I'm almost at the end of a three day weekend, a weekend with no kids, no wife and sadly enough no life.  The wife took all five kids to the lake for the weekend so that I could get caught up on some projects.  I managed to get as caught up as I could although I would have liked to have gotten more of a jump on some other tasks which, as always, will undoubtedly all become top priorities at the same time.

As it turns out, three days alone is a really long time.  I cleaned the ovens, the downstairs bathroom, ran the sweeper, cut the grass etc... just because I didn't know what to do with myself.  I spent most of the hours locked away in the Sandford and Son lab putting in about 20 hours of billable time before venturing off onto other projects.

I finally got a chance to update my router with the latest DD-WRT firmware (v24).  Much like the previous version, it Rocks!  If you have one of the many supported routers this is a must have!

I also finally got around to investing some money via the P2P lending site Prosper.  I only dropped a hundred bucks but I'll keep you posted to let you know how it works out.

I also order business cards from MOO.  I loved this company since I first heard about them but didn't like the mini card format.  Earlier this week they started offering full sized business cards so I placed an order.  Should be here in a week or so (they are based in the UK).

I'm currently in the process of getting my Vistafied laptop working again.  The whole Vista debacle pretty much bricked the machine.  It's a Sony Vaio with a broken DVD drive and since it can't boot from any USB device other than a detachable floppy drive, I've had no end of trouble getting it operational.  What I finally ended up doing was configuring my newly upgraded router and a VMWare Ubuntu machine to enable booting over the network via PXE.  22% and climbing.  So far so good.

I'm also half way through season 1 of BSG.  I got hooked somewhere around season 3 and I've just been waiting for the chance to catch up.  This has to be one of the best shows on TV and if you're a geek and you're not watching it you should be ashamed!

Next on my list is scripting the creation of VM images.  I can't wait to get that worked out!

Most guys if given a few days with no wife and kids would have gotten in a few rounds of golf or hit the road on their bike or at the very least down a few beers at a strip joint with their buddies.  Me?  I'm alone at midnight sitting in a room filled with computers basking in the seedy glow of a reincarnated sci-fi series giddy with anticipation over a progress bar reading 97% complete.  Yeah, I suck as a bachelor but I'm loving every minute of it.

TTFN