For the second day in a row Annoying Cube Neighbour comes over to ask for the password of his VM for which he set the password to. Yesterday I told him what the usual password was. Today I told him that it was whatever he himself had set it to, when he remembered that we'd done this whole thing yesterday. Tomorrow I will just remember what he set it to and remind him.
I feel like my pet cactus гоша is the only one who understands me at work. I was thinking about taking him home because I think that he would be happier with more sunlight than what can be found in the Morlock Cave which is where I work. But then I'd be back to not having anyone understand me.
I told my manager something about showing the Russians around Washington on the weekend and he started saying common Russian 101 phrases, and I blurted out that my pronunciation is much better without thinking. He came around later and I apologize for the comment, but he took it in good spirits. His wife is a Russian speaker from Moldova I gather. We chatted about the difficulty in picking up new non-computer languages.
I realize what I have to do now. I have to get Annoying Cube Neighbour and Technical Lead Chris together and watch them destroy themselves. This would not only be entertaining, but also solve a number of problems. I am reminded of that moment in Ghostbusters when Doctor Peter Venkman says “we need to get these two together” and Egon says “I think that would be extraordinarily dangerous”.
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This is how today's coding session left me feeling. Mainly due to a conversation with the technical lead on my project. Also the futility of realizing that pretty much all my conversations with him are pretty much the same with different specifics. They say that insanity is repeating the same thing over and over, and expecting different results.
I just heard that NetCon made a big sale to The Company, my first real employer out of college. Apparently we beat out Lucent in making this sale, which is funny because before I started at s-mart, they had just beat out Lucent for their biggest contract a top tier ISP in Australia. It's funny how the world is all connected.
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