The Life of Lou Ruppert

I’m still reviewing my notes from 2007. As of five minutes ago, I’m finished with May. Looking over a year’s notes is a great way to get a big picture perspective on how long things sometimes take. I realize now that we began our search for an IDS (Intrusion Detection System) setup back in April of 2007. That’s ten months of trying different products, tinkering with rules, juggling licenses, studying packets and flow data, packing and unpacking boxes, and so on. Finally, today, I got the new licenses to install and our system is live. Now we have all new questions, like what policies we’ll enforce to start with, what we can mix and match with what, etc. It’s a new season. We couldn’t have rushed it into existence any more than Winter can rush Spring.

Without notes, and the time line view they offer, each day would seem to be a self-contained capsule of pointlessness, as insulated from cause and effect as a sitcom episode is from the others in the series. Work without end is the torture of Sisyphus, but life doesn’t have to be like that. The little things we do every day, and the work that’s not finished when we go to bed still gets us somewhere. That’s a nice thing to remember.

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