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I visited a client yesterday. <\/p>\n

One of the few ‘they-just-call-us-once-a-year’ type of clients.<\/p>\n

It’s either they really know the program so well that a programmer’s interventions are not needed or they’re not using the program.<\/p>\n

Spent four hours on the road and bus… and just two hours in the client’s site.<\/p>\n

Yeah… one of those provincial visits where the time consumed by transportation is much more than the actual client interaction itself.<\/p>\n

Problem on site is not even programming related.<\/p>\n

Hardware crashed… not my scope but I helped anyway.<\/p>\n

Besides I need to update some modules. <\/p>\n

Main database file shows a record of 1,445<\/span> records. They must be using the system. <\/p>\n

I had the chance to talk to some heads too.<\/p>\n

Two of our main problems with clients for the past year are administration changes without proper turnovers and staff changes, also, without proper turnovers.<\/p>\n

Rode the bus home before the clock hit the 12<\/span> noon mark. <\/p>\n

The bus ride home is always one of the interesting events of this visit.<\/p>\n

The previous time I remember I felt like my pony-tail connected to the seat as if it was a cable connecting me to some moving Matrix-The-movie-like vehicle.<\/p>\n

I felt like I was one with that bus which is not a bus at all. <\/p>\n

Too surreal I can’t even describe it.<\/p>\n

Yesterday… half asleep, I believe I saw three, not just one, but three buildings that seemed to have transferred from the right side of the road to the left side. <\/p>\n

At least they were in the right side during my previous visit. <\/p>\n

That was 11<\/span> months ago. <\/p>\n

I’m quite sure those three huge buildings were on the left side of the road before.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

As if in that span of time they have developed movable feet of some sort and uhm… crossed the road.<\/p>\n

That and they were able to successfully mass-hypnotize the villagers in that place into thinking that nothing weird happened.<\/p>\n

That everything’s all right.<\/p>\n

You can’t fool me, you alien-beings-pretending-to-be-buildings! <\/p>\n

I wear my psionic helmet protection all the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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