I just gave 3+ weeks’ notice to my employer, and will soon be moving on. Wish me luck at the new companY!

Once upon a time there lived a Sysadmin. He started as a sysadmin at a tiny company, and soon decided he liked the work, and would need to find a larger place with more sysadmins like himself, in order to hone his craft. He found such a place, a search company with a nice Vista. He worked at the search company with many other sysadmins, sometimes leading a small group, and usually finding work that was fun, challenging, and interesting. He stayed there and flourished with his fellows for several years. ...

I remembered part of my dream last night, so I thought I would write it down. I’m a little fuzzy on what was happening in the story leading up to this but I remember this part pretty clearly. (Well, ok, it’s been embellished a little)

[I posted this in a comment to a friend, but I think I want to post it on its own too.] This last week I’ve been leveling my warlock. Got tired of Plaguelands and all that gathering of drops, so I cleared all my quests and hied myself to Hellfire Peninsula. Over three or four days I’ve completed all the quests except the (Dungeon) and two [70] quests, got the discovery and the questing achievements for the area, and moved on to Zangarmarsh. ...

It looks like Bunny most likely has lymphoma (i.e. cancer) at a moderate stage. We are both very sad about this, obviously. At this point we’re not sure where it is, or how bad it is, but we’re pretty sure we don’t want to go the chemo route. We want to focus on making sure he is not in pain and that he’s enjoying himself. We will keep everyone updated.

Here’s what I believe about health care in the US. 1. Everyone should have it. Every other industrialized country has decided that health care is a human right and has found a way to provide it to everyone. We should do the same. We should not let anyone else die or go broke because they don’t have health insurance. If Europe can do it, so can we. 2. Making a profit from health insurance isn’t right. ...

Here is a paraphrase of what I reported: Hello, I am having trouble finding NPC “Ringo” for quest “Lost”. After waiting 30 minutes we went and did something else, and checked back a couple of times in the next hour… still no NPC. Please check to make sure the NPC is in the correct place and let me know when I can try again to complete this quest. Thanks. Here is the reply I received: ...

I’m sad that even though I have a lot of friends that play WoW, they are all on different servers. I would love to hang out, chat, quest and even RP with my friends, but I hate having to pick and choose. If you play WoW, and especially if you might like to play, hang, chat, rp, quest, etc. with me, please comment here! I wish to know: What server(s) do you play on? Would you consider coming to another server occasionally? Would you move your chars to another server? If you did move to another server, who else would you try to convince to come with you? While playing, how much time do you spend grouping with others vs. soloing vs. RP vs. fishing/farming, or what? What times of day do you play?

Blizzard is no shining star in this matter either, though I’m willing to forgive one slip of the “respond with form letter” button. > Request ———————————— > Product: World of Warcraft > Category: Payment Issues > Subcategory: Credit or Debit Card > Description ——————————– > After a charge was declined by my bank, I called my bank (Chase) and they informed me that they are refusing all charges from Blizzard due to unusually high number of chargebacks. > I’m upset that I can’t use my favorite credit card (my only credit card, actually) for paying Blizzard. Can you update me on what Blizzard has done and what you plan to do to get back on board with Chase? > ...

Hello Chase team, I have had many declined transactions over the last two days, and because of these I have called and spoken to Fraud Operations representatives six times in the last 48 hours. Transactions that have been declined include: Buying books from Amazon, which I have done month after month for some years Paying for an online game, also something I do multiple times a month Paying for rental equipment from a music store, also at least monthly for many months Getting gas at a Shell station about a mile from my house that I’ve used many times before Getting gas at a different Shell station, after calling earlier the same day to complain about my earlier rejection at Shell ...