Just a Typical Work Day

With coffee in hand, I come into a dark office floor.  The darker it is when I arrive, the happier I am. It means I can get through my email in peace as I drink my coffee and look at the news online.   Lights on in the office means someone is here to “damage…

The Hill to Die On

An old network manager who was my peer for years at a previous company used to ask a trick interview question to see if people truly understood what he was really asking.  He would ask: “Which is the best OS – Unix or Windows?” What he truly wanted as an answer was “it depends on…

Twas the Night Before, the Night Before Thanksgiving

And people are crazy! Holy shit! Today is the day I switch my laser pointer to a cattle prod to keep the cats moving in the direction they need to go. And my temptations to kick those cats is strong.  A guy on my team today stepped in during my meeting to enforce my point…

Ramblings

We had a thunderstorm last night. It was glorious laying there in bed, listening to the thunder, watching the lightning, and smelling the rain blowing into our room.  I guess that’s the upside of having had insomnia. I didn’t sleep through it. The Portland Thorns (Portland’s professional women’s soccer team) won the first championship title…

What Would Freud Say

There are plenty of things people do that make me wonder “WTF?”.  This week has been filled with those wonderful moments as we get read to hit a HUGE milestone at this location – we are going to bring the US onto the software we wrote. This process is quite the study in human behavior….

Your Mouth Is Moving

The question to that title would be “how do I know you’re lying?” Or my work theme yesterday. I have a “cohort” – a term I use loosely – who spent 15 minutes ranting and raving at me – and lying to me yesterday.  Then kept going on and on with said lies – but…

Hump Day Reverie

+ It’s funny getting photos of G and the kids at Disneyland.  People were worried that the girls were too old.  Yeah, no.  Perfect age. And I think it’s the perfect age too because the girls and G can all go on the rides together.  Yay tall kids. + If G comes back and there…

Brain Dead

I worked for a CIO once who, when asked how his night had been, replied simply, “I sat on the couch to take off my shoes and see if there was a baseball game on only to find that I had been watching the TV guide channel for an hour.” Brain dead.  He had worked…

A Ukulele

I want a ukulele.   Or at least that’s what my subconscious has decided. I keep having dreams about shopping for a ukulele.  And not finding that any of them are right.  People trying to tell me what I need – but me declining and going to a different store.   I woke up obsessed…

It’s Friday.

Summarizes what today means for the rest of my family. What a blimp hanger looks like. What I drank after a long fucking day at work where I wanted to kill people. What Indigo held on her hand yesterday after she slammed her thumb in the door of the car. The person that stole DJ’s…