The Aerie
Okay, life is slowly returning to some semblance of order, although how long that will last is hard for me to say.
I just finished the Big Project of setting up services on the new internal fileserver in the house. I have a computer with mirrored 200 Gigabyte drives, enough space, or so I thought, to store almost everything, forever.
Of course now it's 3/4's full and I'm starting to dream of external terabyte storage systems.
Meanwhile, I have sorted and assembled every bit of electronic data that I possess into neat little piles. All our family's digital photographs... here. Everything from my business, over there. All of my accumulated e-mail files for about 15 years, over here. Completely legal mp3 collection ripped from CDs that I purchased, right there. Illegal mp3's and other media... deleted! Destroyed! Purged!! Keep your RIAA away from me!
With everything neatly sorted into appropriate places, I then hooked up the new server to all of the family computers. Now everyone can obtain all the shared files on the server from anywhere in the house. Additionally, I hooked up my wife and daughter so that they can manage their webpages through the same connection - much easier than the way they were doing it before using SSH tunnels.
In the midst of wrapping that project we started the next, that being to excavate the boys' bedroom from beneath its piles of junk, papers, pencils, laundry, toys and junk. The accumulation is astounding. More pencils and pens than I knew existed. Money (I've made 28 cents so far!). Dishes. Batteries. And enough shaped plastic objects to swell landfills across the nation.
That project is about halfway done. This weekend we'll probably wrap it up, leaving the boys in a temporary and extremely unusual state of organization. Meanwhile, we're starting on the next project - washing all the laundry that came out of the boys' room!
Yes, spring has come early to Minnesota, and so has Spring Cleaning - driving everything in this household towards some temporary semblance of order.
Posted by Albatross at March 2, 2005 2:17 PM