Just learned that a person I knew here in IT — someone who, in fact, I hired, supervised, worked with, shot pool with, and eventually helped find a position in another office — passed away from a heart attack at his house sometime Monday.<\/p>\n
Hrm.<\/p>\n
Now, granted, if I’d had to point to one person I knew in IT who was liable to die of such a cause, it would be this person. Not possessing the healthiest of lifestyles, and prone, on occasions, to both high stress and high anger.<\/p>\n
Still, I will miss this person, even with as little contact as we had over the past few years. And I’ll think a bit more about my own mortality, too.<\/p>\n
\nUPDATE<\/u>: And, in one of those weird Serlingesque moments that sometimes happen, today at lunch I ran into another person who worked with me and the deceased for some years (and had been on the deceased’s pool team) — and whom I hadn’t seen in at least a year. It was unfortunately that I had to be the bearer of ill tidings …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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