung out on Live with ya more, but my server crashed as well lol. Oh well, planty of time for Live later.
I’ve been doing pretty well getting home at a good hour . . . I just need to work on cooking dinner more then eating out.
Yeah it was a shame, now if that daft woman had ordered that hard drive then maybe you wouldn’t have had that server crash.
Not to worry, there are plenty more days and time for Live hijinks.