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It's interesting to contemplate this hypothetical woman and how she got there. It's pretty likely that at some point she was a normal woman, had a cat or three but really cared for them. And at some point, a couple strays show up and one cat has a litter, human attachment or fear of taking action gets in the way and before you know it, it's out of control.
A prolonged period of procrastination on most tasks will make it just that much harder when you finally get around to it. I have the fear of acting problem at times, so I know I need to watch out for it. And yet, it sneaks up in odd places.
Like with Fink.
Every time I realize that I really need to do an update I'm in the middle of something, or I don't have a couple hours to get it done. And then it had been a few months and I understood it was going to take more than a couple hours. A couple months back I realized that I had no idea how long it might take (at the rate I was going, forever was a strong possibility).
And finally, I had to do it, because a friend was sending me patch files that required an update-all and because I'm on vacation, so justifications about how long it might take or what might break are irrelevant (mostly).
It took most of yesterday, but now it's done. It took hours to pull all the files because I kept getting blocked by CVS locks or running into errors with old files that needed to be removed and only about five hours to recompile the set of extensions I use. Now I need to figure out how to rsync for future updates.
Posted by Dave at December 18, 2004 01:51 PM