Cathy sent me this ad yesterday, mostly to tease me but also to remind me — hey, buster! — you’ve sure had your head stuck up Jezebel’s USB port a lot recently. It’s true. I’ve been gaming more than I have since Civilization II days, a long, long time ago, and work-related concerns seems to be occupy a lot more of my thought processes. Alas, it’s true — I spend the vast majority of my energy, ingenuity, and care on cold, loveless circuitry. Beautiful, shiny circuitry…
Nevertheless, compared to the days when I’d wake up, sweating and agitated, from dreams of writing code — when more than half of my income was from overtime and my boss disallowed me to take an hour off of a long, long day to go home for dinner — when I stopped bathing for days at a time and subsisted on pizza and coca cola and coffee — my oh my but these are such remarkably well-balanced times. I count myself very fortunate indeed to be wearing my nondescript brown leather shoes.
They’re very comfortable and they only look boring.
