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June 3, 2004 - Thursday

 Thank You, Fairbanks, And Good Night!

Cue Corey Hart singing “I wear my sunglasses at night…” because it’s 6:30 pm, the sun is at high noon, and I … am … OUTTA HERE!!!!

My flight out isn’t until 10 am tomorrow, but there’s a flight at 12:40 tonight with 12 open seats and I’m going to be there to try to fly stand-by. If I get on that one it’ll get me to Seattle at 5:00 am, and there’s a 7:00 am flight from there to Burbank with 50 open seats which I’m just about guaranteed to get on. If everything lines up for me (which, dammit, I’m about due for, considering how nightmarish this trip has been), I should get home before I was supposed to leave Alaska.

Meanwhile Doug the Rain Man is talking to me even as I type — while I’m clearly NOT LISTENING TO HIM — still bitching about my software and mooning after the old system. Blah blah blah blah…

Ladies and gentlemen, the Elvis tattoo is getting the hell out of the building!


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 Goals

The guy I’m working with here — let’s call him “Doug” — is having problems pulling a report and he just complained to me for the umpteenth fucking time about it. Normally I would try to care deeply — deeply, I tell you! — about this problem he’s having, but this time around I just can’t. Because he’s not trying to pull the report out of my software, he’s pulling it out of someone else’s, software I don’t know a damned thing about, software he’s supposed to know how to use because he’s been using it for years. Not my problem, bro, handle it yourself.

So Doug came over to me just now, showed me the report, and bitched about how “what we need to do is figure out how to eliminate this column from the report.” And then he stared at me, expecting me to have the answer.

I gave him an answer: So you’ve got a goal now, Doug. It’s good to have goals.

For me, that’s tact.


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 Top Denny’s

Today, I fulfilled a dream I didn’t even know I had: I’ve now eaten at the Denny’s at the top of the world.

I’m particularly pleased that I wore a Hawaiian shirt for this picture.


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