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A phone to wake you by
Ring.
Ring.
Silence.
Roll over sleep.
Ring.
Ring.
Pick up. “Um, hello?”
“Greetings and salutations,” my answering machine said. “This is area code …
” Grumble. Roll out of bed. Cross condo. Shut off answering machine and pick
up phone.
“Hello?”
Dead silence.
Grumble.
Listen to answering machine. Mark [1] going on about an exploit in bind 8.2.2
p5. Know about that. Knew about that for several months from a cow-orker at
work who couldn't locate the exploit.
Ring.
Blink.
Ring.
“Hello?”
“Hey Sean!” It's John, the paper millionaire of a dot com and he's entirely
too chipper this early in the … afternoon. “Are you awake?”
“No.”
“But it's four o'clock! What time did you get to bed?”
“Uh … ” My brain hurts. “Eight this morning?”
“You're still sleeping, aren't you? Well, give me a call later on. I know
what I want to do for my next big project.” He then hung up.
Grumble.
I hate waking up to the phone.
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