Biff faces lunch! Several of us went out to lunch today, even though it was Monday. The beef stew that Jason got had a ton of mushrooms and no carrots or potatoes, so he didn’t like it very much, ate hardly any of it, and didn’t get charged for it. So. Then there was a [...]

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Sunday was, again, not really all that interesting. Did regular household chores. Amused Moira. Talked to the parents on the phone. Cooked dinner (Mexican chicken lasagna) for myself and Stephanie. And that was about it. I’m on call starting Monday, though, which will probably be semi-annoying at some point. It’s always something.

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Sometimes, it’s a good idea to invoke a higher power. This may be one of those times. But anyway, Saturday didn’t have all that much that was exciting. Laundry, groceries, doing Federal taxes. But that was actually just fine. I’m sure there will be more stuff tomorrow.

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Friday, not all that much really happened. I was feeling well enough to go to work, so I did, and then did ordinary work things. Sherry’s wedding is next week, and she’s got a whole bunch of her time blocked off for last-minute planning and stuff. “Really, Matt, you should elope if you can,” she [...]

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Quite late Wednesday night, I thought I was getting sick. I took some over-the-counter antihistamine, thinking it might help. Thursday morning, I knew I was too sick to go in to work, even though there was a meeting at 9:30 that I was supposed to go to. I wouldn’t have been able to make any [...]

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Wednesday was relatively normal. Well, until the afternoon, when we heard about some stuff coming down the pipeline that will involve a ton of work. I won’t have a huge amount to do at first, but after some other folks have gotten the groundwork done, I’ll have to do a bunch of stuff. Did Rock [...]

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Tuesday. Back to work. There was a really long meeting, but that was about it, apart from the standard hassles with a few machines running out of disk space and a bunch of other people not having enough time to do things for us. One exchange from the meeting: “What’s this new application going to [...]

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Anyway: Spent the last couple of days taking a mini-vacation to Scottsdale with Stephanie. On Friday, we checked in to the hotel, then went to dinner, then went to a drive-in movie theatre. Stephanie had never been to a drive-in. So we went, and saw “I am Number Four”. This was an OK bildungsroman, with [...]

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Thursday had a reasonable number of ordinary work things. It also had a free lunch courtesy of work, where we learned that Sherry got an award for doing some stuff that another department was very impressed with. Sherry is, of course, leaving the company on March 1. (Figures, eh?) This means we’ll all have to [...]

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Wednesday included a reasonable amount of fooling around with a recalcitrant database. I also went and gave blood, since they were doing a blood drive at work. That went pretty well. However, I was awfully tired after doing that, and so canceled the normal Wednesday Night Rock. So, I’m hitting the sack early tonight instead [...]

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