Date: 2011-12-01 21:25:54 Created: 2011-12-01 16:09:41
The logical side of me knows that
calendrically
yes, it is December.
The whole rest of me has yet to catch up and truly realize that it is almost 22 to Christmas and a whole arkload of things could, and in many cases should, be done before then.
Oh, I do a lot of stuff. Lately, I have been very satisfied with how I choose to spend my time and focus on things. But for best feeling come Christmas Eve, it would not be at all bad if some of those holiday-ish things got through the wall of focus and got some attention.
Yeah, we will see how that goes.
Tonight, in something of a surprise move, I some of my furniture around. I recently got myself a Mac mini which lives on the TV bench, and now I am starting to feel certain that the transfer of necessary content from Aura (my Imac) is complete. Thus, I disconnected Aura, put it in a closet and found myself with an empty work-type table surface.
An early thought was to get rid of that table and desk chair completely, but I still think I will like and use a corner for desk work so I pushed that thought onto the storage stack. Instead I shuffled my TV bench and all the stuff around it a few steps to the right, brought an armchair into the bedroom and moved the table and chair across the room.
It is not an ideal setup. Both the bedroom and the living room feel a bit more crowded. On the other hand, they feel so in a kind of cosy way. But more importantly, the change has turned those two corners into places to sit. Working or reading or whatever in a new position tends to give a whole different perspective on and feel for a room. So unless the appearance really starts to bother me somehow I am likely to stick with this at least until these corners start to feel like the same old places to be.
With the transfer to the mini, my home computing setup has changed quite a bit. I am not sure where it will all land, but this is how things stand as of tonight. The mini is connected to the TV and stereo. It has all the things I previously had on Aura, and so holds all my data, media libraries, mail and so on. I do not have any keyboard or mouse connected at the moment, controlling music playback through Apple's Remote app for IOS and any other stuff I need to control through screen sharing solutions. Tonight I bought Screens, which is an excellent VNC client for IOS, and have had great fun using it to control the mini.
My Macbook air remains my main keyboard, for whenever I want to write something. Be it code or any other kind of text. As the mini is actually the more powerful machine - and has a much more spacious screen to boot - I assume I will feel tempted to do development on it too at some point. But before that happens I will probably need to get myself some nicer wireless keyboard and mouse, as stringing USB cables across the room is just too uncomfortable and bothersome to even my limited sense of aesthetics.
The whole shift has already paid off in my music listening. Now that playback control is only a tap or two on my phone away, and the sounds come out of nice speakers without needing to have a humming desktop computer in some corner, I have had a lot more background music to my evenings. Otherwise my music listening goes very much in waves, and I often need to actively remind myself to put something on so that I tend to have silence as my aural background more often than not. Not so anymore, at least not for now. Long live complicated hardware setups and their ability to improve your life.