weekdays and weekends

For nearly the last five years, I've been working full-time for the Mozilla project. Full-time for Mozilla, as I'm sure it is for many other projects, means seven days a week. I don't put in seven full days a week, but I can probably count on one hand the number of weeks where I wasn't doing something Mozilla related on the weekend.

This weekend is no different from most, I've been spending time in the garden with Deanna and the early budding and flowering plants and the rambunctious songbirds and reading and responding to bugmail and approval requests for the frozen Mozilla development branches.

I've had a laptop for as long as I've been working full-time on Mozilla and that lets me do quite a bit of work from the yard and garden. It's an interesting mix -- the Mozilla work, and my yard work, a fairly dirty laptop reminds me of that regularly.

I'm very fortunate to have a job that is filled with novel and exciting challenges nearly every day, and that brings me into contact with new people and new viewpoints as often as I could wish. I get much of the same kind of joy working with the trees, flowers, herbs, and vegetables in my small backyard garden.

It can be a great challenge but the payoff is as rewarding as I can imagine. There's no other life I'd rather be living.

(The photo at the left is the root of our phone system at the MoFo office. The photo at the right is a close-up on one of our two apricot trees.)