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Day Fourteen
Posted Jul 6, 1999
"This is one thing that... I was gonna wait a while before we talked about."
You'd think I'd have learned by now.
After enough screwing around and causing life difficult for myself, you'd think I'd have realized that, when happily throwing your entire body and soul into a job, there are three cardinal rules you must obey:
Rule 1: Don't let yourself distracted. No TV, no gaming, no long quests to save the princess or recapture the abandoned terran outpost. Just work. It'll get done faster and you'll be able to concentrate.
Rule 2: No relationships. The last thing you need while trying to troubleshoot why SVR4 systems aren't properly sharing memory structures is to randomly let the mind wander and spend 4 hours picking apart a conversation you and the SO had last night about eggplant, and what exactly that means for your relationship. (This is seperate from Rule 1 simply because the distractionary outcome of 17 long-range fighters on your six are nothing compared to the destructive powers of a woman scorned.)
Rule 3: If, for some unknown reason you find yourself in or at the cusp of a relationship (thumbing your nose at Rule 2), then under NO CIRCUMSTANCES WHATSOEVER should you provide services to, work with, for, or over, or in any way shape or form engage in real live work/client/customer relations with, your SO or potential SO.
"Maybe we'll talk about it now so you can think about it...
Cause you all, we all have to make some kind of plans for ourselves..."
I have, in the last seven days, broken all three of those rules. I'm now way way behind, my target launch date has to be pushed back, and for the life of me I can't tell what's working with my project and what's not.
This is so bad it's not even funny.
"It's a free concert from now on."
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Day Seven
Posted Jun 28, 1999
There are days when it's just not worth waking up.
You hand me an impossible task.
16,176 lines of pure, unadulterated, happy, bug-free code and They say, it's not good enough.
Not good enough? Are you mad? It does what you tell it to do. It generates things just as
you want them. It, in short, is exactly what you wanted it to be. But this won't stop you from
requesting it in production at least two months before the beforehand-agreed upon
date. Grrr....
My admin. assistant has learned to yoyo. I'm quite proud of her. She's gotten quite good, for only
been throwing for a week. Soon, she will surpass me in yo-throw skill. I'm quite pleased.
New workstation! Something else I can dump money into and let sit in my mouse-hole of
an apartment and collect dust while I dit-dit-dit for 20 hours straight. Joy.
A parental unit is en route to my side of the country for a visit. I have to clean.
I hate cleaning.
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Day One
Posted Jun 20, 1999
It's Father's Day, 1999.
I've just gotten back from Las Vegas, and am seriously thinking that
if, for some godforsaken reason I go back, to never ever ever spend that
much money on a game of craps again.
That place is weird, Vegas is. Too much aural and visual stimulation. Lights,
bells, whistles, people coming and going, fancy dressers from LA,
Mom+Pops from the Midwest betting the farm... General mayham.
Don't get me wrong; mayham is great. But it's a whole different level
in Vegas. It's like, an expensive anarchistic Disneyland for thrill seekers with
tons of cash trying to have a good time. With a touch of self-confident
thugs on acid.
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