I dropped a package off at the FedEx station, arriving so closely on the heels of lunch break that I suspect the gentleman at the counter actually cut his lunch short to help me. I asked him how he was doing on that warm & breezy Saturday afternoon. "Living the dream," came the reply, with nary a trace of sarcasm. Nifty, seeing that kind of attitude give a Mom & Pop feel to the branch office of a world-spanning corporation...and too nifty, IMO, to keep to myself.
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* For me, technically speaking, it isn't a "vacation"--merely more code-writing and less writing about coding. See you all again a week from tomorrow (May 10th)!
Thoughts on computers, companies, and the equally puzzling humans who interact with them