marydell | Coming up for air

We finished our last major move event at work--number 9--as we move our data centers out of our old corporate headquarters building, and the second building we had overflowed into over the years, and into our new fancy-schmancy building. This meant consolidating two data centers into one, and taking the opportunity to update and streamline and replace everything possible. The result is a very nice, state-of-the art data center with lots of redundancy and reliable, clean systems. And a very, very, very exhausted IT department. I still have a lot more to do, because the old creaky stuff has to be decommissioned and so forth, but the really stressful parts are done. My recent comp time has been spent on useful things like going to the doctor, meeting a lawyer to get wills made (now that we're parents it seems prudent to have a will), and doing laundry. Tuesday I have another comp day (because of having worked all day Saturday) and I plan to spend 100% of it on Dragon Age: Origins. Since this game, unlike many RPGs of its type, does not have an alignment slider to control its moral system, I don't have to worry that letting my little guy go to day care as usual instead of keeping him home for some quality mommy time, simply so I can play a video game, is evil. I'm going to call it an ambiguous moral choice and be totally ok with it. Hey, he likes day care! And he's got me to himself all day today (once he wakes from his nap)! And Dragon Age: Origins is awesome! Yesterday I got to kill a rapist and all of his guards, and walk around with their blood all over my wedding clothes. The coolest bit was that when his guards were menacing my (female) character, preparing to drag me off to their boss, my (male) cousin shows up with a giant sword...and tosses it to me so I can kill the guards, since I'm the badass in the family.

So I'm ok with stealing a day for my very own on Tuesday...very, very ok with it.