I was a Linux admin on a team of fourteen. A Windows Server admin bragged at his server had gone a full two months without a reboot.

In fact, it was 65 days. The other Windows admins congratulated him. He came over to tell me the news, which I already overheard and sshed in to check my uptime.

"821 days uptime." He got disappointed. That's cool, because he was a jerk for many reasons.

But deep inside, I realized I needed to stay late after the call center closed, as it is a good idea to apply kernal patches to your firewall.