kirkcudbright | so, what else have you been doing?

The State of the Paul? I dunno, busy.

Right after the Cheyenne post, I went to California for a week. Few weeks later, I was in Philadelphia. (I was there the night they won the World Series, in a downtown hotel, and the street party was deafening, and went on until at least 2am.) Then last week, I was in Minneapolis for the IETF, the first one I've been to since 1991. I'm not going to Malta for the IETF Interim Meeting in January, because that's cancelled. And here I thought I might be travelling less, working for a 501(c)3.

And what is all this world travel for? For the job that's consuming my brain. It's not that it's more demanding than any other job at the same level, but I'm not really accomplished at working from home. I screw around, and end up working late nights and holidays, because my cow-orkers are everywhere from Amsterdam to Australia, and I've come unstuck in time.

One thing I've been working on is porting our DHCP code to OpenWrt, an open-source (Linux) platform for home routers. It's a cool platform, and it's given me lots of ideas for side projects that I don't have time for. But this work is just a jumping-off point for other stuff that I'll talk more about when it's further along.

I owe a lot of people a lot of mail, I know that, and I'm getting to it. Tomorrow is a work holiday (Buy Nothing Day), which means I won't be spending too much time on work...