I can’t remember where I saw this first, but the text on the picture may not be the best advice in all situations. (What is the world coming to when we can’t trust anonymous Internet images?) Wednesday, Stephanie brought over a few leftover chicken wings and a big container full of Illinois corn chowder. I [...]

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Tuesday had more than the usual number of things at work. “Single-sign on” is a myth; there are at least two LDAP/AD/whatever databases, and while most things use one of them, the helldesk system uses another one. This means that the password I normally use for work systems is completely out of sync with the [...]

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Monday. Everyone’s favorite day. Well, it wasn’t all that bad, considering. We got news that some people from corporate said, “We think the architecture you’ve built for your site isn’t adequate. So we’ve gone with another vendor for our new initiative. They have fewer problems than you guys have. We think that in 10 weeks, [...]

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Sunday didn’t really have as much stuff going on as Saturday did. I went to Costco with Stephanie, mostly to help her tote barges and lift bales. (Forty pound bags of cat litter are heavy, so she wanted me around.) Also got some cereal and some couscous while there. I saw a bunch of pricey [...]

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Friday was pretty much a normal workday, although we had one thing that was different. We had a guy come in and interview for a job, specifically the job that Sherry left earlier. I don’t know how it all worked out, since he had to interview at 4pm, and I had to leave at 5pm [...]

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This is the casserole I made on Sunday. It was inspired by German cuisine, so it’s got pork sausage, sauerkraut, Riesling, and cheese in it. It was pretty tasty. Wednesday was filled with normal work things and a special request which was kind of hackish. Then went home and had Chinese food with Stephanie and [...]

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These are the frog pops that I mentioned a couple of entries ago. They looked interesting. I wonder how they tasted. Tuesday didn’t have that much that was interesting at work. Well, the big meeting had news of a ham-handed and fairly stupid decision by people far at the top of the food chain. I [...]

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For the last couple of months, it’s been impossible for me to use suspend-to-RAM on my desktop machine. Nothing I’ve tried has worked properly. I haven’t even been able to get anything coherent out of the kernel after enabling all the ACPI debugging info. I’m not sure why this is. So, I went to Tux [...]

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Sunday, Sunday, Sunday! Well, mostly. The main event was John Tyldesley’s birthday, which we all were going to celebrate at 7pm, but he moved the celebration up to 5pm, and none of us knew that until Sunday morning. No problem. I moved up my dinner plans so that dinner was ready at 5pm, so Stephanie [...]

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Friday! Everyone usually looks forward to that day. Work was reasonably ordinary; spent a lot of it trying to deal with making machines do the right thing after hideous and sundry networking failures. That didn’t go quite as well as I’d hoped—it looks like manual intervention of some sort will be required even in a [...]

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