have been really busy today
Today, unlike most days, i have achieved something. Yesterday was also similar. I had to rebuild the my laptop. Re-load all the software, restart my life!
My laptop, is probably most worthy work tool that i have with me nowadays. I lug it along with me every day, day in and day out. Its my paraphernalia.
I work as a Solution Architect and a major percentage of my time goes into prescribing the best practices, right way of solving problems and well...solving problems. One morning, i went to my client office, started unpacking my bag and setting up my laptop. This thought struck me...what is the difference between a fortune teller and me?
A fortune teller, sits in the bazaar, has a set of tarots and has his parrot that picks up a card at random. I have a laptop, i have a stack of tarots (patterns) that i save in a part of my brain, i have experience (which is my parrot) that picks up the right pattern for the problem at hand. Most of the times my parrot is not as lucky as the fortune tellers parrot as it has to work on an infinite set of tarots that are getting added to the stack over time. My laptop is my gateway to the world of information and my tool for communication.
Enough of horse manure...you say...lets come back to my story as i originally began writing it...
My laptop due to indiscriminant abuse (loading softwares and mostly beta stuff) was getting bogged down, its precious processing cycles were getting eaten up by myriad of software pieces, remnants of old programs that wont go away, programs that i always wanted to know more about but never found the time to know, programs that i never know existed on my laptop, programs that i was planning to use, programs that i used...overall a shitload of programs!!!
So this day i decided to give a fresh lease of life to the laptop...cleaned up the laptop and loaded carefully only what i wanted to load. Once its done, i see a fresh glisten whenever i start it up. I used to boot it up earlier...now the laptop seems to smile at me every time she starts.
That gives me a sense of achievement...i have managed to give a new lease of life to a seemingly inanimate object, and, that objects responds favourably!amazing isnt it?
Thats why i get this feeling of achievement!
