I Rock

Have you ever ever finished something and thought it worked out so well that you truly rock? (Yes, I've wandered off into slangville here.) That's about how I feel right now. I just turned in a Linux Journal article (should be in the April issue if I'm counting correctly) that I'm so, so pleased with. I feel like I had to earn a PhD to get all of the underlying pieces working in order to write it but it was well worth it. Twenty-five-hundred words--two weeks of banging my head on my desk alternating with cheers. I'm sure I'll get hate mail from people telling me I got it all wrong ... that's usually how these things work. However, I know it works, because, well, it works. That's the nice thing about writing tech instructions.

If anyone really cares one day I might do a live blog of what it's like working on one of those heavy tech articles where I don't already know everything down pat. Mind you, I seem to have an aversion to choosing articles (or books) where I already "know it all." That's too easy, right? I'd rather learn how to do something new or about a technology I wasn't familiar with before. Heck, every time I revise Linux for Dummies I have to add distributions or catch up with distributions or add cool new software I've never used ... keeps me on my toes!

Alas, I have no time to celebrate. A lot to finish still before I go to TOKYO on Thursday. Sorry, I'm excited, every time I type that it ends up in all caps.

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