Okay, another note to self...

I most certainly can not log in to the UNIX servers here in the office as user ID "feren." Forgetting this mental note is only going to lead to another fifteen-minute debug session as I try to figure out why the server won't let me in despite my providing it with login credentials that I thought are legitimate (and they are legitimate... just not at work!). It simply is not going to work.

I may use this name interchangably with the one my parents gave me when dealing with humans, but the Solaris systems are far less forgiving.

When will Solaris allow symbolic linking of usernames? When? WHEN?!

Okay, another note to self...

I most certainly can not log in to the UNIX servers here in the office as user ID "feren." Forgetting this mental note is only going to lead to another fifteen-minute debug session as I try to figure out why the server won't let me in despite my providing it with login credentials that I thought are legitimate (and they are legitimate... just not at work!). It simply is not going to work.

I may use this name interchangably with the one my parents gave me when dealing with humans, but the Solaris systems are far less forgiving.

When will Solaris allow symbolic linking of usernames? When? WHEN?!

A single point in time....

Have you ever had a moment, a split second in time where everything was perfect and all that surrounded you was stripped of consequence? A brief flash where you felt safe and loved and utterly invincible, suffused with a sense that everything was as it should be? Did you feel as if you could barely survive it, that in another thought's time your very heart could burst from the sheer magnitude of it all? Did you wish you could be lost in it forever?

I'm having one of those moments right now.

I want it to last for another second, a minute, an hour, a lifetime. I imagine it could last forever if I can just find the courage to reach out and seize that moment in my hands. I want to lose myself in this feeling, yet I'm afraid to -- I don't know if I can withstand it. My heart is not used to feeling this overwhelmed by emotion, I am not accustomed to having this much feeling coursing through me.

I think I know now what it feels like to be struck by lightening, to have that much power surging through my body and spirit.

I don't know if I can ever find an adequate way to thank her.

A single point in time....

Have you ever had a moment, a split second in time where everything was perfect and all that surrounded you was stripped of consequence? A brief flash where you felt safe and loved and utterly invincible, suffused with a sense that everything was as it should be? Did you feel as if you could barely survive it, that in another thought's time your very heart could burst from the sheer magnitude of it all? Did you wish you could be lost in it forever?

I'm having one of those moments right now.

I want it to last for another second, a minute, an hour, a lifetime. I imagine it could last forever if I can just find the courage to reach out and seize that moment in my hands. I want to lose myself in this feeling, yet I'm afraid to -- I don't know if I can withstand it. My heart is not used to feeling this overwhelmed by emotion, I am not accustomed to having this much feeling coursing through me.

I think I know now what it feels like to be struck by lightening, to have that much power surging through my body and spirit.

I don't know if I can ever find an adequate way to thank her.