2:00 PM

Whilst contemplating finding and installing a new firewall and then systematically rooting through the damn registry to remove all the ZoneAlarm keys, I thought I’d read a little jwz drama to cheer me up:

And — let me emphasize — I do not enjoy this! Oh sure, you say, why do you keep doing it? I don’t know. I think I still enjoy writing software, usually. But what I end up spending almost all of my time doing is sysadmin crap. I hate it. I have always hated it. Always. If you made a Venn diagram, there would be two non-overlapping circles, one of which was labeled, “Times when I am truly happy” and the other of which was labeled, “Times when I am logged in as root, holding a cable, or have the case open.”

And like all relationship-drama fuckups, I seem to be incapable of just walking away. I finally got it together to leave that cesspool we call the computer industry and what did I do? I filled my nightclub with computers, and with insufficient budget to make them be someone’s problem other than mine.

I’ll be standing over here in the column labeled “DON’T”.