Ordered pizza last night, watched Capote, and played a ton of video games, until about 3am. I’d say that’s a great first vacation day.

Today should be a bit more productive: Working on the 350z and various little annoyances with it, potentially getting a haircut, and attempting to locate an Amp Tradin’ Paint energy drink in the area, at the recommendation of Mike.

I habitually started to check my work email, just before catching myself and closing everything.

That… is terrible.

I officially started vacation. Turned on my “out of office auto-reply” on my work email, turned off my work cell phone, unplugged power on my VOIP phone here at home that I use for work, and told my boss “over and out”, then signed out of my company MSN Messenger account.

July 5th seems to far away, but I know it’s just around the corner. At least now I have the time to blog about things that I have been procrastinating for a while, like my 10TB project, the carputer project, and potentially buying a new car (but probably no time soon).

Well, I’ll keep posting, so keep coming back to read updates.

I moved back into a house that I used to live in years ago. In anticipation of the move, I decided to redesign my desk and work area, and name it Computer Command Center; CCC or C3 for short. Here’s a quickly put-together panorama of everything:

From left to right: Xbox 360 controllers, fan (temporary), Xbox360 + games/headset, VOIP desk phone for work, 24″ Dell monitor, Saitek keyboard, IBM T43 laptop, front-left speaker and headphones, Logitech G9 mouse, 8 port Netgear gigabit switch, Saitek Cyborg keyboard, 30″ Dell monitor, another Logitech G9 mouse, misc office/computer stuff, PS2 controller, desktop computer, and a whopping 10TB external RAID enclosure. Also, directly behind where I sit is my drum set, for banging away the frustrations that I encounter, daily, when working.

The desk is a combination of pieces from Ikea. The setup wasn’t supported by their “customization”, so I had to do a bit of grunt work to get everything to fit properly in the space provided. It’s a huge desk, tons of space for me to work and play, and it’s exactly what I wanted.

I’m aware there are some graphical errors in the panorama stitching, and I’m too lazy to retake the pictures and restitch in CS4.

… two IT people’s frustration level goes up a few notches.