Back at my job, and doing my best to avoid all work!

So I’ve been back at work since yesterday, and well, this sucks.

What’s weird is that I would come in, and after a few hours I would just feel completely drained, like something in the air was sucking the life force out of me. I’m not imagining it either, almost didn’t go on vacation in fact because I always felt drained. But I actually felt better and healthier too the moment I started my vacation, even on a diet of ice cream and ‘boigas’, that is of course, until I came home and started working again.

Maybe there’s something in the air here, some allergen that plays life force suckage on me. I don’t know.

But for the past 2 days I’ve been ignoring my job and instead been working up a to-do list of sorts so I can get better prepared for my next trip. Which includes getting a new GPS device.

So here’s where I’m at, which I’m sure will interest absolutely no one but me: I have to decide between getting a more traditional GPS device (from Garmin likely) or I can go a more nonconventional route by getting a GPS addon for my iPod Touch, then getting a navigation app from the Apple store (such as Navigon). I’d prefer this route because it would save on having to get yet another gadget, and since I take my iPod everywhere with me, I won’t have to worry about a GPS in the car attracting would be thieves who carry big lead pipes and have far too much time time on their hands.

Only trouble is, there’s only one GPS module on the market that I know of that’s available now, and it requires that your iPod be jailbroken, along with lots of other finagling in order to finally get it working right. Eventually there’s supposed to be two possible solutions coming out soon: one being a TomTom car dock that will have GPS built in, and another possible GPS module to be released in November by Dual Electronics. There’s no indication at all as to how well either of these will work, if they will at all. Assuming they did work though, then the only downside I see is the lack of bluetooth features that GPS devices sometimes have, so I can use my cell phone hands free while driving.

So I have the option of waiting to see how these future GPS modules will work on an iPod Touch, or getting a Garmin now. For Garmin I have been looking specifically at their nuvi 265WT and nuvi 765T models. Although… assuming the iPod solution doesn’t work out, I may go for a nuvi 500, a multifunction GPS that would allow me to participate in a beautiful thing called geocaching (which I’ll write about at length in a future post.)

Other than that, I’m planning to completely dump the built-in gallery on my blog this weekend, and integrate Flickr into it instead via a plugin. While on vacation, it occurred to me that Flickr provides a great way to upload videos and pictures from my cell phone on the fly, something I was trying to do on my own with mixed results (photos uploaded ok, but my first video upload garnered an epic FAIL.) If I can integrate Flickr into my blog without killing myself in the process, it would allow me to save tremendously on bandwidth and keep my photos centralized for easier management and viewing online. Please light a candle for me this weekend, so I can pull this off without losing my sanity in the process.

And of course, I do this all for you, my beloved audience, so that you may all share in the joys and wonders that is my life. :innocent:

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5 Responses to “Back at my job, and doing my best to avoid all work!”

Vince wrote a comment on October 23, 2009 @ 01:56:pm
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You probably have a sick building. Check the air ducts is there any dust clinging to the grates? Is there carpet? Are there a number of women with as many different perfumes?

Lincoln Adams wrote a comment on October 23, 2009 @ 03:15:pm
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It could be all the mouse poo nearby. The building definitely violates several health codes, but there’s little I can do about it. I better buy extra cans of Lysol this weekend.

Tom wrote a comment on October 23, 2009 @ 04:27:pm
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I experienced the life drainage thing where I use to work too. It stems from the fact that you would rather be somewhere else and that the only reason you are there is to pay your bills.

This can be exacerbated by not having any coworkers that you like to talk to. Usually when you like your coworkers talking to them throughout the day can relieve and soften the life suckage that is a job you don’t like.

I started working for myself as a web publisher and though the money is coming in very very slow for me at the moment, I know it will gradually build. But a greater benefit for me is the fact that I no longer feel any life suckage (well, as long as I’m not around family, lol).

Being able to wake up every morning to the knowledge that today’s success rests squarely on my shoulders and that what I am doing is something I actually want to do is terrific.

Hopefully one day you will find this sort of control and peace in your life linc.

Speaking of which I’m sending you and update to your email.

P.S. take the above advice at your own risk, lol

Lincoln Adams wrote a comment on October 23, 2009 @ 11:42:pm
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I hope to experience that sort of control too, it is in fact my dream to someday life off my blog completely so I never have to feel like I’m trapped in one place again. :silly: