I was trolling through old entries again, and the one I found from 2002 is pretty lame.\u00a0 I was writing all about my newly-acquired Mac G3, where I was trying to get both System 9 and OS X 10.1 to work.
\nThe fun part of that release was when Finder would crash, and the only way you could fix it was to ssh in, and reboot the host.\u00a0 Thankfully, things are more reliable these days.
\nThat said, in my current role, I’m finding that there’s a lot I missed with UNIX and Loonix in the past few years.\u00a0 But, then, I didn’t have the position, money, or energy to spend time with any any of it.
\nI paid attention, even if I wasn’t able to do much hands-on.\u00a0 I could be sore about it, but the responsibility is split between me, myself, and the folks living in Federal Pound-Me-In-The-Ass Prison.
\nAll that said, however, I do feel uncomfortable sometimes with the seat-of-the-pants moves.\u00a0 But not as uncomfortable as I was in my last round in the icebox, where they did whatever the fuck they thought would work, and blamed others when it didn’t.
\nPurportedly, things there are going higher.\u00a0 I have no idea what the status is on the complaint I filed.
\n((somewhat long rant about the hell I’ve been through deleted))
\nThe dilemma I have is how much time I spend learning stuff that’s already obsolete.\u00a0 I’m relatively comfortable in both a real System V and Linux System V environment, though there’s blanks I have.
\nBut how much do I focus on filling in those blanks when it’s already obsolete?
\nHmmm.
\nTough question.
\nToday is the start of the Thanksgiving babby birfday roll call.\u00a0 Interestingly, the two who celebrate today are two of the ones who are most removed from my life these days.\u00a0 One largely on account of actions taken against me (yes, I can hold a grudge).\u00a0 The other on account of adherence to a faith that worships a thoroughly corrupt political organization.\u00a0 I do wish both of them well, though I’m having trouble being upset about the lack of F2F.\u00a0 ‘What can I say;\u00a0 maybe that makes me a bad person.
\nI started writing a couple of days too early this year.\u00a0 Consequently, I’ll finish before my normal 20 August end date.
\nKinda distracted by all of this.
\nSo, another free-write today.\u00a0 It happens.\u00a0 That said, maybe that’s what I was trying to do all along.\u00a0 The writing is coming a lot more easily the past few days.
\nI can’t see worth shit, but I can still plunk out some words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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