Encouraging signs at World HQ
Posted on December 13, 2006
Filed Under All, Photos, My Brain |
Friend Mike’s kindness meant I was home a couple hours early so I got down to a project that’s been in the wings for awhile, namely my re-entry into ‘real’ life. Each laptop, pictured, has a different part of my life on it. My pre-tumor-news Adobe life is on the big laptop, my personal life since October 9 (writing and photos on Caltrain, N Judah etc.) is on the small, co-opted laptop and everything is now wired into the LAN.
I configured our G4 Mac Mini ’server’ as a wireless bridge to make it easier to begin moving files around both wired and wireless networks and I’m using the Intel Mini as my ‘aggregation’ workstation so spouse Linda can use the ‘Big Mac’ when she needs it in the PM. I drank green tea (on my nutritional oncologist’s ‘good’ list) and got down to business.
After frank talks with doctors, other cancer patients et al. I’ve decided that I’m just going to stick with my plans going forward, which include a family trip to Santa Fe for Christmas and a hoped-for re-entry to work in January. Radiation therapy ends Friday: there’s a chemotherapy consult coming up next week. If no unresolvable issue arises, I’m hoping to find a way to get back to work at Adobe in the new year, sooner, rather than later, Lord and anaplastic astrocytomas willing. So I spent some time today catching up, touching base with boss and colleagues, making to-do lists et al… felt good…
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thank you, Chris, for sharing all you and Linda are going through. This one was a real upper. Much love,
Chris:
I am glad you are going back at it.
The JPG of John Read you sent is very workable with a few different types of paper, and the printer in my office building is enthusiastic about rendering a good print.
He asked me of the work, and my interest in it, as he knows I am a Private Detective. So I told him about you, about Read, about Joe, about Chromos, my largely wasted youth.
He had seen an exhibit of photos taken in North Beach, depciting the Beat Scene of the early 1950s and was enthralled by the whole thing,
Sometimes until we talk of where we’ve been, whom we have known, what we’ve done with another, we do not know how rich a life can really be.
Godspeeed….
[…] The way things have gone lately, I have wondered when and even if the tide would turn. But, tonight, we caught a real break. I wrote about taking time to organize my various lives-on-a-laptop with an eye toward re-entry into the ‘real world.’ After I got everything networked, I backed up the small laptop (a former full-time work machine) - both it’s old work partition and the new personal partition I’ve been using since out on leave. […]
[…] So I start the new year more organized, able to find more stuff, thanks to things like Acrobat OCR of scanned paper docs that now show up when I search by keywords (or visually) in a Mac PDF browser called Yep. World HQ space has been designed to give me a space where I can set up my work laptop, hook it into an Apple 20-inch Cinema Display and with a nearby conference phone ‘attend’ meetings, plough through email and otherwise be productive and in touch with work. Indeed, my 2 busiest days since going back were spent working remotely - and productively - from World HQ. […]