04 november 2026
where I am, it is still the day after election day. town tells me it's 11/05, but not yet in my timezone. america is doing a funny again, but it's one that I think can end up positive.
I hope I can be proud of this country someday.
as has been drilled into me this past years, I know the work has only begun to make this place somewhere I want to be for real. Hope is somewhat renewed, though. Call me silly, I'll be silly.
that's enough big important stuff. time for small unimportant stuff, writing about this keeps me much more sane than speculating or predicting the future.
today at work I did some good things. I showed that I was good at my job by bringing a downed machine back in only 30 minutes when power got returned. sure it was a baby machine of only like 12 nodes, but I did it and I communicated with the people who needed to know when it was back
I also did a good piece of self restraint. they want us to call whether the system can be returned to users before the end of the day, which makes sense. I needed to ask my management for help making the call, but I made the decision to hold it overnight and take care of it tomorrow rather than dragging out my work day more than I needed to.
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your computer is on fire
^ (that's actually the title of a really fun book.)