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Making breakfast on christmas morning. i can have cereal with egg nog poured on it, right? That's christmas-y, isn't it?

the most time consuming aspect of business travel is convincing myself that I haven't forgotten anything before letting the hotel room door lock behind me for the last time

Frankly I feel like most engineering on existing systems is more psychology than coding. "What was this author probably thinking when they wrote this?" "Where would the last person in this codebase probably have hacked in this feature?" "What did they think I would think this interface name means?" The ability to guess intent from archeological evidence is a key skill.

grabbing some late night eats at the only bar in boston still serving food on a tuesday. It's basically in a stairwell computerfairi.es/media/TyvxnJy

it's a small thing. but when i command-click a link to open it in a new tab, and it ignores me and replaces the current page anyway, i am filled with blind rage at that website

Now sitting through an hour of mandatory legal training for a job I don't actually have anymore.

my long weekly nightmare of multiple consecutive days of sobriety is almost at an end

ow my head... i promise ill never alcohol again. (did i say this last year? maybe.)

Now entering literally the 10th hour of meetings whose sole topic is to argue about whether one box in one table of one slide of one presentation should be yellow? Or red? Debate has been going for 3 months now...

I just got called "Or Best Bad Cop" on my new project and I haven't even started full-time yet. Welp, so much for trying to be nicer to everyone... >.>

Made clever suggestion to resolve subtle contractual issue. Lawyer dismissed it. Fancy VP makes identical suggestion the following week. Suddenly it's a great idea! >.>

it was so awesome to see so many of you at pawcon this weekend! never stop being awesome <3

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