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                My alarm clock sounded suspiciously like a phone
                                        
Ring. 

Ring. 

Ring. 

“Mughuwaha?” 

“Sean,” said Smirk. “You awake?” 

“Mughuawhaha,” I said. 

“Our customer S is complaining about network lag, what's the address of their
installation of Cacti [1]?” I gave Smirk the address, and he was able to log
in. “Thanks.” 

I fall back asleep again. 

Ring. 

Ring. 

Ring. 

“Hugmugahwah?” 

“Sean!” It was Smirk yet again. “Somethings wrong with their installation of
Cacti—there's no data for the past two weeks.” Oh great, I thought. “Can you
look into it?” 

“Yeah,” I said, resigning myself to the fact that yes, I am getting up early
today [2]. 

[1] http://cacti.net/
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Phlog:2007/01/31

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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