Well, originally thinking I was going to keep my site setup on my own EC2 in AWS didn’t quite work out as planned. Unfortunately, the cost caught up with me and I just don’t have the flexibility to maintain it. Very different when at work where I don’t have to be as worried about cost (also helps that what I’m setting up in AWS at work is one of the lowest cost applications at this time).

Instead of just shutting down the site, I migrated it back into my WordPress account. Honestly, that move when much smother then I expected. Even spent a little extra so I can bring my domain name over. Now, I just need to work on my site tweaks and refocusing on what it is I ultimately want to do. I have a unfortunate tendency to want to do more then I can feasibly do. Time to re-evaluate to see what I can effectively do.

Okay, so between work and school, I haven’t had much energy to work on my side projects. Just enough to unwind. Fortunately, after next week, I’m done with school for the rest of the year and I have plenty of tasks to work on project wise. I have some aesthetic ideas for both this site and my gaming blog. Also going to finally start playing around with Unity more. I keep updating it and staring at at it going “I really need to go through some of these new tutorials”.

Another shift that I’ll be working on is trying to put myself on a consistent schedule to work on my projects throughout the week. Just need to figure out a consistent schedule I can stick to without burning myself out.

Been a bit since I last posted. Between work and school (mainly work), I’ve had to put my personal projects on hold to help me maintain my sanity.

Work has picked up quite a bit between taking on new responsibilities, the business make a fair number of fast moving changes, and in increase focus on our AWS migration. While I’m enjoying the new responsibilities and opportunities (including a crash course in PostgreSQL administration), there is just a lot going on right now, with a lot of new knowledge I’m having to pick up.

Add to that a new college course learning one of my least favorite IT topics (networking) that includes a group project. I’m okay with group project; but when I’m already spending 8 hours a day essentially working on multiple group projects constantly, I can’t say I’m all that thrilled having to manage another when I’m home. Granted, the fact that I always seem to end up being the de facto project manager for every group project I’m in, that really isn’t helping. Online courses are meant for people who have a limited schedule and need to do course work whenever they have free time; meaning, THE CHANCES EVERYONE WILL HAVE MATCHING SCHEDULES TO WORK TOGETHER IS LIKE WINNING THE FREAKING LOTTERY.

Okay, off my soap box. Hoping that once this cluster of a class is at least finished, and work starts to calm down some, I’ll have enough energy to focus on my project.