For the record I'd rather be sleeping. But I can't sleep. I've been planning to go back to writing for a long time anyway so here I am doing so albeit possibly against my will. Like I said: sleep. Rather be.

I'm starting to accept despite all intentions I'm not going to ever get back to writing regularly, am I? Well I have different plans this time. It's never turned out very well before. Writing-wise I mean. Whatever.

Ok so you know that least post from way back in October? Well that was way back. In October. Which seems redundant reading it again. But not that much has happened really. Still the same job. Hospital. Computers. Not sure there's a tunnel never mind a light for it to end in.

Except I did finally get transferred to a new hospital. This one quite close to where I live. Fifteen minutes actually. Yes, that one I mentioned in that last post. The one I never thought I would be near or had passed on an opportunity to be at. Something like that. I'm now there.

I was transferred for "two weeks" right before Christmas time. Maybe that was my trial period or something I don't know. Then in an email to my "project manager" I had said something about not only not complaining about switching hospitals but being a fan of such a switch. Next thing I know my two weeks goes to "you're there for the duration". Well, that was easy.

I would have tried to prepare more had I known that was going to be how it went. I mean I would have said like "bye" or whatever that last day. I just thought it was for the two weeks so I didn't bother.

Well the new hospital is alright. About as opposite as the first hospital as two places could be really. The first one was like go-go-go every second, all steressed-out. The new one is way smaller and has less going on. Mondays for instance my co-worker doesn't show up until 2:30 so I had nothing to do. Which was fine by me.

Well that was just for the first month. Now I actually do have stuff to do. Lucky me! It's all ill-defined and I can't tell if I'm doing it right but I am doing stuff. So there's that.

I was working with an older guy whose been doing this kind of work for "a while" as it were. He's got that attitude I've encountered many times before. That whole "I'm retiring in five years so who gives a flying !#$%" that soon-to-be-retired types seem to exhibit. Which isn't to say he doesn't get the job done. He does get job done. He just seems to have no fear and not give a !#$% if you know what I mean.

I don't know if I'll still be there after the hosptial's current project ends. I'd like to be causiously optomistic here but I've been rejected and heart broken so many times I really can't allow myself to get my hopes up too far. Part of me thinks I'd join the peace core for a year if I don't get this job permanent. Ah, me...in a foreign culture for a year. Not sure I'd survive that first week. I really feel like I should do something else with my life while I can. I'm kind of shriveling on the vine. Or something.

If I get the job I guess I'll go with that for a couple years. See what happens. At least until I can't join the peace core anyway. Why would I want to join the peace core anyway? I don't know.

Outside of work? I keep working on my various windows-related projects. I finally am running server 2003 as a workstation right now. There's been a few...challenges along the way. Finding a good freeware anti-virus for instance. Not so easy on a server system. And web sites detecting the OS and not loading content. Easily defeated (Firefox add-on called "user agent switcher") but still kind of an obstacle. I do like it though. I like it a lot.

I have now created an "unattended" folder which among other folders contains a "projects" folder containing folders for various OSes. Just XP MCE 2005 at the moment actually. But several projects of it. All projects are auto-synced to the "template" folder. This makes managing things a little easier. Just change whatever in the template and sync it with sync toy and all projects are updated. Very nice.

I did learn you can't "slipstream" SP3 into MCE. So, you know...take note. SP3...MCE...bad on the slipstreaming.

So I installed it as normal, looked at the updates for SP2 and slipstreamed what I could. Then installed SP3 and took note of those updates. After two weeks of screwing with it I was able to auto-mate the whole thing: install SP2 updates that couldn't be slipstreamed, install some MCE-related stuff, install all my apps, install Sp3 and finally install the SP3 updates. All without having to touch a thing. Took me forever. But I did it.

I've since decided I'm going to write out what I know (not here, some where else) and move on to some other project or interest for a while. Maybe reading/writing/programming? I don't know. Maybe I'll learn WordPress. Some MySQL type stuff. Maybe I'll try out some Vista stuff or server 2008. The number of things I could focus on is mind bottling. Or boggling.

Or I could start playing Fallout 3. That thing I bought last november that I still haven't really started. I'm just not that excited for some reason. I may as well go back into oblivion and start loading up a bunch of mods. That could be a fun couple of months right there. Then there's the mods for some older games like Freelancer. That could be fun. See? Bottling.

Well I'm barely going to be able to stand tomorrow whether I go to bed now or not. But I guess I'll give it another try. That whole sleep thing. Lets hope!