What is a personal blog post if it isn't a snippet of autobiography anyway, right? I've written about parts of this for my old web site (the one hosted at home). I'm keeping this professional. It is likely that I'll post this again at some distant point in the future, but with more detail. For most of my professional life, I've been a computer programmer or computer administrator. This is my story....
I wrote the following, originally, for an ideas post at work. Then I cleaned it up a little to take out some "my company" specific examples and posted it on Linked-In. Then I remembered that I don't post enough content to my blog anymore, so here's a post with a link to a post. https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140701163145-41328787-team-building-tips-for-managers-from-agile?trk=mp-reader-card
I'm in a hotel in Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom. I'm in the UK on a four week business trip. I have exactly one friend in Devon who is not from work, and I had plans to hang out with her, and meet her husband today. I guess I should say that I had one friend in Devon who is not from work. Jenn Gabriel-Powell had an accident yesterday, suffered a subdural hematoma, and never recovered....
This tale starts in late June with extreme abdominal pain that, for at least four hours, I was convinced was just severe gas pain. I was sweating and shaking and curled up in a ball, and eventually asked Jen to get me to the emergency room. Well, x-rays, urine samples, and a contrast CAT scan later, and I was told that I had a Kidney stone descending into my bladder. That was 4mmx2mm, and too small for them to try to do anything specifically for....