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Cake day: October 23rd, 2023

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  • My ex brother in law is a commercial refrigeration tech. He did a emergency call to a restaurant that was losing temp on thier walk in freezer. Loaded with food that needed to be kept under freezing. Time was of the essence or all the food would be tossed due to health codes.

    He came out diagnoses it. Qoutes a few grand to fix it. Approved. Then he fixes it in like 15min. Just tightened a single screw.

    The owner was pissed he paid a few grand for 15min and a single screw tweak.

    Tech looked at him and said he paid for it to be fixed. The fact that the fix was a single screw and which screw needed tweaking was specialized knowledge. He paid for the knowledge not the time.

    I took that lesson to heart working in IT or really any field. Even when hiring people to do stuff for me. Sometimes it’s not just the labor it’s also the knowledge.







  • American experience.

    I broke a bottle on my wrist one night.
    Someone called the ambulance.
    They show up. Cops also show up.
    Medics check and clean the wound. Didn’t hit a vien. Patch me up.
    Cops make sure it’s not a domestic dispute. They leave.
    I ask medics how I’m supposed to pay…

    Medics: you only get charged if we give you a ride.
    Me: so I can just go to the ER on my own and skip the ride?
    Medics: yeah. ER or even Urgent Care would be faster.
    Me: well shit thanks for coming to make sure I don’t die. I appreciate you two.
    Medics: No problem. Take care.

    Then I got an uber to the ER and got stitches. If it was earlier in the day I could’ve gone to urgent care (like a small clinic not a full hospital) to get taken care of faster and cheaper.

    bonus photo of wrist scar







  • This actually happened to me last month. I had to touch code from a previous team/project I was on.

    I got the call for a collaboration/consult. I forgot everything about it. Jumped in a meeting next day anyway. We pulled up the code. Everything was documented and I had a section with parameters for a “wish” feature that they actually wanted finally. I pointed it out and told them the needful to finish the feature.

    Thank you past me. I’ll have to buy you a drink.

    Then I had a nice 5pm Scotch.