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crapped on again

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2017.10.09

I was crapped on by a bird again, today - for the fifteenth time in my life. Oddly, it happened the day I received a comment on my story about luck and birdcrap. Ah, for the innocent times (up until this morning) when I'd only been crapped on by fourteen birds.

I'd be glad of a dose of luck. I spent half the morning fixing my phone after "soft bricking" the thing while trying to obtain root access.

rand()m quote

One day you will take a fork in the road, and you're going to have to make a decision about which direction you want to go. If you go one way, you can be somebody. You will have to make compromises and you will have to turn your back on your friends. But you will be a member of the club and you will get promoted and get good assignments. Or you can go the other way and you can do something [...] for yourself. If you decide to do something, you may not get promoted and get good assignments and you certainly will not be a favorite of your superiors. But you won't have to compromise yourself. To be somebody or to do something. In life there is often a roll call. That's when you have to make a decision. To be or to do.

—John Boyd, US Air Force