Tired / getting ready to take off

Ok, so it is almost 2AM. Unlike many of you, this is not an usual hour to see me awake - I am a nice wake-up-at-8, sleep-at-12 guy. But this last couple of weeks have been hectic, and this is the culmination of the fscking process. Shit, no, it’s not yet the culmination… Tomorrow I’ll have to make a quick space to do some UPN work, which I have left aside for most of the week… At UNAM, things are going well. I have a couple of systems ready to be used, my institute already has a half-decent network presence and infrastructure, I am generating all of the statistics I was asked… Some stuff still pending to be installed and/or programmed, but anyway, the ship’s moving. Also, I am very happy I got the DGSCA security group to reactivate the Admin-UNAM seminaries (after at least three years we had the last one). Today we had this seminar, we had a full auditorium, ~120 people (who were told to come with less than a week notice, which certainly sucks as much as being told by your boss you have to go, because the official invitation letter is not just signed by anybody but by DGSCA’s general director… Anyway, I tried to do things more informal and with more time, but I don’t run the show. I hate bureaucratic thought). We presented 8 hr of talks regarding perimetral security - I did the first 2hr, a very general introduction to the topic. The real nice part? Tomorrow evening I will board a plane, and Saturday evening I’ll be in Helsinki. Of course, last-minute-chaos bit me - I have a couple of pending patches to Comas, and didn’t have a recent enough version to hack on on my laptop - And we had no network at admin-unam. Ok, run back to the institute, cvs update, bring in a couple of extra useful packages, run back, start typing like crazy. 5PM, attention divided between the code and the talks. (BTW, has any of you ever tried to set up a Windows Internet Security Accelerator or something like that? The Microsoft firewall/proxy thingy. Man, I am glad I had never seen it before. I am more glad even I never will again. It’s so damn complicated! Give me my iptables and shut up). Interrupt coding at least 20 times, as I was also commenting on the talk with my friend Turbo, who came from Temixco (little over 1hr away from Mexico City) for the Admin-UNAM Well… In the end, the clock is nearing 2AM. I am surrounded by four of my cats - Santa, Marabunta, Chupchic and Tin Tan. I finally have a working implementation of the (user view of the) volunteers functionality on Comas. Dirty as hell, I fear, so I don’t think I’ll integrate it ever on our main branch… But at least the ideas can be useful. No, you cannot yet sign up as volunteers, as I want to look at the diff without half of my working neurons trying to keep my eyelids open ;-) Don: I owe you incorporating your patch… Have not had time to check it. Once again, I hope I’ll be able to do it tomorrow, although the day prior to a one-month absence will probably be impossible. Amaya: I just remembered about Héctor’s tortillero… I think I won’t make it :-( But I’ll ask my wife, as she is most-probably going to meet me some days later in Finland, to get one along with her. And, no, that silly smile of yours is not only yours :) Aigars: As you are quite active on the anti-software patents scene: Are we planning some sort of something to be held in Finland on the day prior to the banana vote? (July 7, IIRC) We will be quite an impressive crowd of knowledgeable people for the reporters to admire! ;-) Anyway… I’m off to the bed. See you in HEL!