Originally Posted by onzedge (Post 3791555)

Back on October 17, 2007, I was travelling from ATL to SMF on the last flight of the day. While waiting for the plane to board (please note that I was not flying Delta much back then, so I had no status) I struck up a conversation with a woman (Katherine) who was also waiting for the flight. I do not do this as a rule.

We talked for a while and found that we were both headed home to Sacramento. She suggested that we have lunch at some time in the near future and I agreed. Anyway, we boarded the plane. I was in the exit row and she was near the rear. I promptly fell asleep for a while and when I woke up decided to head back to see her.

Amazingly, she had one of the very few open seats right next to her so I sat with her for most of the rest of the flight. We had a nice conversation and found that we each had similar upbringings and lived in some of the same places. It turns out that each of our fathers were retired US Navy Captains.

To cut to the chase, we began seeing each other seriously and married exactly a year later on October 17, 2008. We felt the date was meaningful because it was fate that brought us together in Atlanta.

Now we are approaching our 10-year anniversary next month. We are celebrating by taking a Delta flight back to Atlanta on the same day we met (October 17) and then staying at the Marriott Marquis for a few nights.

Originally Posted by Leingod (Post 3791507)

Wish I had that kind of fun in IT. It's why I made the move over to telecommunications.

Originally Posted by bunk (Post 3791568)

Open all your ports... Have all the fun you can handle!

Originally Posted by bunk (Post 3791565)

If they want to unload some of their workload let me know!
I had a DDOS attack on one of my clients a few years ago. That sucked because as an independent, I dont have anyone to bounce ideas off of. If your Internet Connection is disrupted, is your office SOL?

Originally Posted by Ghostvette (Post 3791535)

I'd love to work remotely, but since I build the silly thing, I'm stuck. :shakes head:

My break is going out to do installs. I get to go to new places, meet strange people (biomed folks are an odd bunch) and eat different food. I was in Spokane Monday & Tuesday, got there about noon on Monday and had time to explore a bit. I found a tobacco shop (!) and had a nice chat with the owner. I told him I was surprised to find a tobacco shop, considering the efforts Washington is going through to 'force' people to be healthy. He said "We are normal people on this side of the Cascades".... :rofl2:

I won't say my job is secure, but if I were to leave, they wouldn't have a clue about 99% of how to build this device. Oh there are drawings, work instructions and device history records, but the deep down 'ya gotta assemble it in this order' info isn't written down anywhere. The girl that I called 'the chief engineer' (had never assembled anything more complex than a wardrobe) decided she didn't want to incorporate the 'this is the exact order to assemble' in any of the documentation. :eek:

Originally Posted by bunk (Post 3791567)

They should make a movie about your story... Sleepless in Atlanta...or something like that... lol.. Congratulations!

Originally Posted by Rusty (Post 3791581)

Tribal knowledge. Have to love it. At the power plant. I was there when they built it. So I know what short cuts and bypasses they took. Management don't know what they did. They always came to me for answers on stuff.

Originally Posted by Leingod (Post 3791571)

I opened a few ports to utilize system status for my Avaya platform. That caused enough rogue IP handsets trying to register to my IPO that I ended up enabling gate keeping and taking down my whole phone system for a few minutes. :ugh2:

Originally Posted by onzedge (Post 3791555)

Back on October 17, 2007, I was travelling from ATL to SMF on the last flight of the day. While waiting for the plane to board (please note that I was not flying Delta much back then, so I had no status) I struck up a conversation with a woman (Katherine) who was also waiting for the flight. I do not do this as a rule.

We talked for a while and found that we were both headed home to Sacramento. She suggested that we have lunch at some time in the near future and I agreed. Anyway, we boarded the plane. I was in the exit row and she was near the rear. I promptly fell asleep for a while and when I woke up decided to head back to see her.

Amazingly, she had one of the very few open seats right next to her so I sat with her for most of the rest of the flight. We had a nice conversation and found that we each had similar upbringings and lived in some of the same places. It turns out that each of our fathers were retired US Navy Captains.

To cut to the chase, we began seeing each other seriously and married exactly a year later on October 17, 2008. We felt the date was meaningful because it was fate that brought us together in Atlanta.

Now we are approaching our 10-year anniversary next month. We are celebrating by taking a Delta flight back to Atlanta on the same day we met (October 17) and then staying at the Marriott Marquis for a few nights.

Originally Posted by bunk (Post 3791567)

They should make a movie about your story... Sleepless in Atlanta...or something like that... lol.. Congratulations!

Originally Posted by eastwest2300 (Post 3791587)

:tiphat:

I'm hoping to have the same fate sometime soon. Thanks for sharing.

Originally Posted by bunk (Post 3791584)

Your phones were trying to pull IPs from your IPO? I have an old PBX at one of my clients... dont have all the bells and whisltes, but its bulletproof.

Originally Posted by old guy (Post 3791594)

Fall is falling :ugh2: