The Book of Ashes
Legend in his own mind, creator of all you see here, he walks this Earth on the path of the becoming.
On Tuesday, 21, June 2011 Ashes wrote...
Holidays 10:48AM
Technically I'm on holiday, but it doesn't feel that different from being at work. I still get up before 7am, drop Ellie off at Mandies for the morning, then sit in front of the computer and code. I've got a (never-ending) list of tasks and house-work to do so two weeks off will not be enough (it never is).
Its great tho and really its very different, I get to play around with things I'm interested in, rather than somebody elses tasks. Enjoying redeveloping this site (added an RSS feed yesterday) and discovering .Net MVC. Great to have a tidy house and catch up on some house work and absolutely loving the extra time spent with Ellie, she's really getting into the games and playing age which is cool, we have fun. Really it makes you think though, why do we work at all?
The after effects of my cold are still hanging around like an unwanted bogey, the weather outside matching the cold. Power bill is going to be higher this week (with me at home) but lunches are much cheaper (baked bean toasted sandwhiches). Probably an even trade off.
So a conclusion I came to a long time ago now is that I (and anyone really) is capable of (being excellent at) most things. It just comes down to time/passion/investment you put into that thing, be it sports, maths, your work, research, whatever. Given this as true we're left with what we then choose to be excellent at (if we choose anything at all). I've always thought I don't want to be only good at one thing, e.g. writing, at the expense of everything else. I'd like to be good at everything. But you can't dedicate enough time to everything to be good at everything and you just end up an all-rounder at lots of things. Its frustrating...
Anyway, todays thoughts, Ultimate Frisbee, Compression Algorithms, Data Mining Facebook.