[16:39] merry x-mas to everyone! [17:32] happy hannukkah :) [17:35] pleia2 hope u are alright again ... read your tweets about hospital [17:35] thanks, I'm still quite sick, but at least I'm home :) [17:41] pleia2 may i ask what happened? [17:42] food poisoning [17:42] :/ [17:43] * SilverLion has been honored this week for doing his job :( [17:43] congrats! [17:43] did nothing special [17:43] it's nice to be noticed though :) [17:46] i am trained as a medic ... several months before i was tasked to serve as medic and had to seem a forearm of a woman [17:47] noticed that her Circulatory problems were worse then expected first and called a Helicopter for assistance against the will of the husband of that woman [17:49] and yesterday suddenly my mobile rang and a voice asked me to come to the mayor (?) s Office where i was given a speech of honor and a pen because shortly after arriving at the hospital that woman fell into coma [17:49] and the doctors would not have been able to cure her if she had waited even 5 mins longer [17:50] that is the story behind [17:50] wow! [17:50] sounds like you did very good work :) worthy of being noticed [17:50] that is nothing to be proud of ... i did the job i was trained for [17:52] well, sometimes it's important to be recognised even for that [17:53] yeah but that husband offered me money to say "thank you" and in my opinion a human live is more worth then money [17:53] dont you agree?` [17:53] personally I'd decline money and accept a verbal "thank you" [17:54] but I am not much of a money person [17:54] as am I pleia2 as am I [17:55] I offered him the deal to put that money he offered me personally into the bank account of my EMT-Unit where it is needed to support a project in central russia (bying clothes etc.) [17:55] good idea! [17:56] but i took the pen ;) [17:56] It's a real beauty ;) [17:56] hehe [17:57] and - if everything goes well - i might be on the Full Circle Magazine Podcast to talk about my work (layouting Ebooks!) [17:58] yay :) [18:00] so ... finishing up my work for the day [18:01] good luck [18:01] i was allowed to work from home today *happy* [18:02] that makes it so much more comfortable [18:02] nice [18:04] pleia2 do you mind a personal question? [18:05] ask away [18:05] pleia2 what are you doing for a living? [18:05] i mean ... you are doing a lot for this community, aren't you? [18:06] linux systems administrator, currently working for a little tech services provider in Philadelphia, but in a couple weeks I'm going to start working for Hewlett Packard [18:07] that's cool. I'll keep that in mind ... just in case i need a new printer :D [18:07] I don't kids yet, don't have much of a social life, don't really watch TV and my fiance works a lot (he works at google), so I have a lot of free time :) [18:07] hehe [18:07] when I told my mother I'd be working for HP she said "Oh! they make printers!" [18:07] I'll actually be working on OpenStack [18:07] *gg* [18:08] so my open source skills are super important [18:08] * SilverLion works for a german energy supplier as customer care agent [18:08] * SilverLion is offered to become a junior php developer [18:08] will you become a php dev? [18:09] well its a kind one step up the ladder of career in this company, u know... so I think I might, yes... playing with php a lot lately [18:10] cool :) [18:10] and its not only php dev its also managing employees user accounts etc [18:11] such stuff as active Directory Management [18:11] sounds like those will be useful skills [18:12] AD Management I already did before in my jobs (before I signed as Agent in the current company