Spent most of Saturday with Zach and a couple of guys he knows from Zombie Squad. We went to the gun show first, where we looked around for all kinds of stuff. I was thinking about getting a holster for my Taurus .45, but there were so many holsters available and so many [...]

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Friday was pretty good. Ordinary work stuff, then we all had lunch at the Paradise Café, which I hadn’t been to in months. I suggested it, and Sherry said, “All right!” so that worked well. They’ve got good food, and it’s mostly local, so I thought this lizard was appropriate.
Afternoon was mostly [...]

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Classic longcat. There’s always room for the classics.
Thursday was reasonably normal except for a barrage of dumb that happened between 12:30 and 2pm. It didn’t make any sense at all, but we figured out a way that should stop it from happening again. Why was something that should’ve loaded a file once [...]

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Wednesday, they were having a blood drive at work, so I donated. I felt bad about missing the blood drive they did in December because I was on vacation. Anyway, the donation wasn’t that bad. What hurt more (and still hurts, as of 9pm Wednesday) was the finger poke they do to [...]

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When I got my new phone Monday night, I ran through the activation procedure. Everything looked like it worked. I didn’t make any calls or send any texts that night, because I didn’t need to, and I didn’t expect to receive any calls, so I didn’t think it was odd that I didn’t [...]

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The new cellphone showed up today. It’s smaller than the old one, but it doesn’t flip. At least texting on it should be easier and faster with the keyboard. And I can assign ringtones to people now, so that I know who’s calling before picking up. This might be useful.
Also changed [...]

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Owls getting confused? It’s more likely than you think.
Sunday had some work annoyance first thing in the morning. Something fell over at about 1am, and nobody noticed until I woke up, so I had to fix that. Then I spent some time fiddling with this site, putting in a database abstraction layer, [...]

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Some artist put together a painting of Jesus showing the Constitution to a bunch of the Founding Fathers. Some random Internet person altered that painting to produce the image above. I don’t know; the US Constitution isn’t perfect, but it’s a lot better than the bureaucratic tangle we’ve got now.
Saturday was relatively quiet. [...]

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Friday seemed like it had a lot going on. Lots of talking, very little reading on the bus. Work had normal stuff, a completely intractable problem that made absolutely no sense, and the news that if we get new hardware, it’ll be delayed for months and months. This is not that surprising, [...]

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Baby wombat in a box? Yeah, we’ve got that.
Recently, I’ve been reading Forever Peace, by Joe Haldeman. This is sort of interesting, because I read that book 11 years ago, and now I can look at it with a slightly more mature perspective. Haldeman’s not the world’s greatest author—not all the characters [...]

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