Work: I’ve been fighting with a problem that’s essentially unfixable for long enough that I’m hard pressed to care much anymore. Especially since I didn’t get to go to trivia tonight—had to do more work. The root cause of 90% of the problems I’ve had with this whole process is that Microsoft Outlook can no [...]

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Monday was actually a fairly typical workday, even though there were some problems with the stuff that I’d done on Sunday (sigh). These were overshadowed by other problems that other people found that were more severe. AFAICT, everything I’m responsible for is working reasonably well, which is always nice. Tired. Would like to emulate the [...]

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Sunday, I really wanted to emulate this kitten. However, I had to work. I had almost all the problems fixed, when a couple of pieces of networking equipment in the secondary datacenter fell over. That caused way too much grief for everyone involved, and took a couple of hours of finangling to get fixed. It [...]

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Since the whole problem I talked about yesterday still isn’t entirely fixed, I spent far too much of Saturday working from home. And of course, I’ll have to do that Sunday as well.

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Naturally, Friday came with its own stupid crisis. It consumed hours at work and hours after work, and will consume hours of my time tomorrow and probably Sunday. All because some clueless suit’s favorite “e-mail client” is incapable of rendering modern HTML. So yeah, not a fun day.

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Five years ago, I found Moira outside my old apartment building in Lansing. She didn’t have anyone, so I took her in, so she’s spent the last five years meowing really loudly and costing me money. But anyway, she’s here, and will be for as long as she’s still around. Work was relatively normal. There [...]

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Work on Wednesday wasn’t really all that interesting, though some folks decided to wait until 5 minutes before quitting time and say, “Can you do (complicated stuff)? Right now?” I don’t know why people do that. They have a great talent for that, though. We had Rock Band at my place, since Steve’s in the [...]

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Tuesday had a bunch of stuff to do at work, including fooling with mail servers and doing something that we described as “teaching a chicken to ride a pig”. At least most of that worked properly. We were discussing sites like Groupon, and I said, “We should make a website called dealvampirebat.com! Slogan: ‘Our Deals [...]

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Monday included far too much database silliness, far too little pizza, and absolutely no hamsters. At least I’ve got most of the problems that I could foresee fixed. (Next: fixing the problems that I can’t foresee, which is always much harder.) Anyway, after work, Stephanie came over and we had leftovers. The pumpkin and Asiago [...]

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Sunday, I made the casserole gratin dish to the left. I was surprised that it turned out well, since I’d never made something like that before. But it’s somewhat hard to screw up a dish that has potatoes, chicken sausage, sauerkraut, cheese, and half a cup of Riesling in it. We had brown rice and [...]

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