the winds are changing.

Apparently I have an extra ticket for cedar point. There's an lw trip this Saturday, we leave at 9am, should be back at 3am. Transportation and admission is paid for. My brother was supposed to go with me, but now he's got to work. Who wants to go?

Recently, I've stopped checking my voicemail. When someone tried to leave me one today, and later told me that my box was full, I decided to go through them. Amongst the unimportant ones, or the no longer important ones, I found some from folks that I actually wanted to get back to. oh, yeah! that's why I check my voicemail.

Sick or not, I've been plowing ahead. Things at work continue to get accomplished, and things ont he list continue to get checked off. Tomorrow, I take breakfast to Ani and the kids as penance for being a crappy friend and aunt, and then go to work early, like every day. There's a half-dozen things that will get checked off the list tomorrow, come hell or high water. Another five - ten that will get done between Thursday and Friday (dammit). Saturday I'll hunker down and get the rest done (though I bet there's more that'll be added by then).

I said to Neir today "Work is a kind of Zen for me. It calms me when there's drama at home." Which, as he pointed out, sounds kinda crazy, but it's true. There's drama boiling just below the surface these days, but I'm trying very very hard to ignore it. We'll see how it goes.

Also, commodoresexual , in case I forget to call you during sane hours, which is always the case: I miss you, and would like to dine with you. When's good for you?

This got really really long, so I'm gonna put it behind a cut. I probably spent, like, an hour and a half on it. It's mostly just headspace stuff, but .. I feel lighter for having gotten it down.


( train of thought much? )

So, I know that my job isn't life-threatening, or life-saving, or even extremely high-impact, but sometimes, I get appreciation from the customers, and am reminded that sometimes we are helping folks.

Behind the cut is a conversation I had with a customer on his server (which you can do in linux, and it's awesome).

( it's not obvious until the end. )

I think my favorite part is how that guy is in Egypt. and I'm in michigan. and we just had a nice little conversation. and we're both smiling.