Vacation 2010

Sometimes the best vacation is the one where you don’t go anywhere. Just stay home and do nothing. Play a few computer games piddle around the house or whatever you feel like.

The first week off is usually the hardest. I don’t know how many times I checked my email at work to see if I missed anything. I really didn’t miss much and I have the pleasure to know that my box is going to be empty next Monday when I get back into the office.

But between checking emails, I did manage to work on Mustfindit and was able to get it up and running using the Web2py framework. It was sort of interesting trying to integrate OpenId with it using RPX. I’m not sure if this is the final login configuration or if I’m going to use Web2py’s authorization system.

I got tired of the old Mustfindit logo so I decided to do something new and pleasant:

Figure 1: The Official Mustfindit Logo

When you’re home for a couple of weeks, your Dachshunds will drive you crazy. It wasn’t so bad when we had one Dachshund, but with three, they just seem to drive you nuts. I’m sure they’ll be happy when we go back to work where they can sleep all day long. Molly seemed to enjoy Vacation where she could go outside during lunchtime and sunbathe with me while I worked on my tan.

Figure 2: The Official Dachshund of Vacation

The main point of the vacation was to relax and just do something different. In my case, it was working on the house. Neglected repairs that need attention throughout the year got postponed due to lack of weekend time. Painting the ceiling where the air conditioner leaked was the number one objective. The drywall repair was completed months ago but I never had two or three days to finish up the painting.

The painting was really a pain-in-the-neck. Some areas were difficult to reach even with a 12 foot pole, but I managed to get it done. The really hard part was trying to paint around the base of a chandelier. I could reach it with a 6 foot pole but it took many careful passes to prevent any mistakes.

Figure 3: Official Troika SAN Command Knife

There were so many jobs completed and yet to complete, but the handy Troika knife I got from work a few years ago won a badge of excellence! It played a part in every job and I couldn’t have done it any other way. We used to hand out those knifes at Storage Networking shows, but I think after 9/11, all the business travelers stopped carrying pocket knives so the sales people handed them out to the engineers.

I’ll probably put another coat of paint on something before the vacation is over. The sad thing is that we didn’t get to use any of our discount Disney tickets this week since our annual passes expire next week. But we can always renew them for next year.