Beware the punk squirrels. Everybody was at work on Monday, for the first time in about a month. So of course, we had to figure out when to hold the meetings, since everyone’s schedule had changed. Also, there are about 20 outfield tickets to the D-Backs/Pirates game this Sunday that are available. I might try [...]

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This is “300″ combined with, Hell, Michigan, picked mostly because the picture is sort of relevant to the book about ancient Greek and Roman war that I’ve been reading. Let’s see. . . discipline was always more important in the Roman army than in the Greek army, but Roman soldiers frequently disobeyed orders and did [...]

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The high temp yesterday was 113 F. Like this guinea pig, I didn’t really want to get up. But I had to return library books and get groceries. I got the last book in the Book of the Long Sun, a book about warfare as practiced in ancient Greece and ancient Rome, and a book [...]

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Caturday, and the cats are all wearing camo. The sky in the East Valley got really cloudy and dark on Friday night, but there wasn’t any rain to speak of. Friday was annoying in some ways. They wanted something done really quickly, I started working on it, I kept running into totally weird problems that [...]

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Seriously, I don’t think this was in the sacred texts of any religion I’ve ever heard of. But whatever. Not a whole lot to report for Thursday, either. I forgot to mention that on Wednesday, the bus’s AC failed, so the driver stopped the bus and we had to wait 20 minutes for another bus. [...]

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Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, now with more aliens. Where’s Ellen Ripley with a flamethrower when you need her? The other people on my team were sick with minor ailments and either worked from home or worked a half day yesterday. I tried to stay ahead of the upgrade treadmill and [...]

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This has never happened. It’s still fun to think about it happening to someone else. The title of the image references a short film called “405″ that’s kind of old. Somehow, the virtual machine I’ve got this site hosted on fell over and died at about 12pm MST. This isn’t the first time this has [...]

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I don’t think this would go over very well at all. Not a whole lot to say about Monday. A few things weren’t working right when I got in, but those were easy to fix. I checked and found out that all of my library books are due on Saturday, which is not great as [...]

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Sometimes, there are things that should be obvious. I guess this isn’t one of them. It was still really, really hot on Sunday. I only ventured outside briefly, mostly to take the garbage out. Through a chain of various Net searches and forums, I ended up at the Barbie Dream Hearse page, which is just [...]

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This has nothing to do with anything, and is just silly. It was 113 F on Saturday, and is going to be a similar temp today. I’m planning on not going out much. Hm. . . been reading Caldé of the Long Sun, by Gene Wolfe. This book adds a new wrinkle to Wolfe’s long [...]

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