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7/27/2013

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PictureThe front of the building. Inside, there seem to be guards
and badge readers everywhere, but the outside is
colorful and friendly.
Mid-week, I spent a couple of days in Oregon, getting to know Adobe's new data center.  Though it is dwarfed by the Intel facility just up the street, it is a very respectable facility, with a planned capacity of 7.5 megawatts.

As with everything Adobe does, the design is brilliant -- both in looks (as would be expected of Adobe) and in functionality (as would be expected of a world-class SaaS-maintaining IT organization).

Here are a few shots of the building, inside and out.

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No Time: And Plenty to Do

7/21/2013

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The knee is moving towards recovery pretty much as my physical therapist expects (though to me, it seems to be taking a long time).  Thankfully, I no longer need the crutches or knee brace for normal movement (though I'll be using a brace for more adventurous activities, like hiking, for a while).

As I'm recovering, there seems to be no shortage of things that need to be done.  At church, I'm a counselor in the ward bishopric, which takes my Sundays and one or two other nights per week.  My daughter is getting married in August (as seen on the Wedding page on this site)m which somehow seems to take time once in a while.  And I'm getting an IT 515R SysAdmin class ready to teach at BYU this fall, for which I still need to rework a couple of labs.  (I've also been asked to teach the Operating Systems class next Winter, which is totally awesome.)

This brings me to thinking about time management.  At work, I'm finding that my days are often sliced up by meetings, each of which gives me more to do.  The larger projects I work on tend to have long timelines and demand focus for long periods of time.  I think I need to work on being better at using small time slices.  

Using a ticketing system like Jira helps a bit, at least for tracking the work.  That sort of makes the work feel like queue work, which are usually lower-level request-response tasks.  So in some ways, it makes the large projects feel like workable-sized bits.  That helps with the "top dead-center"-feeling that you get on months-long projects that don't move much on any given day.
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