Imagine you were born into a family where baseball isn’t just a sport. Your grandparents love baseball. Your parents love baseball. Your uncles, aunts, cousins, and all your extended family love baseball. And not just casually. Some of your relatives are professional baseball players. Some are coaches for professional teams. Others play for local teams, work in baseball, or are involved with baseball in one way or another. Baseball is everywhere. ...
Windows, Apparently
This is a continuation of yesterday’s Excel incident. If you haven’t read Day 1, you can read it here: Excel, Apparently: It was supposed to be just a search. I ended yesterday by deciding to leave the computer running overnight. The Excel operation had been going for more than two hours, and although Task Manager still showed signs of activity, I had no idea whether Excel was actually making progress or simply spending CPU time doing something mysterious. ...
Excel, Apparently
There are some computer problems that are genuinely serious. A hard drive dies. A database becomes corrupted. A server goes down. A backup turns out not to be a backup. And then there are the problems that are, objectively, not serious at all—but somehow manage to consume an unreasonable portion of your day. Today, I experienced exactly that. It started with something so simple that I would normally never remember it. ...
Everybody Is Doing Something
At any given moment, everybody is doing something. Someone is waking up. Someone is going to sleep. Someone is eating. Someone is drinking. Someone is cooking. Someone is washing the dishes. Someone is taking a shower. Someone is brushing their teeth. Someone is getting dressed. Someone is leaving home. Someone is coming home. Someone is walking. Someone is running. Someone is driving. Someone is riding a bicycle. Someone is sitting on a train. Someone is waiting for a bus. Someone is waiting for someone. Someone is working. Someone is studying. Someone is reading. Someone is writing. Someone is building something. Someone is fixing something. Someone is cleaning something. Someone is selling something. Someone is buying something. Someone is making something. Someone is destroying something. Someone is planning something. Someone is worrying about something. Someone is thinking about the future. Someone is thinking about the past. Someone is thinking about nothing in particular. Someone is looking at the sky. Someone is looking at a screen. Someone is looking at another person. Someone is looking for something. Someone is searching for an answer. Someone is searching for a place to go. Someone is searching for someone to love. Someone is laughing. Someone is crying. Someone is smiling. Someone is angry. Someone is scared. Someone is excited. Someone is bored. Someone is lonely. Someone is surrounded by people. Someone is completely alone. Someone is meeting someone for the first time. Someone is meeting someone for the last time. Someone is falling in love. Someone is falling out of love. Someone is getting married. Someone is getting divorced. Someone is having a baby. Someone is holding a baby. Someone is watching a child grow. Someone is saying goodbye to a parent. Someone is remembering someone who is no longer here. Someone is being born. Someone is dying. ...
That Thing Carried Me Here
There are moments when I look up at the sky and see something moving quietly above me. A small shape, almost disappearing into the endless blue. For most people, it may simply be a way to reach somewhere else. A vacation. A business trip. A place they always wanted to visit someday. But for me, it has always meant something more. It is a reminder of a distance that once felt impossible. ...