This guinea pig has totally gotten into the spirit of Halloween. I got groceries today and bought a bag of bite-size candy bars, but no trick-or-treaters have shown up. Ah well. I guess I’ll take the spares to the office tomorrow. Not really that much else to report. I did a bunch of laundry and [...]

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This “American Fried Rice” dish is apparently a fast-food staple in Thailand, even though it bears no resemblance to anything Americans generally eat. Well, except for the fried chicken. Friday wasn’t really interesting at all. Well, at work, some people wanted to redesign a rather important piece of code with no advance warning just a [...]

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You can tell it’s almost Election Day by the number of political ads that you get with the paper spam in your snail mailbox. Almost all of them appear to be variations on the theme of “Candidate A is a Communist Nazi Liberal and you shouldn’t vote for Candidate A”. Pity, that. Work: Not a [...]

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Wednesday had fairly typical work stuff, though they’d set out a whole bunch of cupcakes and cookies and candy in the conference room. Also debugged some stuff. Rock was at Stephanie’s place this time. Well, she had a whole bunch of leftover chicken wings from last Saturday, and we combined those with some shrimp and [...]

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Apparently, Nacho and his wife were both sick recently. Someone wrote “Is Darlin’ OK?” on Facebook after Nacho posted that. Darlin’ was totally fine. So here’s a picture of her dressed as a lobster. Work was pretty boring. Trivia was more interesting, even though a lot of people couldn’t attend. Stephanie said she had to [...]

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Monday had an unusual number of stupid things happening with various computer systems. Most of these things had no real bearing on anything that was actually important, but I had to fix them or try to fix them. And then, of course, we found out that the deal we were offering on another site was [...]

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This car was in the parking lot of Trader Joe’s when I went there on Friday to get some groceries. Sometimes, you see classic cars out here, because the weather’s dry enough that not many of them have rusted out. Saturday: Stephanie had a party at her house, and invited all the folks from trivia. [...]

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Friday! Always a good thing. Usually. Since I had the day off, I spent most of the day running errands, including getting the car’s emissions checked and picking up some groceries for the party tomorrow. So after doing all that, I decided to lie down on the couch at about 3:30pm. I fell asleep and [...]

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Thursday, usually a good day, even if there are silly things happening with the dev boxes. Also, there was no free lunch. No big deal, just a tad annoying. In slightly more exciting news, I have the day off Friday, and this time, I’m not going out of town. I’ll be doing really fun stuff, [...]

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Wednesday. There wasn’t really a whole lot to say about work, though there was a meeting about hardware. There was also somebody who said that something yesterday had done really well, and so we might be getting a free lunch tomorrow. Then after work, Steve came over and we had Rock Band for the first [...]

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