And of course the tall, dark ale I'm referring to is none other than a cold Guinness, straight off the tap.

Did you ever have one of those days, where you get woken up with a phone call with a frantic co-worker on the other end shouting, "The server's down"? And then when you try to bring up the backup, it won't come up? And then issues with DNS caching, code portability, and upstream connections? And every minute that ticks by, that's somebody's hourly wage that goes in the rubbish bin?

I love my job. I get to fix things all day long, and about 3 out of 4 times, I get a pat on the back. That's a lot better odds than when I was at unnamed technology company, and I was lucky to get a smiley in my chat window, even though I just saved the team a week of work trying to fix a nasty problem.

Where's the love? It's right here, baby! :-) I think I'll celebrate with a nice, tall dark ale.

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Today is Valentine's Day.

What is Valentine's Day anyway? Some say the modern incarnation was a marketing ploy by greeting card companies. Some link the holiday to pagan fertility festivals. Others trace the tradition all the way back to Ancient times, and all through the rise of the Catholic Church.

I personally believe it was created as a way to make all the single folk feel bad about being single.

But this year is different.

As a matter of fact, I have a hot date. And this year, it's not with a kitchen. This year, I have my lovely fiancée to keep me company. It's been a whole year since she was my soux chef at the coffee shop. In some ways it seems like it's been forever, and in other ways it seems just like yesterday.

On some level, you could probably say that I got shot in the bum with an arrow last year. It just took a little while for The Stuff to kick in. Not that I'm complaining.

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