Luke Oliver

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55: Tech Support, in the house

Today was very lazy. To be fair, I was awake for something like 22 hours yesterday, so I was beat, but I still feel like I should have gotten more done today than I did.

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54: Homeward Bound, if only for the moment

It has been a long day. I woke up this morning in DC at 4:30 AM, rolled out of bed, packed the last of my things, and then ubered to the airport. The flight was scheduled for 7:06 or something, so I was significantly early, but I always

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53: Launched from a Dream

The title today is in reference to my experience this morning with dreaming and waking up, a new one for me. I was dreaming something relatively normal, if memory serves (and it better, even though this is all made up) I was eating dinner with some friends I hadn'

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52: 3 whole PBBJ's for lunch

Penultimate day! Today was great. The title is in reference to my lunch, which consisted of three (3) peanut butter and banana and jelly sandwiches, which were sublime, actually. I had planned to eat the bread and banana I had packed (my jelly [jam, actually, but who's keeping

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51: A Lovely Day Indeed

As the title suggests, today was lovely. The temperature was significantly reduced as compared to the average (I think the high today was like 73), and it was a nice overcast all day, so the sun didn't add any heat when outside.

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50: Luke - 1 | Luggage - 0

I hate stuff. By which I of course mean that I love things on the individual level, but as a collective "stuff" with which to contend, my individual affections are quickly drowned out by the volume of things, and my need for each of them to have their

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49: brain hertz

I have had a splitting headache for like the past two hours; it is not a good time. I took some ibuprofen to hopefully maybe help, and I'm going to go to bed right after I finish this post (it is pretty late), so hopefully it's

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48: The Keyboard that sounds like water

Today was a good day! It's a Friday, obviously, so I get to crash into the weekend, like a sinking fleet. I got to both build my Lego set that was waiting for me, and watch two episodes of Bridgerton, which I have been loving.

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47: "We have to balance ALL management decisions"

This quote is from the all-staff meeting today, wherein we discussed the cyclical and often contradictory management directives, as well as the precise way in which we will collectively dodge the no-snacks ruling.

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46: Models? Ruined. Keynotes? Mismatched

Guh. Today at work was technically rough. The work itself isn't that difficult, but at three separate times today I made the discovery that something integral was misaligned and we had to fundamentally re-work the system.

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45: I had a good idea for the title for earlier today, but I seem to have forgotten it

Today was good, though that outlook comes from a couple specific events, not from broad strokes. Most of today was kind of bland, but there are a couple good things that happened.

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44: Keynote jail is new

I keep having to go back and check which photos I've used and which ones I haven't. I always think I've used more photos than I have. I still haven't processed the photos from Saturday, and I don't even remember

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43: Who needs a good title anyway?

I had absolutely no clue what to title this one, so there ya go.

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42: A day of completions

Another Saturday in the books! Today was more accomplished than most of my Saturdays have been this summer, but not because it was hard or I did many things, simply that the timing worked out for me to finish 1984, Bridgerton Season 2, and my silly little Medium Voltage Switchgear

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41: And then there was one

Today was the last day of every other intern, but it was a good one.

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40: "Skip the spinning rims, we're on the clock!"

The quote for today comes courtesy of one of my coworkers, who was in turn quoting Tony Stank from The Avengers (I did misspell his name on purpose this time Dad, it's a reference). He mentioned the line while talking to one of the other interns, who had

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39: The Ministry of Truth (it's me)

The title is a joke about George Orwell's 1984, which I started reading today because I was bored at work. I made it about 1/3 of the way through the book, because I truly only had maybe an hour of actual work to do today. The full

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38: I still haven't made my lunch

I just realized I haven't made my lunch for tomorrow yet, which is annoying, because writing this is usually the thing I do right before going to bed, and that disruption to my routine will be off-putting.

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37: "It's a lot quieter around here without the primary chaos engines"

I don't have a ton to talk about today. The quote above is from one of my coworkers at work today, the two interns that left at the end of last week were the two, shall we say, "primary antagonists" in much of the conversation that

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36: New Welcome Page!

I reworked my page somewhat today, so it's a little more approachable for someone who hasn't visited it. There's now a banner at the top asking people to look at the Welcome page unless they're signed in, and I made placeholder pages

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35: And once again, all is right

I've had another very productive Saturday, during which I got out of bed at ~2 PM, didn't leave the apartment, and accomplished very little.

34: Crash (into the weekend [again])

I tired.

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33: Eugh

I am writing this at 12:18 AM, which is not a time I should be awake. Today has been somewhat of a rollercoaster. It was fantastic until about 8 PM, when I had a server SNAFU that I've been trying to troubleshoot for the last three and

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32: Trickshots

Today was a lot of fun! We had a work event at a pool hall nearby (as can be seen above) and had a little intern+engineer tournament, which was a really good time. I (kinda) made it to the semi-finals, and learned I'm not as bad at

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31: Short Memory, must have a...

There was a quote that I had been planning to use for the title of this post, something one of the other interns said that I found hilarious, but I have fully forgotten whatever it was I wanted to say. So it goes.