Finding motivation lately has been more challenging than usual. My posts about perl have grown further apart. I have mostly slowed down working on my pet projects. I haven’t been reading my Perl related blogs anymore. Even writing this entry seems forced and unnatural. I hope this post is not picked up by the Ironman Perl planet due to the complete lack of any substantial content.

Don’t be mistaken, I am still interested in all of these things. I have a stack of interesting modules that I want to clean up and release. My feed reader is chock full Ironman Perl entries. I have 2 unfinished posts about Perl 5.

There are several reasons for my recent sloth. The summer is drawing to a near. I have a large list of honey-do items that need to be done around the house. Worst of all, I am working lots of overtime for some projects that are perpetually behind schedule and over-budget.

On the positive side, I have spent a majority of my summer learning about compilers, programming languages, and parsing grammars. I was really taken by the Topaz project, which has been a source of inspiration. I was also very impressed with the PGE presentation and discussion at the Parrot Virtual Machine Workshop.

I have exceeded my ability to maintain my attention about my own blog post. I’d say more about my next post but I just want to stop typing.

I don’t really have anything to blog about right now, but I did want to just say that I am still around and as busy as ever. School has started once again; I have class on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7-8:15pm and Sunshine has class on Mondays from 7-10pm. I’m also officially on “mandatory overtime,” which to you lucky stiffs in the non-government sector means nothing. To me, it means “we want the whole department to work overtime to pull in contract sales faster, so we want you to do 10% extra a month.”

On top of all of that, we are in the process of buying a house. I’ll do another write-up this weekend about my experiences doing so, since there may be some other first-timers out there who’d like a scientists’ point of view.

Anyways, I’ve got a few posts scheduled for the weekend. I also have regular maintenance on erebus scheduled (cleaning, updates, security, etc). Lastly, I am going to update zero-blog and finish setting up the photography section already. I’ve been screwing around with that for a year and it’s time I just hurried up with it (I spent the few hours organizing and labeling my photots, so I don’t have any good excuses not to finish).

Don’t touch that dial; it’s a three day weekend coming up!