The Tells: I've got a life!

Day Books: 27-June-95 (Tue) 21:33 - Doubletree Hotel - Crystal City, VA

Man, you have got to get a life.
"It's worse than that - he's dead, Jim!"
He's got a life - it's just not like yours and mine.
"It's life, Jim, but not as we know it!"

I'm living my life in cyberspace right now because it's the only life I've got at the moment. My life consists of documenting my life as HTML and GIF files on a disk-farm in New England that's connected to the Internet. I think that if I do it well enough, people will pay me for the skills that I acquire by doing it. It's not even close to a "normal" life.

Speaking of what kind of a life I have, the only Really Important Thing about it is if it is a Good Life, and that is a Very Subjective Question. (See Frequently Asked Questions)

The drive down on Sunday was … long. I left at 08:00 and didn't check into the hotel until 02:30. OTOH, I spent a couple of hours in a Bel Air, MD restaurant with Linda because I got a cramp in my leg from an hour of stop&go driving, and didn't reach Varnum Street until around midnight. I arrived at the hotel around 03:30, and it took two trips with the cart to unload the Adm. Gracie.

Today I was declared "Geek of the Week" for having brought an entire 486 PC with (color scanner and color plotter) to the meeting and setting it up in my hotel room. Alan Peltzman was declared "SuperGeek" for having the Q4'93 RFC mail ballot and comments with him at the Drafting Committee meeting and thus help to reconcile the RFC tracking logs.

Brucilla (The Muscle) in Room 852 of the Doubletree Hotel - Crystal City, VA (IPO Meeting) 27-Jun-95

I've been reduced to driving 60 miles round-trip each day to work for six hours at two ounces of silver (ten dollars) per hour. When I was a Principal Engineer for an international CAD/CAM vendor, I was paid five ounces of silver (26 dollars) per hour, or half an ounce of gold per day.

I need 160 ounces of silver (two ounces of gold) to pay my rent for the month. I have to drive 240 miles each week to earn 50 ounces of silver (25 hours of work). I don't want to think about how much of that is spent on gas. (Thank God I don't have car payments, too!)

One of my "qualifications" for my present part-time employment was that "I don't have a life, so I'm willing to work Sundays and evenings." One of the rewards is that I have unlimited Internet access for free. I'd say that makes up for the mileage, since it would cost me 20 ounces of silver per month to purchase that kind of access on the open market.

Ya know, I was going somewhere with this, but I've lost it.

That's all I have to say. -=DAH=- 27-Jun-95

Last update: 30-Mar-96 by DAHarrod