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This is what happens when night shifts happen to good nurses.

I’ve spent the last 8 months driving me wife to get rid of a ton of her stuff so that we could use more than the front 2 inches of every drawer, cupboard and closet in the house (of course, it’s her stuff that I find to be extraneous : ). Yesterday, while she was on her 2nd night of working 3 12-hour night shifts in a row, I sent her the following email (yes, that’s just the kind of nerd that I am):

 

The “shiny” stuff above the fridge is all kinds of silver and pewter that we never, ever use but must keep because someone in one of our families looked at it once a long time ago. Plus, who knows, the Pope could visit to try to convert us back. This was her complete reply after 25 hours of work, 6 hours of commute and 6 hours of sleep over 2 days:

 

From: Melissa Sells [mailto:msells@sellsbrothers.com]
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 8:27 AM
To: ‘Chris Sells’
Subject: RE: Moving the shiny stuff above the frig?

Is there something that you feel you need to put above the fridge? Are you planning on letting a midget live up there? Because I think that if you are going to let a midget live in the house, they have a right to have a room with a window or something. In that case, you should have them move into the cupboard under the counter in the laundry room and we can knock out a space for a window. It would also be a lot easier for them to get to without having to rig up some sort of ladder, as that would just take up more of your precious space. On the other hand, living above the fridge would give them easy access to the food, and we could have a string with a roll up ladder rigging. Although having easier access to the fridge may make them over eat and they may get wedged up in the space over the fridge, be unable to escape and then we will have to explain why we have that strange odor in the kitchen.

 

Is there any doubt why I love her? : )

Rory has posted his MSDN speaking schedule. I’m already signed up for the Portland, OR talk on August 26. I can’t wait to hear Rory regale us with “a demo-packed afternoon” where I will “gain valuable insight into .NET development.” Plus, we get “a sneak peek at what’s coming in ASP.NET 2.0!” What could be better? Come one, come all!

I can't tell you how much I loved Doom. I've probably played all of the Doom games back-to-back all the way through a half a dozen times over the last decade. And I was so excited about Doom 3, but David’s right: Star Wars is to Phantom Menace as Doom 1 is to Doom 3: much prettier but much less fun.

If you ignore Rory on IM, you get fun stuff like this:

Rory [Shut up] says:

Hey - are you really away, or are you faking it so that people like me won’t write to you?

Rory [Shut up] says:

Well. I guess you’re really away.

Rory [Shut up] writes:

Rory [Shut up] writes:

Rory [Shut up] writes:

Rory [Shut up] writes:

Rory [Let’s get stinky together]] writes:

I'm hanging out at the O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention today (downtown Portland) and I'm planning on bringing as many fun out of town open source geeks as I can to the Portland Nerd Dinner tonight. I make no guarantees, but if I find Linus, he's getting an invite. : )

Here.

Crappy Carl is giving away a crappy top-of-the-line Tablet PC to anyone that crappy fills in his crappy survey (and they don’t even have to listen to his crappy show to crappy win!).

BTW, Microsoft and SellsBrothers.com employees are not allowed to enter. Isn’t that crappy?!? : (

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I'll be bringing "the letter" to Wednesday’s PND (assuming I can remember this time).