Geeks never truly retire
Part of the life description for anyone with technical skills is that you don’t get to retire. Sure, the salary and benefits diminish. But seriously, do you think that those with the sort of problems that require an intervention care?
Ask any nurse (doctors don’t give free consultations). Or a mechanic. For sure, those who dabble in data, as hardware/network technicians are sought out. I’m OK with that, within limits. Today, I acquired cabling for a printer, formatted a hard drive to be multi-platform, did deep dive surgery on a laptop to replace the battery pack and sorted out connectors on a high end motherboard. Most of the study was carried out on the kitchen table, because it’s at home that such things reach a crucial level of importance.
Tomorrow, I’ll be in another city, with other crises to avert. That’s how I roll, as a recently retired computer geek.
on a sude note, we borrowed a car for a quick shopping trip that led us to the local Walmart. Lots of parking. We made one rookie mistake, by not noting where in that big lot we had left the car; coming out, it was clear that small, grey four-door subcompacts. Worse, we had very little pertinent data to go on, other than the logo on the ignition key. No door to door trials, but close.
For lunch, we stopped in to see our coffee dealer. The one that delivers the bean we deserve, via the postal system. Most of our contact hinges on email, so actually visiting the shop for a tasty panini and “allongée” made for good flavours. I didn’t buy any more mugs (yes, you can have too many) but we bought some beans for son #1. To show our appreciation for his back yard parking and access to wifi…
