So I'm laying here in bed, and I should be sleeping. In fact I was about to go to sleep when I realized my feet were cold and I wasn't wearing socks. Chalk it up to poor circulation, but I almost always sleep with socks on when it's not summer. I had a realization a few days ago, or possibly a little over a week now, that I've been meaning to write about. I'll get to that in a second.

First, as you may have noticed Typhoon was down for a bit today. Al & I were re-running coax for the cable modem / tv & antenna today, in an effort to get the cable modem & router off the floor of soon-to-be Jason's bedroom and into the hall closet (this has been on the list of things to do all "winter" (i.e. since it hasn't been too hot to go in the attic). It got pushed up the priority list since Jason's moving in on Monday. So, I got to play monkey-boy in the attic. It's quite fun, crawling around up there. In general its a fairly easy attic to get around in, other than the one stupid phone cable and one stupid power cable. I want to seriously yell at whoever did that, such a lazy job not running it under and over the proper things, so they're constantly in the way. Anyway, in the process the network cable going to the switch that connects Typhoon the the world got bumped loose, so it was offline for a bit longer than I realized. I am happy, we finally got the tv hooked back up this evening, and I finally put the UPS/surge protector on it that I bought last summer. I realized today I need another one, as my computer speakers are popping much worse now without it.

Okay, so I promised to talk about this realization I had about working. If you would've asked me 6 months ago what I wanted to do for a job, I would've said server or network administration. Those are my pasion, what I really enjoy (hence running Typhoon and such). But my career right now is testing software by writing scripts and occasionally coding functions. While related, as they're both in the computer field, my career and my passion do not line up. My realization is that this is a good thing. One thing I remember people telling me, especially about computers, is they don't enjoy doing it in their free time anymore because thats what they do at work. Thats not something I really want, I have few enough hobbies as it is (although they are growing in number). And I enjoy the coding/testing aspect of the computer world, I'm fairly talented at it, and its something I *never* thought I'd be doing for a job, nor did I *ever* want to. But yet I'm happy doing it, challenged, and when I come home I don't feel like I've burned out all my computer time at work. So there's my great thought for the month.