Ugh. It’s been a suck week to start 2015
Entries Tagged as 'Mature'
This is what drives Developers to drink…
January 28th, 2014
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I’m talking documentation-that-actively-thwarts-using-the-software here, not cars. Okay, the scene: Night time during a chilly winter. An LCD Monitor glows in silent duet with a USB Keyboard light. The fevered, muted clicking of a keyboard. The screen showing a cornucopia of layered windows: Multiple shells open – several halted on `man` pages, the other flickering errors […]
Tags: CSS · Drupal · grump · Q-36 · Ruby · SASS · Secret Project · Zen Drupal Theme
Writing Fiction to Exercise the Creative Within…
May 16th, 2011
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Here’s a few pieces of fiction I’ve cobbled together over the past few months. The inspiration for these pieces is a series of Kingmaker adventures for a fantasy role-playing game called Pathfinder. Yeah, they’re no Hemingway but I had fun writing them Hope y’all enjoy the PDFs. Perchance, A Wandering Star The Long Ride Home […]
Tags: fiction · Pathfinder · PFRPG · RPG
Vacationing: It’s All About The Company You Keep
October 23rd, 2008
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Back from a vacation that was cut short by several days. Let me say that I do like the Florida Keys, its very nice down there – tropical foliage, blue waters, constant sea breezes. The problem I have is that there are people there. And most, if not all of them, are there exclusively to […]
Garrett in Crisis! The Xbox Disaster: Day 20 – It Is Done!
July 11th, 2008
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Strike up the band and hand out the cigars! My Xbox is back from McAllen, TX with a much quieter DVD drive and fans. Technically, it’s a whole new machine that was built on April 11, 2008. But I am just going to ignore that fact and jump around saying “It’s back! It’s back! Wheee!” […]
Tags: customer service · DRM · Gaming · technical support · World Of Warcraft · Xbox 360
The Truly Crappy Day (was ‘Garrett is as Garrett Does’)
October 17th, 1999
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WARNING: Contains mature language and graphic descriptions of injuries Hurricane Irene kinda snuck up on me. I didn’t hear about it until Friday morning. So after work on Friday, I made sure I had the supplies from Hurricane Floyd handy and set about not worrying. Saturday morning came and went.
Tags: bamboo · blood · Crappy Day · Critical Moment of Stupidity · dog · ER · Florida · hospital · hurricane · Ludwig · machete · Maxwell · stupid · tree