Exhausted

It’s been a tough week. One more day and I think I get a three day week­end. That’s a good thing.

I’m wear­ing more hats than I like at work, and I’m get­ting spread pret­ty thin. I’m set­ting up a web­serv­er to move our sites to, and as Poindex­ter For­tran likes to say, “beware a pro­gram­mer with a screw­driv­er.” In my case, I’m even far­ther from my core competency.

Today I dein­stalled MySQL 3.23 (I think) and installed 4.20 on a Fedo­ra Lin­ux box. The more I use Lin­ux the more I’m con­vinced it’s unsuit­ed for any­thing. Give me BSD or AIX any day. Lev­els of abstrac­tion should either be trans­par­ent or cre­ate actu­al ease of use. Using a script­ing lan­guage to man­age pack­age man­agers to pre­vent depen­den­cy con­flicts with soft­ware that does­n’t exist just seems stu­pid. So I break stuff if I grab tar­balls and install from source.

Some­time I’d like to hire a real sys­tem admin­is­tra­tor to take care of this stuff. That’s not hap­pen­ing soon tho.

Right now I just want to col­lapse and maybe sleep or maybe stare at the ciel­ing. I’m not sure I’ve got enough ini­tia­tive to watch TV even. I’d like to not be alone, too. I know it does­n’t work that way. “Let’s get togeth­er and not do any­thing” is a pret­ty uninvit­ing invi­ta­tion. I already tried it out on and she was unin­spired. If I’m lucky, she was­n’t actu­al­ly offended.