December 1. Samantha died that day, so it’s not the world’s best day, at least not for me. But anyway, it was cold and cloudy on Tuesday. Stephanie had problems with her car’s tires. I had problems with RPM Dependency Hell on a couple of test machines. But the vast majority of stuff is working [...]

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Monday had a bunch of totally normal work things. Which was a relief; it could’ve had a bunch of totally bogus work things. But that was mostly it. No, the thing that consumed much more time and effort was taking care of non-work things, like getting tickets to events and finding out what everyone wants [...]

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Sunday was pretty relaxing, though I heard far more Moira meow than usual. She was still upset about me being gone for so long. I saw this van in the parking lot when I went to get groceries. It was kind of interesting, though I don’t know what the owner’s neighbors think of it. “This [...]

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Finally, back home. Spent most of the week either traveling or visiting the folks. That was interesting, if tiring. Tuesday, Stephanie and I left early in the morning to fly to Michigan. No real problems getting through security, since the terminal we went to didn’t have any of the new backscatter machines and it was [...]

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Monday! Well, I didn’t have to go to work, which was nice. Stephanie wasn’t feeling well in the morning. Moira was also meowing a lot and getting on my nerves. I think I’ve gotten everything in a reasonable facsimile of order, which is nice as I’ve got to get up really really early tomorrow. I [...]

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Sunday didn’t have that much going on. I was thinking about taking an old motherboard and CPU combo up to a Boy Scout computer swap meet in Scottsdale, but I slept in too late. My fault. Will have to do that next month, if I can. Sigh. Not that much else. Stephanie’s parents were supposed [...]

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Saturday, very little happened. I spent most of the day relaxing, when I wasn’t doing laundry. Everybody needs a day like that once in a while.

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Sometimes, words mean different things in different places. Or something like that. That’s the only possible explanation for this sign. I think. Friday was pretty quiet—good thing, too, as there were a bunch of people on vacation or working from home. They’re also ripping up the street at a major intersection very near me, which [...]

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Argh. Was too tired to do an entry yesterday. But anyway, on Wednesday, the plan was for Steve and Aric to come by for Rock Band after work. I ordered enough food for everyone from the local Chinese takeout place. However, Aric didn’t show up. This left me with a lot of leftovers. There’s nothing [...]

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Tuesday, something that can only be categorized as “badly configured DNS entries” caused a great deal of annoyance. At least I finally figured it out, and changed a bunch of stuff that should prevent the problem from happening again. Sometimes, we can’t move forward, we can only hold the line against the forces of stupidity [...]

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