It’s finally here and I cannot believe it. I’ve been waiting for this for a long-long time.
We started illuria Security on… wait let me check.
$ whois illuriasecurity.com | grep -i creation
Creation Date: 2018-05-15T16:51:31Z
Creation Date: 2018-05-15T16:51:31.00Z
Ah yes, more than 3 years now. I never had a vacation since we started the company.
Every time I told myself “Okay, you will have relax time during the weekend” I ended up coding, if not for the company software then at least for something related to it. A patch in rc.d here, a shell script there.
But now, I’ve grown (I think), I finally know the value of the self. If I’m not good, then the company is not good, if I’m tired, then the company will be tired.
So, for once, all of the co-founders decided to take a proper vacation. We are all still online, because that’s what the world expects from us these days, but at least I’m not coding in Elixir or writing Shell.
Here are some thing that I wanted to do for a LONG time.
- Fix my ZNC server and migrate my own channels to Libera.Chat.
- Clean up my hard drives and setup ZFS backup pools and TimeMachine.
- There are backups of my home server but I’ve NEVER tried to restore them. Time to open the Schrödinger’s cat’s box and see the results.
- Fix my email servers that I run for communities. God knows how many TLS certificates are there to update.
- Think about the redundancy of this weblog, but that’s a story for another day.
9 days of vacation after 3 years doesn’t seem much, but I promised myself that I will NOT do this again. Hopefully I will have a proper 7 day vacation after 5-6 months like a normal human being.
It’s very COVID-y on Earth, but at this part of Earth, Armenia, COVID-19 pretty much does not exists. No one wears masks, very few are vaccinated, night-life is all on and internal tourism is on fire. So we ended up going to Switzerland Dilijan, away from all the noise, always raining, never complaining about traffic and almost every corner has a coffeehouse that serves latte.
Take care of yourself folks, it’s okay to write that code a day later, send that email 12 hours late, but the time you spend not taking care of yourself will be spent 10x more later. It’s like legacy code.
This will also give you time to think about… life.
That’s all folks…