Absence, mixed messages of motivation and finding a balance

Hey there,

It's been a long long time, and I'm mad and sad about that. No really.

I started this as an outlet to share some of the stuff that I've done with either my home setup or stuff that is tangentially connected to my everyday work. and I was doing pretty good with keeping up with that ... In the beginning.

Then the COVID-19 quarantine began. I found myself with so much extra time on my hands. But, that didn't translate well for getting things done. I found myself at the end of the work day spending less time at my desk playing with things. When I did go back to my desk, it was to play video games far into the wee hours of the night. There's been days where the only energy I had was to walk my dog and cook some food.

It's sucked.

There's been a few things since March that I've wanted to write about. I've made a lot of work generating the research for the posts, though there's been no motivation to continue with the actual writing of the posts. Honestly that's the thing that makes me the most mad. I get gung-ho, and then nothing.  I'm hoping to slowly work into back into maybe a post every few weeks. I have some things I really want to share. I have a few things dealing with Systemd, Ansible and Terraform, and a few things taken from work dealing with Python and Jenkins. The work related items I'll be doing are mostly to share the 'hacks' that we are doing to transition scripts from bash to python for some freestyle jobs and ditching as much groovy we can in Pipeline jobs, I'll cover some of the reasons when I do that post (hint: it's partially because we aren't building pipelines for stage restartability).

In quarantine, like many others, I found a new outlet for my time. No it wasn't baking. I started streaming. I don't have plans to make it a career, but it's been a nice way to repurpose my nightime gaming into something a little more productive. I've dabbled with the idea of doing technical or coding streams, but I need to figure out how much prep to do ahead of time.

So yeah.....

Take this as me putting in some more effort into updating this blog more. Look for a really long article about systemd sometime in the netxt 2 weeks. It's tangentially work related, but it mirrors a lot of the internet's view about systemd.