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conversion hell

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it is 0657 on sunday, 27 february. i have been in the office since 0900 yesterday; awake since 0700. i went to sleep friday night at about 0300 saturday morning. before that, i had been awake since 0600 friday. i think i am seeing colors.

sitting here listening to The Charm of the Highway Strip — which makes pretty darn good working music, by the way — and actually getting work done. feeling pretty good about today, thus far, which is odd and certainly unanticipated. went out to kasey’s last night for beers with johnny and whirl, and unexpected others […]

ugh. am so frazzled with everything at work i can barely remember what day of the week it is. much less the date; i have to look over to my calendar, then think about what day it is (usually in terms of “well, X was due today, so it must be Tuesday/Wednesday/whatever”). today was the […]

a message to tech support

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backstory: we’ve been having some minor difficulty with some of our anti-spam systems, because they keep running out of disk space. i opened a trouble ticket after about the third time that running out of disk space resulted in breaking the product’s update management software, requesting that they change the package manager to stop truncating […]

a sad tale of sadness

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once upon a time, there was a little group of unix sysadmins that ran mail servers. they did other things too, important and unnoticeable things, but mostly they made the mail go. then events came to pass and the sysadmins were made to run mail on non-unix machines. they bought three years of service for […]