. . .normal service will be resumed shortly as I was up until 11pm on Friday and need some sleep.  This entry may have an update on Saturday, after 8:30am MST.
Update: On Friday, after work, I went out to dinner with Reuben, Michelle, and Ed from the old company. We talked about regular life [...]

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Sometimes, even the Corgis disapprove.
Almost nothing happened on Thursday. Nice change of pace, that. I left the cube farm at the usual time, then had to turn around and go back for my jacket. I haven’t worn a jacket since early February, so I’m out of the habit of wearing one. [...]

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We’ve gone right past ridiculous into ludicrous. Most guinea pigs won’t sit still for this sort of thing.
Wednesday had all the usual stuff, except that I poked my nose out the door in the morning and said, “Dang, it’s cold.” So I wore a jacket to work. It was about 52 F. [...]

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Tuesday was actually reasonably good. There was only one annoying bit, where someone burned popcorn and set off the dang fire alarm, which wasted 15 minutes of everyone’s time. Also, I think I got 3 trouble tickets in the span of 10 minutes that afternoon. They weren’t that difficult to fix, just [...]

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This image showed up while I was searching for completely different junk on Wikipedia the other day. For years, I could see this disused shafthouse from the attic window.
Monday was OK. However, for some reason, they didn’t plug the network cable into the new machine we got. This makes doing things with [...]

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Sunday, I got to play the demo for Brütal Legend. That was actually a pretty good demo, containing humor, action, and an interesting approach to the game’s rating. Right before the main character starts swearing, the game pauses, and you’re given two choices: “I want to hear every swear word” or “It’s [...]

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Last week, apparently Patty and Spencer had some sort of event. Of course, they didn’t e-mail or call anyone; they sent out invitations via Facebook. I don’t have a Facebook account—I have this dedicated virtual host, where I can run whatever I want and post whatever I want, and no disinterested corporate entity [...]

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Caturday, and the cats who got dressed up are very irritated.
Friday was pretty normal. One of the database machines hiccuped, and dealing with that took some time and effort. And then we all went to lunch, which was fine, except that I ordered a combo meal that cost $9.50 and I only had [...]

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Always be careful when bathing your capybaras.
Not much happened Thursday. I guess this can be a good thing. Nothing fell over, most crises were averted, a few things got done, and so forth. An electrical fire caused an ammo+fireworks explosion, which might have been newsworthy, but caught my eye because a couple [...]

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Cats can sleep in the strangest places.
Wednesday, I spent some of the morning at the bloodmobile giving blood. They usually take over one of the conference rooms upstairs, but they had a bloodmobile this time. I think the people they had running the show in the bloodmobile were a bit more experienced than [...]

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