Author name: Arcterex

Riding My Life Away

So the last three weeks I’ve been riding my bike to work. I’ve been saying that I live close enough to work to do this since I moved in last fall, so I finally got off my ass and did it. The location actually works well, it’s 99% downhill to work, so I don’t arrive

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Sometimes I Really Get Around

You know what’s really weird? Looking for a solution to a problem and finding a page pretty much exactly suited to what you’re doing. Then after going through it realizing that you were the one who originally wrote this and submitted it years ago as a helpful snippet of code…

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Overheard

IT Guy: [finishing conversation on phone] Ok, bye. [in an abrupt tone] Management Drone: You know, when you finish a conversation with a customer you should try to be polite, finish off with ‘thanks, have a great day’ or something like that. ITG: I would never do that to a customer, I’m always polite with

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Long Night

I have to use the language that I can speak right now to describe how mu day is going here at just before 9am. /me tired /me up till almost 2 last night /me no like work at work then come home and work at home /me need sleep /me need coooooooooooofffffffffffeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Acutally, make that

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Another Wonderful Day

What a crappy day. Lets see. Come in to work and chat with some people in the hall, and one of our support people comes by and says “you know we have a crisis at [customer] right?”. No, course not, ok, so I check my email, nope, nothing there, so I try to get on

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