I've been taking a mental health week and I'm glad I have! I seem to have gotten a lot accomplished this past week, including completely rewiring the boat's electrical system and sanding most of the trimwork. I feel so productive it's almost scary considering how fucked up I've been the last month or so..
My attempt at quitting all my vices at once was short lived.. I didn't smoke for 2 days and I didn't drink either, but that all ended last night.. Oh well, I didn't get stupid drunk and my lungs don't hurt today from smoking too many cigarettes so I really don't care.
I've decided that I'm not going to my house in Tennesse for the holidays because I'd rather stay here and work on the boat. I'm am DEFINITELY leaving this spring! I am DONE with Philadelphia and that's all there is to it! I'm finishing the boat and leaving the first week of nice weather we get. I don't know where I'm going to end up, but I'm going to spend at least 6 months exploring various places accessable to me by water. I just finished converting every single CD I own over to MP3 format to make my music server, so I'll have plenty of music for my trip. I've managed to completely fill up one 200GB hard drive with nothing but music and another with nothing but movies. These will be connected to my entertainment system and I can even share them with anyone with a wifi connection, which is pretty cool. Like I said.. I got a lot done this week.
Tonight I'll be updating my website to reflect the changes I'm making to the way my company will do business from here on out. I am only interested in doing remote management under a monthly service contract from now on. I've put together a small network of excellent consultants who will handle everything else for me while I'm gone. I'm doing this because for the last 3 years I have worked 60-70 hour weeks and slowly driven myself fucking nuts and I'm tired of it! It's hard to have any kind of relationship when you're always working, it's just not fair to the other person. I'm not going to waste the best years of my life chasing money like my parents and my grandfather did.
I've carefuly planned it all out, figured out exactly what I need to live on and exactly how many billable hours a week are needed to get that. I only need 20 hours a week of remote management or consulting work to get by quite comfortably, why the hell would I want to work any more than that??? I don't need to be rich, I certainly don't have any desire to impress my family! All they ever measure success by is money and I'm really quite tired of feeling like I have to measure up to them.
So.. anyway.. life is good, no more insomnia, no more worries. I'm getting rid off all the excess baggage and I feel good about it.
My attempt at quitting all my vices at once was short lived.. I didn't smoke for 2 days and I didn't drink either, but that all ended last night.. Oh well, I didn't get stupid drunk and my lungs don't hurt today from smoking too many cigarettes so I really don't care.
I've decided that I'm not going to my house in Tennesse for the holidays because I'd rather stay here and work on the boat. I'm am DEFINITELY leaving this spring! I am DONE with Philadelphia and that's all there is to it! I'm finishing the boat and leaving the first week of nice weather we get. I don't know where I'm going to end up, but I'm going to spend at least 6 months exploring various places accessable to me by water. I just finished converting every single CD I own over to MP3 format to make my music server, so I'll have plenty of music for my trip. I've managed to completely fill up one 200GB hard drive with nothing but music and another with nothing but movies. These will be connected to my entertainment system and I can even share them with anyone with a wifi connection, which is pretty cool. Like I said.. I got a lot done this week.
Tonight I'll be updating my website to reflect the changes I'm making to the way my company will do business from here on out. I am only interested in doing remote management under a monthly service contract from now on. I've put together a small network of excellent consultants who will handle everything else for me while I'm gone. I'm doing this because for the last 3 years I have worked 60-70 hour weeks and slowly driven myself fucking nuts and I'm tired of it! It's hard to have any kind of relationship when you're always working, it's just not fair to the other person. I'm not going to waste the best years of my life chasing money like my parents and my grandfather did.
I've carefuly planned it all out, figured out exactly what I need to live on and exactly how many billable hours a week are needed to get that. I only need 20 hours a week of remote management or consulting work to get by quite comfortably, why the hell would I want to work any more than that??? I don't need to be rich, I certainly don't have any desire to impress my family! All they ever measure success by is money and I'm really quite tired of feeling like I have to measure up to them.
So.. anyway.. life is good, no more insomnia, no more worries. I'm getting rid off all the excess baggage and I feel good about it.
I've done the same thing. Converting all my music to server format that is. Now if I only had a clue about networking I would be all set.