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.

¶ 2:00 PM