When my parents were up for a housewarming / birthday visit, my dad brought a box of fine cigars with him. My personal burn rate on cigars is approximately 2 or 3 per year…and I’m now the owner of 24 good ones. So I bought a humidor. A humidor is the humidified box that keeps your stogies fresh and pliable. It’s basically a cedar box with a hygrometer and a humidifier in it.
It’s been sort of fun “tuning” the box to maintain a 70% humidity. You wipe the inside of the box with a moist towel and then close it and allow the wood to absorb the water. Then you give it about an hour to stabilize. When the humidity gets to your desired level, you fill and install the humidifier.
The guy at the cigar store was archetypical. A smoked out cigar clamped in his teeth, phlegmatic mannerisms. If you had asked me to draw the owner of a cigar store, I would have drawn this guy, almost perfectly.
Back to the support lines. We’re buried in requests for custom work. It’s cool, but I’m cranking through two or three major cluster customizations per day. Fun and exhausting. Just wait ’till we ship the Linux version. Then we’re well and truly doomed.
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