Friday was relatively quiet. We all went out to Mi Amoebas for lunch. Then we (finally) got something that we had been waiting for for about 3 weeks done, and they wanted everything else done right then. That didn’t quite happen. But I made a valiant effort, only failing because of a script that appeared [...]

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Last night, after I’d published the blog entry and gone to bed, I got a call from work. Not a text message, a call. Something was screwed up, and I was supposed to fix it. It wasn’t really all that hard to fix, but it wasn’t fun getting up again when I’d just gone to [...]

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Wednesday wasn’t really much like this, but there was a totally bizarre problem that happened around noon. Finally tracked it down to memory running out on one server, which has never happened before. Well, that’s the breaks sometimes. Then there were a couple of totally predictable SNAFUs, followed by a problem that looks like a [...]

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You should always have an emergency backup hamster. Possibly one in your pocket. Tuesday at work seemed like one round after another of database problems and weird things happening with a badly documented internal app. Trivia: we didn’t get the good table in the back, but a table on the side that was a bit [...]

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Got back from the basketball game very late. The Suns won, which was nice to see. I may update this tomorrow.

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There are people who run marathons while wearing costumes. I don’t get that, but it can certainly provide amusing pictures. Sunday, I did laundry and went grocery shopping. Apparently, you can get ground lamb for $7/pound, which seems awfully pricy. Then took Stephanie to the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts to see the Alexander [...]

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Late last night, Nacho canceled. This was actually a bit annoying, but we had a Plan B: I did the driving.  So we were left with just me, Dan, and Zach at the rifle range.  That was fun, though.  I finally got to try out Zach’s M1 carbine, which was kind of fun since it [...]

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Friday was a busy day, mostly because the governor of AZ signed a controversial bill. That caused a whole lot of wharrgarble among a whole bunch of people. And I was in the thick of it, trying to get a few new machines up and running to handle the increased load. Some people complained. However, [...]

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Cereal port? Yeah, we’ve got that. I also bought some turkey bacon and ate some of it with pasta and vegetables at dinner tonight. Thursday was pretty cloudy and somewhat cold. I wore my jacket, which is practically unheard of in Phoenix in April. It was a good idea to do that, though. The bus [...]

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Wednesday, I worked from home. At least I tried to work from home. This extremely badly implemented idiocy from McAfee made it so that I was unable to work from home for several hours. I wonder if anyone who works there will get yelled at for that? Scratch that, I wonder if the person who [...]

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