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Cake day: November 21st, 2023

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  • Find a VAR. listen to the needs of your partner, talk to the VAR and set up sales calls.

    Get pricing. Find out if they offer multiple year discounts.

    Set up a ticketing system.

    Fix the VARs quotes and forward them to your partner, wait for approval.

    Follow up in a week.

    Follow up in 2 weeks, explain that the quotes expire.

    Work late Friday night patching for a 0-day, missing out on date night.

    Find out Broadcom bought your homes plumbing and pay 3x what it cost to install to use it for another year.

    Your kid got a call from Microsoft and now you can’t access email, fix that ASAP.















  • A friend of mine recently retired. He said that his financial advisor said he was fine to retire at any time, but he was doing easy hybrid remote work and thought to keep working to save up a little more.

    While this was happening, he reconnected with an old girlfriend out of state. He’d visit her once a month or so. They made plans for him to move out there once he retired.

    He eventually retired and had moved out to be with his girl. After a few months her cancer came back and took her out within a month.

    That was maybe 4 months ago. He told me the two biggest regrets he has is not retiring earlier, and not spending more money. It went unspoken that he wanted to have spent more time with his lady.

    I’m not one to cry, but taking the train home after that chat had my eyes welled up.