Recovering Sysadmin

From: Gene Buckle <geneb_at_deltasoft.com>
Date: Fri Oct 20 11:54:29 2000

> > > > Life goes on, Sellam, and someday you'll look back at this and think,
> > > > "Gosh, maybe I over reacted just a little bit," and that's OK. We all
> > > > grow up at our own pace.
> > >
> > > Mmmmm, probably not.
> > >
> >
> > Sellam, why do I have the strongest feeling that you're either a sysadmin
> > or a recovering sysadmin? *grin*
> >
> > g.
>
> There's no such thing as a recovering sysadmin.
> It's not like alcoholism...
> It's a fatal disorder...
>
> One more late night I'm coming home and my wife's gonna kill me...
>
I got really lucky. I met my (to be) wife while wearing something like 7
different hats at a startup ISP. We had a horrid ice storm in 1996 that
did phenominal things to the mains. She brought me food and quad mochas
for the three days I lived at work feeding generators and doing manual
power load balancing. "Hey, this UPS is almost charged - *yank* now I can
charge the next one in line...." Having 2 generators and 8 UPSs made for
an interesting three days. I had a blast playing Quake on the T1 while
waiting for USWest to un-fsck up the PRI lines we had going into the modem
racks...*sigh*

g.
Received on Fri Oct 20 2000 - 11:54:29 BST