Wish-A, Could-A, Should-A

Lately I find myself wishing for easier days, less all-nighters, less having to be late to things/cancel out on things because of servers, etc. but it’s the field I am in, and until my income can support an employee or two it’s just me, and I imagine it’ll be me even after some folks are on-board, because for some this type of work is a job, for me it’s a mission.

My blessing/curse is knowledge of a lot of things, not saying I am some super genious, but I know a lot of odd things about many topics, music, art, programming, design, construction, electronics, wiring, networking, computers, yada yada yada, but one thing that has always been my first love is Music, part of the reason I’d love to have a G5 tower or iMac, so I could setup a nice audio station with my mAudio keystation, and actually get some more things down in Garageband, and a copy of Photoshop/Ilustrator CS2 to start pursing Art & Design again, but just always feels like I don’t ever have the time - but I am always hopeful, I even grabbed a copy of The Zen of CSS Design, trying to pick up a few design concept ideas.

There just seems to be some reason I am doing hosting, it’s not for the pay, lol trust me - this will be the first year that I show any level of real profit, which is nice - but it’s still not enough to entirely fund what desire for life - but the nice thing about the stability of my business as it has grown these past 5 years is that I am a more “Stable” name, people know me, they know I’ll get things fixed, they know I’ll get things done - so hopefully this next year I can get a few more big jobs and get some spare cash squared away in savings/CD/whatever, be nice to have some extra cash on hand.

I can’t complain about it all though, I am blessed, 5 servers this year, maybe 9 by next year, but already over 11 if you count client servers I work on, on a regular basis - servers are fun, stressful, and irritating have to fix logrotate & logwatch on the newest production box, some perl modules are broken - but that’s the joy but who knows, my design/art/music fun may come back in time, maybe get some cash saved up and get that iMac G5, load up iLife and go for it… time will tell. well back to it.