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"The one about working in Tech Support"

June 28, 2020 — Byte Breaker

Dear Sam,

I understand that you will join us in our overseas office. Congratulations on landing that job. It's good steady work. I've been doing it for the last ten years. You're still young so maybe I can give you some little wisdom that will help you in your working years to come.

Let me begin by shedding some light on phone calls.

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"The one about darkness, years and Kim"

June 28, 2020 — Byte Breaker

See that man sitting there? On the side of the bed? Wearing nothing but some boxers and a wifebeater. Let's zoom in some more. He looks like he did not touch a razor in ages. Smell is a little off there too. Curtains are closed, doing their best to stop the bright afternoon light from entering. And why the hell is he screaming at that mirror on the nightstand?

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Part II - 'Quack goes the ducky!'

June 28, 2020 — Byte Breaker

Read the complete story on 'midnight.pub'

"And then what..?" @bartender asks. He looks at me expectantly. To be totally honest I did not even notice I was talking out loud. Stress does strange things to a person. I decide to not show my surprise and casually ask where I was in the sad story that resembled my life.

"Your Japanese minivan. The crappy one!" he said while pouring a whiskey for the owner of the place that introduced himself as @m15o. I nod to the guy while pulling my focus back on my beer and the question of the barkeep.

"Yeah, sure... hold on." I finish the beer in one gulp, motion for another one and start talking.

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Part I - 'It was a dark and stormy night...'

June 27, 2020 — Byte Breaker

read the complete story on 'midnight.pub'

Man enters a bar with a rubber ducky and a Golden Retriever. It may sound like a bad joke but it's how I entered the Midnight pub. Open all hours but the party begins after midnight.

The yellow duck was placed on the counter and I decided on a bar stool myself. Lucky, the dog, made himself a home at my feet hoping for some peanuts to fall from drunken hands.

And it might very well be that those aforementioned fingers would be mine because I felt like hitting it tonight. Lost my job due to a virus sweeping the world.

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Corona tired...

April 14, 2020 — Byte Breaker

I'm tired of it all. The constant news-updates, the media, the numbers. I find myself longing for Corona free times.

The media is having a great time with it all. Imagine: they do not have to work very hard to cover the frontpage or their home-page. They just post some big headline with 'More Death' in chocolate letters and coast on through the day.

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Ponytail

April 13, 2020 — Byte Breaker

Yes. My Corona hair is getting long. No hairdressers open. No one to cut the grey manes. So you just let it grow? I have a freaking ponytale going on here people! What is this madness? What is happening?

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Saturday night

April 04, 2020 — Byte Breaker

Now, don't panic, but I think I might be transforming into an old man. I was reading. I was reading on a saturday night. Nothing wrong with that. But come on! What is happening here?

I admit, I was never the most adventureous one of the bunch, but reading?

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Things to do around the house

April 04, 2020 — Byte Breaker

Sometimes one feels lethargic. Nothing seems to be worth doing. There is always tomorrow.

But then you lift one box. And you think 'why not pick up some more?'. And before you know it there are no boxes left to pick up...

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