When people ask me what I do for a living, I automatically spit out a practiced phrase: "I work in the recovery and recycling of polycyclic organophosphanes." They leave me alone after that. Doctors understand. If people know that you really work with computers in some manner -- no matter how far removed from home PC maintenance it might be --  they figure you'll be happy to help them with their problem in your off time.

Funny how that knife so rarely cuts in both directions.

Poll: Holidays and family?
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