I suppose it is revealing about the state of a person to ask them of their idea of the “Perfect Day,” which is sure to be a dynamic and fluid idea depending on their current situation, their mood, or the daily circumstances that make up their lives at any given time.<\/p>\n
For me, today was as close to a perfect day, although we have to add “semi” because here I sit in a noisy data center at 3:54 AM babysitting a sick server and watching mysql updates scroll across the screen while struggling to keep my eyes open.\u00a0 Not an auspicious ending, that’s for sure, but the day a decent beginning.\u00a0 It went like this:<\/p>\n
6:35 – the kids are on school break, so I’m absolved of the drop-off at 8AM, and so I head out early for a four-hour server installation in La Habra at 8:30.\u00a0 I figure I’ll find a SBUX in Brea or so, and do some work, instead of sitting in traffic.<\/p>\n
6:50 – in Brea already, banging out some mail processing for GEMM, getting a head start on the day.<\/p>\n
8:30 – Server installation goes well, which is a fine end to a horrible engagement, where the first guy I send out to upgrade a simple Windows 2000 server spends nine hours and ends up with a broken POS that I drag back to the office and build from scratch.\u00a0 But the engagement ends well, with the customer happy because of my inherent generosity besides being a veritable wellspring of knowledge that advice, which they are short on in all respects technical.<\/p>\n
12:30 – Swing by a client to fix two small items and pick up a laptop.\u00a0 Will work on it at the office during the leisure hours (right ….)<\/p>\n
1:15 – Manage to have lunch with my wife at “The Counter”, a distinctly California concept where you build your own gourmet hamburger, in my case in a bowl without the bun.\u00a0 The food is delicious.<\/p>\n
2:30 – We both go back to the house and pick up the kids and take them to a neighborhood pool.\u00a0 The water is cold, but the Jacuzzi is warm, and the kids have a blast.\u00a0 Back at the house they have triple decker peanut-butter jelly sandwiches.<\/p>\n
5:00 – I attempt to curl up in bed with a laptop and catch up on some of the work of the day, but it isn’t going to happen.\u00a0 I feed the kids, and spend some time with them.\u00a0 Maybe it’s this part of the day that is “perfect” or as close as it gets.<\/p>\n
7:30 – Server crashes, and I need to speed down to the data center for hours and hours of wrestling with operating systems, log files, data, data, and more data …<\/p>\n
2:30 AM — full circle. \u00a0Thus ends the semi-perfect day …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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