I'm in that state I predicted would occur where there are 10 things happening in my brain that I would write about, except, I can't focus on one of them. Rather than giving up, I'm pushing through. And that means this could be the most disjointed thing I've ever written.
Where to start.
Netflix, Tim Minchin, Bear, Unix, Excessive Glee love, black clothes, ode to grey, Eeyore love, Karelia
Oops, I totally spaced out. I think those are all the things I've started to write about or have thought about. I could try to knock them off one at a time. In order? Some cross over though... Karelia and bear. Eeyore and grey. Separate but related.
I'm just gonna knock out Unix cause that one is easy (if not particularly interesting, which is another reason to hurry it along and shove it out of my brain.)
Why did I want to write about Unix? Because I turned a corner! A big one, but in a very small way.
I hate Unix. It drives me nuts that I have to do so much of my work on Unix, but I've been gradually getting used to it. I occasionally know what to put after gawk and grep. I have used vim. I think I kinda know what '{ -v -b $ are, but beyond that I get clueless fast. Its amazing how easily you can figure out how to do simple things with google.
But that's not really the point. Although its good that I kinda sorta sometimes know what I'm doing without hand-holding. My little eureka moment came when I needed to do something, and, being a Mac girl I considered doing it on my computer, but then I would have had to upload it on to the server. This doesn't sound like much but it made me go 'ugh' and then it occurred to me that I could do this simply and easily with Unix commands directly on the server, and promptly did so.
A choir of angels sang above my head and my smile was beaming. I actually thought 'That would be so much easier to just do in Unix.' And indeed it was.
A month ago, maybe 2 weeks ago, I would have said that such words would never, ever, enter my little brain. But it is stretching
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