While I wouldn’t go so far to say I have a Walter Mitty complex, I do have a tendency to romanticize my life. Maybe I’m just a software monkey, but being a software monkey isn’t so far from the action and adventure on TV, right? This idea has crept into my statuses lately. A few days back I posted on Twitter:

Putting error reports together to find the root problem is makes me feel like I’m in a CSI episode with much worse lighting.

And then yesterday I posted as my Google status:

Do you remember that TV show about the software team lead who played by his own rulebook but always got the project in on time? Thank god that never show never existed.

That status in particular was picked up by my friends Matt and Dave, who sent quotes from said fictional show:

• You’re off this case! I don’t want you messing around with the search module again! From now on you’re on UI duty, do you hear me?!
• Look out, that JIRA is rigged to explode! Looks like somebody’s trying to send us a message…
• I hear he’s a bad mother…shut your mouth!
• It all makes sense… this thing goes all the way to the top. Of the stack.
• You only forgot one thing… that document was preapproved!  (kaboom)
• You may escape this time Diego, but the bug will be fixed! You hear me?
• My extreme programming partner was killed just two days before his release party. Now I’ve sworn revenge on the ones who axed his feature.
• You can’t lock the semaphore there man!!! Are you crazy?? You’re going to get us all killed!! Don’t you care about the schedule???
• I’m about to decrease your priority… permanently.
• You may think I’m not going to merge in these 50 files a week before mass production. You should ask yourself: “Do I feel lucky?” Well, do ya, punk?

Maybe my life is more exciting than I think.

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