days from hell (or worse)

This is one of those Incredible Coincidences or possibly Acts of God.  I can’t tell you which or whether.
Last night a coworker and I gave a presentation to our local linux user group on virtualizing the enterprise with VMware.  It went reasonably well, in that nobody threw anything and the only people who fell asleep [...]

I saw that line in a Dilbert cartoon and it went straight to my heart.
Last night while driving I noticed we were pretty close to a full moon.  I think it hit today at work.
Do you know the phrase dumb blonde? We have the original prototype at work.
I need a new computer.
Ok.
[brings computer]
What’s that for?
It’s [...]

Those who know me know I don’t do recreational pharmaceuticals.  I disapprove of them for me; you’re all welcome to dope yourselves into infinity, provided you hurt no one else.
Having given birth to several bouncing baby kidney stones, I learned one word early: MORPHINE.  I was never so happy as when it started to kill [...]

In case you haven’t read the previous Comcast post, work got Comcast service turned on last Friday.  Today we went to look at the modem and found it half dead.
Half dead?
Yes, half dead.  Sort of.  The WAN side was blinking but the LAN side, which has four ports, had two ports lit up in spite [...]

For some strange reason (necessity?), I was either lucky or good at hiring.  I’m kinda proud of it, right up til this week.  It seems that I need to add a new set of skills to my hiring bag: bone density(?)
As of noon today, this is the sick bay report:

one shoulder surgery due to an [...]

Yeah, it’s been a rough week today.
Some days in which you run constantly are actually a good thing.  They make the day interesting and move quickly.   Other days are like running through quicksand, prolonging the agony.  Today, as you might have guessed, ran toward the latter category.
Work is more of a nightmare than normal, which [...]

My boss is funny.   Not funny ha-ha…. Funny like breaking your leg when the bone sticks through.
Two weeks ago she chewed me a new one for some imagined event that had no basis in reality.  We seemed to get past that relatively decently but we still work in the Twilight Zone<tm>.
As proof, I offer the [...]

I have never put the time I should into electronics so I’m just a minor tinkerer.  I got re-excited about it recently and have started burning myself with a soldering iron more regularly lately.
I’ve always wanted to steal design a tube guitar amp and build it.  I was nearly successful a little while back and [...]

I do not set out expecting (or wanting) weird things to happen: they just do.
There are approximately fourteen people at work expecting babies, at least four of them twins.  The call has gone out: DO NOT DRINK THE WATER.
It is too late in my department: we have one set of twins and one boy, both [...]

I strongly suspect this should be my epitaph.
I’m going barking f-ing mad here, people.  `They’ have finally gotten me.   No, not the illuminati.  Not the terrorists.  Not even Dick Cheney’s personal waterboarding team could do this kind of damage.  Of course I’m speaking of my coworkers.  Not my department; the entire company.
I know I work [...]