---
title: "I'm not really here, sorry."
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/2/7/im-not-really-here-sorry.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/2/7/im-not-really-here-sorry.html"
published: "2005-02-07T21:15:00"
updated: "2005-02-07T21:15:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "I know. You've missed me like hell. I've been staying along with my wife at a friend's house (they're on a trip and we're house-sitting). The Internet connection there sucks, but that is easily compensated by the fact…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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# I'm not really here, sorry.

By Roy Osherove February 7, 2005 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published February 7, 2005; technical details may be outdated.

I know. You've missed me like hell.

I've been staying along with my wife at a friend's house (they're on a trip and we're house-sitting). The Internet connection there sucks, but that is easily compensated by the fact that they have a 72 inch TV with surround sound, a Jacuzzi, and a trampoline in the (really big) back yard. So, It's like a small vacation for us as well.

I'll be a little more active again starting from about a week or two from now. Until then I hope I can sometime sneak in and write something here.

Don't miss me too much. There are lots of great reading places you should visit daily. Like [this](http://www.larkware.com/), [this](http://www.codebetter.com/) and [this](http://www.testdriven.com/).

Oh, BTW - [Business](http://www.teamagile.com/) is definitely looking up! Yey!

## More in Off Topic

[All posts in Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

- Feb 24, 2005

    ### [Lesson of the day: don't be a pompous windbag](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/2/24/lesson-of-the-day-dont-be-a-pompous-windbag.html)

- Feb 21, 2005

    ### [Congratulations to Yosi Taguri!](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/2/21/congratulations-to-yosi-taguri.html)

- Feb 2, 2005

    ### [Pics from my Magen farewell dinner](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/2/2/pics-from-my-magen-farewell-dinner.html)

- Jan 27, 2005

    ### [Silly bickering](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/1/27/silly-bickering.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/