20 September 2002

Apple was working on a new unified application or interface of some sort for dealing with our various online iApps, the .Mac stuff, all of that. And of course I was tasked with testing it. As is typically the case with my work-related dreams, the alarm clock going off mapped to new builds coming out, and my snoozing it mapped to installing and testing. Unfortunately, the requirements of the project mutated over time, so that not only was I testing the integration of iCal and iSync and such, but I also had to include the alarm clock itself, and then my cat Contessa as well. As long as she was lying curled up, still, and purring, then it was working well, but if she got up and paced around the bed and meowed and butted her head against stuff, there was a bug somewhere.