Who Needs School When You Have Work?

Jul 29, 2011

This month should have been a pretty exciting month for me. I finished school so I assumed that with that out of the way I’d be able to at the very least start resuming some of the hobbies I was forced to stop due to school. Well, I was wrong– very, very wrong.

In lieu of school, work has picked up by A LOT. Where I should be working 40 hours a week, I’m working at least 50-60 depending on what craziness is going on or if I have to come in early to manage the queue and make sure we meet our metrics. I’m exhausted and honestly the only thing I want to do is run far, far away. I feel like I’m always at my computer which bodes very badly for Veracity because the absolutely LAST thing I want to do after I manage to stop working for the night is sit at my computer.

Thing should ease up in September however that’s already a month and a half of “free” time I have lost. I just feel like if it’s not something it’s something else and no matter what I do, I can’t ever just have a break. Case and point, Robby and I decided to replace the carpet with laminate flooring in the loft. The plan was that I would order the flooring and the underlayment today but that has been postponed because the car is making funny sounds so he wants to get it checked which means the awesome, awesome desk we got to replace my current desk is still sitting un-assembled in the spare bedroom. Like I said, I CANNOT win and at this point I’m about to give up.

To add to my already wonderful issues, I found out a few days ago that the server all of my sites were hosted on was quickly overloading due to the load being placed on it. After some research it was discovered that we needed additional ram, which is all fine a dandy but that ram was going to cost $200 and well, does it look like I have that kind of cash laying around? Not likely. I had gotten to the point where I started looking into other dedicated server despite the fact that I really did not want to give up my managed hosting and really did not want to consider building my own server and seeking some colocation management. So as a last resort I reached out to the members of Veracity to see if they would be able to chip in. A few awesome individuals did so and now we have a brand, new spanking server with enough ram and the right specs to deal with the load on the server. I can’t even being to express my sincerest thanks to the individuals who helped out with this issue– it means so much.

All and all despite all the issues at work and the lack of time for really anything, this week has been better than the past few. I’m just tired and in desperate need of a vacation or at least a mini-break but unfortunately, I don’t expect that is going to happen any time soon– much to my annoyance.