The Life of Lou Ruppert

Here is an overview of the good and bad of 2009 as I remember it:

Finished all the Arabic classes my local university offers.
Got my GCFA Certification from SANS. That should add a second line of consulting income, if I market it..
Grew a successful garden.
Got more comfortable with people.
Built my own TV antenna.
Traced the Ruppert [...]

I’ve been playing a lot with virtualization this past year. The update to Ubuntu Karmic Koala busted the OpenVZ setup I had on one of my machines, so I have been trying to look at LXC and XEN while I wait for their developers to release a kernel modern enough to work with Ubuntu [...]

Happy Easter, everyone.
I had a fun time today. An old friend who I once let stay with me returned to church today. It took me most of the service to remember his name! I hadn’t seen him in a few years, so my brain had put his name into storage, and I [...]

I had a great day today. I slept in until around 8am. I studied Arabic vocab until the noon church service today, and then I hung out with the people who wanted to hang out afterwards. We have an odd cliquishness amongst some of the people I know, which unfortunately played out [...]

I watched TV for a couple hours last night, and took a long lunch today. (Normally I eat it at my desk while reading blogs and wikipedia.) The nagging question I have is whether that counts as wasted time, since I’m behind on my projects as it is, and am always complaining about [...]

I wrote my first complaint letter tonight. A local supermarket seems to have a security compromise that resulted in me getting spam email to the account I created for my shoppers club card. They didn’t answer the email complaint I made a few weeks ago, so I wrote them an actual paper letter [...]

Despite being behind schedule from a busy day of working at half capacity due to some cold or allergy that’s been killing my sinuses, I still found time to talk to my mom on the phone tonight. So many people blow off friends and family in order to squeeze out an extra ten or [...]

I finally got my invitation written for my annual Dandelion Wine party. Each spring we introduce the previous year’s wine at a party that takes place a week or two before the dandelions bloom. Last year, I experimented with making a written invitation to hand out to friends and acquaintances, and it was [...]

I didn’t make it online last night because I was busy decluttering my living room and dining room. It is so good to be able to sit on my couches again and to not have to tiptoe over boxes on the floor! I put on some good music and just decided to work [...]

Sometimes we just need to count what we’ve gotten done instead of obsessing over what we didn’t get to. Things keep coming up that bump the things I’d planned, but I still end the day ahead of where I started. I like that. Today I may not have done any homework, and [...]