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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • My aunt did this in the late 80s and early 90s.

    She used to visit the one local burger franchise so much that all the staff knew her and she basically had her own reserved booth. Her husband, 2 kids and her would be there most days a week.

    They lived across the country from us, but whenever we stayed with them, we were also at the burger place almost daily.




  • I don’t know how our IT system was set up, I had no access to poke around.

    But I think it was a bit relaxed, we knew some users were downloading movies in certain office locations. Told to stop rather than clamping down.

    So I think everyone was just left to deal with the update schedule themselves because there were maybe… 2 or 3 desktops in the entire office. Everyone was on laptops and didn’t leave them running overnight.


  • At a previous job, I was not doing IT support but another role and I noticed a coworker had a red dot on the Windows Update status bar icon.

    Told him I don’t think I have seen that before, normally it is orange.

    So he tells me that he is trying to see how long he can keep it going before something happens. I recommended against this, and also I normally recommend against using the desktop to store files. The laptop goes up in flames, so do your files. We have OneDrive for business, I know people hate it, but at least your stuff is… relatively safe. Backed up at least with version history.

    A few weeks later I was chatting to someone else who sometimes shared my desk, and somehow I mentioned this encounter. A while later, his manager sitting ahead of us is on a phone call and we hear he is getting upset. He hangs up and turns around, tells us.

    Him and one sales guy had spent hours on some proposals, worked out all the values and timings and it’s gone. All that work gone. His laptop rebooted because Windows updates.

    He mentions who… it is the same guy. I tell him I was just telling my desk buddy about him and how he intentionally left his laptop running for months to see what Windows Update would do and clearly he did not take my advice about rebooting and using OneDrive.

    The rest of the day… this guy did not stop. Every 30 minutes or so he’d just go “All that work, gone. Why?”

    We’d be walking to get lunch, talking about other things and again he’d just switch back to that and turn gloomy again.













  • I never said I was trying to get into their underwear or pick them up or take them home.

    It is not my goal, it is not my aim. I have never had a one night stand.

    It’s usually girls I know through other people, friends of friends that I have been around and developed some interest in. I often feel that I only have a small window or a single chance to make a good impression otherwise someone else may catch their attention.

    I was young, I was stupid and placed so much pressure on myself and end never ended well.

    I’m a lot more calm and comfortable now, but I don’t head to pubs or bars to meet people. Not my thing.

    Any interest I have now is the time I spend chatting to a match on a dating app and then meeting up in person.

    I really like meeting that person where the conversation just flows naturally, you look at the time and it’s been hours since you first met and didn’t even notice it.