What do you do when you run out of space on a hard drive... really, what do you do?

well... you (or at least I HOPE YOU) do NOT e-mail your customer that is paying top dollar for your consulting software development services and say "I can't install any software, the drive is full." and then go away because it is no longer your problem.

And.. if you are the manager of that person, you don't email the person that hasn't been on the project for 6 months (PTHBOTP - that would be ME) and say. "Help, we can't go forward with this project! we got an error message." and then when the PTHBOTP finds you contacts to work on the issue (and give you more space) and the contacts can't help because one was laid off and the other had a death in the family and the other - other one has never heard of the box... You don't email the PTHBOTP again and say "Help Us Please". At which point the PTHBOTP has this sinking feeling and suggests the terribly obvious and say "Why don't you help yourself and delete some files?" and then when you get that helpful advise you don't say "We'll try, if there's nothing else you can do." And then wonder of wonders... it actually.... wait for it... WORKS!

I mean.... why the HELL couldn't they figure out that they might want to delete their own code and temp files BEFORE halting development for a freaking DAY while they are critical path for a critical project??? WHY!?


For those of you that are reading this.. I work in high tech.. I don't like to talk about it. I prefer to be running.. but this had to be let out.

This too shall pass...

"If a happy man looks at it, he becomes sad, and if a sad man looks at it, he becomes happy."

Too true that "this too shall pass". How fleeting anything, everything, is. "Good" news and "bad" news... always so intense and immediate, then time passes and life goes on. Run down the hill, its easy, run up the hill, its hard, but then you run down the hill again. Get the job you want, your co-worker, part of why you want the job is laid off, stress for a week.. go ahead with the job. Some little things like work, running, etc... so small compared to the real important things in life... which is life.

Little brother may have cancer, have to remove his testicle to find out... wtf? There is much hope for my brother... cancer doesn't appear to have spread, we'll know in a week what the next steps are and his prognosis is very very good. Father-in-law fights off colon cancer and it comes back into his lungs but maybe there's hope for him.

Of course, health is potentially fleeting too... from hard experience I've learned. I don't assume good health anymore. I have gratitude for being able to run, or swim, or bike... just to feel the feeling of manual motion.

This is a rambling note... things have been very upheaved for me... but, because of my family's struggles with the really important things... I'm learning to let the smaller upheavals go. slowly.

Smart Kids

A certain smart kid I know... who is now a very smart grownup... blogged about this:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-secret-to-raising-smart-kids
cool.

For myself... being one point short of genius, I know the value of hard work *laugh*

Much going on... will blog more later.