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Just about everything I’m doing (or trying to do) involves waiting on something else right now.

I’m sure this means that I’m supposed to make use of this time for something else: getting organized, filing receipts, catching up on past debt, and other acts of completion for my past. But they all seem so menial compared to something bigger that I just don’t get; seems like more should be happening. Faster.

Currently I’m waiting to figure out my moving plans: where I’m moving to, how I’m getting everything there, how to leave everything I’m leaving – behind; work plans: how to do a host of technical things beyond my knowledge no matter how many people I ask, web tutorials and books I look into; baby plans: will our insurance cover everything, will it be born healthy, etc.; applications to be reviewed and approved; and a million other things.

It’s much like the game of limbo: never knowing how far you’ll need to bend to reach one’s goals, but I’ve always been naturally flexible so I’m sure I’ll just keep bending to each new thing.

A Practical Guide to Red Hat Linux: Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (3rd Edition) by Mark G. Sobell

From Program to Product: Turning Your Code into a Saleable Product (Expert’s Voice) by Rocky Smolin

The Coming Convergence: Surprising Ways Diverse Technologies Interact to Shape Our World and Change the Future by Stanley Schmidt

It’s so disappointing to have some of your most loved and well-used sites going down repeatedly.

Not just here and there, but we’re talking multiple times, if not hours at a time, near daily. You’d think with the amount of use these sites get and the love their patrons have for them that they could find a scalable solution that actually works.

Sure would be nice. It’s gotten so bad this week that I’m spending most of my idle/networking time on I dare say it…Facebook.

So be it I guess. Maybe those other sites can get a clue take a cue or two from them.

So I got engaged last night.

An hour and a half long discussion about travel, plans, new life, etc. escalated into a full-on proposal to Tristan. I figured it would happen sooner or later. It was pretty cool ’cause we were laying in bed talking about everything we usually talk about, like we do at times (both Capricorns and worry a lot .

Anyway, so I started from my back, to my side, then next thing I knew I was rolling over her side to the floor beside her (we’re currently living in a place the size of a shoebox and since she’s claustrophobic, I get to sleep sandwiched between her and the wall), all Ninja-like of course. Then, next thing I knew I progressed from talking on super-evolved states and what not, while standing, to kneeling on one knee and asking her to get married.

And that was that. Um, almost.

The coolest part was that I did it by the light of the (nearly) full moon and instead of your standard blood diamond ring (still working on the right fair trade diamond ring…I’m really picky , I wove one with magical, love energy.

It was totally sweet.

Incidentally, an engagement according to Ninjawords states:

“engagement
(n) : an appointment, especially to speak or perform; connection or attachment
“the lecturer has three speaking engagements this week.”

Interesting choice of words to describe something so meaningful to most people, heh?

It’s been almost three weeks since the LIB build-out, two and a half weeks since I officially learned I’m gonna’ be a dad, a week and a day since I returned from LIB and, it’s a week into our move at Distinctivefabric.com.

Well, I think this last stretch has really taken the cake…as far as my regular scheduling antics are concerned, these few details have all been chock full, round-the-clock, full-on, life-changing things; things certainly do unfold in three’s.

The new fabric base of ops is coming along really nicely, so much so that I’ve been pleasantly surprised to see a renewed interest in it’s livelihood not unlike the early days, it’s really been fun. And when I haven’t been plowing through the tasks here at our new space (co-housed w/the rest of the Catalyst gang), I’ve been tackling the early steps of pregnancy with Tristan. It’s not been ’till just yesterday that I could start to take a few minutes and address some post-LIB tasks…looking forward to the post-wrap-party-thing coming up.

And now finally, I’m headed off tomorrow for my first on-site visit to the solar hosting provider I’m running my Green Gurus dedicated server out of. I’ll be headed down tomorrow mid-day with Ryan Wartena for a fun inspection of their ops and a little powwowing with the crew there at AISO, hoping to dive back into the solar hosting biz early next week and knock out some major issues before leaving early next month for Portugal, for another Do LaB job.

Realistically, these days will soon come to pass as memory at least a little while anyway with the pregnancy coming on strong and then delivery and child care.

Humph. Strange days indeed…curious to watch it all unfold.

p.s. oh yeah: was gonna’ try to ramp up some things with the Collective Council this month too…hmm, we’ll have to see about that.