I’m still feeling ridiculously busy, even though work is pretty quiet because it’s Spring Break. There are many projects that we’re finalizing at work, and more along the way.
We finally got around to finishing up dovecot testing w/ various e-mail clients, two weeks ago. Vasantha and I put the new dovecot in place on Sunday while Aaron & Sarah updated out core network infrastructure, things look good. Aaron is on schedule to replace our routing core tonight.
Regarding Dovecot, there was a moment where we though we might have had to update / patch our mail server, however we were able to get around that. We’ll probably have no alternative but to patch our mail server once it comes time to update sendmail. We did eventually discover an issue w/ the subscriptions list, but we were able to work around it pretty quickly. Like I said, things look good.
On the home front, Mali and I have finished phase 2 of our kitchen redo. We’ve both been working pretty hard the last couple of weeks putting it all together. We still have to put down our floating floor, but that will wait until later this week.
Part of the reason that I feel so stressed and busy is that I also have a lot of ideas regarding some house related projects that I would like to undertake, in addition to my regular work during the week.
I’d like to begin planning on the initial stages to plan out the back yard and build a few planters for Mali’s garden. I’ve been thinking about making some kind of book shelving monstrosity for the library/study/lounge. Then there is the fact that we’re rearranging the layout and purpose of the rooms we initially setup.
The “Entertainment Room” is going to be converted into a formal dining room and the “Entry Room / Grand Room” is going to be converted into a formal grand room / living room. Both of these require moving the TV. My TV is broke and so I have to see about getting it fixed or simply getting rid of it. It would be ashamed to not be able to get some money for it. Additionally, there doesn’t appear to be any way to move it into the living room w/o complicating the layout of the furniture, so it might just have to go away.
Our library / study / lounge will continue to be just that. Eventually, we’ll need to rearrange the things that are in there and figure out what to do with the rest of the room. I’m pretty certain that all of these will take more time to accomplish that we anticipate. We’ll just have to see how much we can get done this summer / year.
We had a big party this Sunday to celebrate our new kitchen an a few birthday parties. We made another huge batch of tamales w/ the help of some friends. We’re all talking about possibly making more tamales later this month.
Always a blast,
–Raf