A few months ago I blew out my right eye. Well, not literally. I had a small "bubble"
develop on my retina. "Pyro-something-gobbeldeegook". I'm not an M.D. I just suddenly
couldn't see very well out of my right eye. And that scared me.
"What are your hobbies?" asked the doc. I replied, "Drag racing, scuba diving, surfing,
voracious reading and Kempo karate."
"You're in good health otherwise?"
"Yeah…"
"Do you have a high pressure job?", asked the doc. "Yeah, well, I mean greater than the
guy ringing up purchases at the local bookstore…Duh?"
"Hmm." he said. "We do tend to see this syndrome more among type "A" personalities."
Huh? I don't profess to know any of the local jingle of the psychology world but I think
I know what "type A" means, basically, "ASSHOLE".
Hang on a minute. I don't want to be a type "A" personality do I? NO. I don't!
I recently worked on a software project that was, in my mind, really cool. It involved
communicating between the NT 2000 OS and Linux. It utilized a lot of very cool multiple
semaphores, XML, and a couple of tricks that I'm proud of but I'm pretty sure no one
here could appreciate. (No disrespect here intended. I do what I do. If you're not in the
bis it only probably doesn't make much sense – that's all).
And I have a boss. Until I'm king of the world, I'll always have a boss. She's a GS-13.
(rich rule #1, rule #1, rule#1) We have a refrigerator at work. I freeze a bottle of water
when I leave for the day. Next day I have ice water for the day. No joke. She came along
one day and asked, "How did you get that big ice cube in the bottle?" No really!
So I spend a week programming the hell out of this project. End of the week I have a
solution that shows up on the screen as, literally, "woohooo". My peers are all like, "way
to go man!" and "good job dude!". It's called proof of concept. From her I got, "Guess
you didn't have much productivity this week…." (or something like that)
In the end, I guess I am a type "A" personality. Sorta proud of it. And I feel better now.
This asshole is working on a piece called "The happy idiot". Stay tuned.
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