The bigger the explosion, the fewer things remain unsolved. It’s just a tiny bit difficult to obtain a Death Star in this day and age, though.

Wednesday, I worked from home. Actually, I worked from home some of the time and worked from the car dealership some of the time, because I was getting the car’s AC fixed. But that all worked. Also had the usual dinner and Rock Band, where we had rotisserie chicken, garlic bread, and pasta. Stephanie told Steve all about the bits of A World Lit Only By Fire that she’d read. After dinner, Stephanie left, while Steve and I went through a few of the song goals.

Thursday was pretty normal, though it’s getting hot again. It was about 90° F in the hottest part of the afternoon. But that’s OK. It’s only March.

Tuesday started off with a bang as I woke up at about 1:50am to a call from work saying that a bunch of stuff had gotten fouled up beyond all recognition and could I please fix it? I tried. At least some of it worked. The problem never should’ve happened in the first place, naturally, but at least the extensive badness was (mostly) confined to late at night when fewer people than usual would notice.

Of course, doing all the cleanup took a while. By the time I’d finished, it was almost 5am. I decided to forget about sleeping, and just went to work a bit earlier than usual. Once I’d gotten there, there were a ton of other things to do, but people liked that I’d been able to get stuff mostly working late at night with no warning. I left after lunch at about 12:45pm, since I was tired, and needed a nap.

Trivia: Stephanie and I went out to dinner at My Big Fat Greek Restaurant before trivia. This was good and fairly cheap. Didn’t stay for all of trivia; too tired. John’s having a birthday party on Sunday night and a Roller Derby outing on Saturday night, and Sarah’s having a baby shower on Saturday afternoon. Plenty of stuff going on. I hope I’ll be awake enough to go to John’s birthday thing.

Monday didn’t have anything really like this cartoon from the 1980s, even though this article about Anonymous releasing info detailing fraud and corruption at Bank of America was something I saw this evening. No, Monday had relatively ordinary work things, along with several hours of catch-up from the stuff that I didn’t get to on Friday because I was off. Anyway, that was OK.

While riding home, I told Stephanie, “I’ll Skype with you at 7:30pm.” At about 7:27pm, I logged in to Skype. Stephanie was listed as “not logged in”. I watched the display, sure she’d log in soon, planning to call her as soon as she did log in, and didn’t see anything until she called me on my cellphone at about 7:38pm. She’d been logged in since 7:26 and was wondering why I hadn’t called her. Sigh. Well, no real harm done. Just a little time wasted.

Sunday! Always a good day. Did laundry, went grocery shopping, cooked chicken, couscous, and broccoli for Stephanie and me. Moira meowed a lot. I got some reading done. Not that much else.

Friday, I didn’t have to work. I did have to take the car in to get it looked at, since the AC wasn’t working well at all. So I did that, and they said, “Oh yeah. There’s a leak in the coolant line. We don’t have the parts we need on hand; earliest we can get them is Tuesday.” So, I’ve got to take the car back again next week, which will be a bit annoying.

Saturday was a bit more relaxed. No car repair. Stephanie and I went to the Borders in Chandler, because it was closing and everything was 30% off. I didn’t see anything I couldn’t live without, and the store looked a bit picked over. She found some stuff, though. Then I went to the Barnes & Noble a few miles away, because I had a gift card for that place that I hadn’t used yet. Since that store wasn’t going out of business, they had a larger selection, and I found some stuff. Then Stephanie cooked dinner for us—fish, potatoes, and pasta with vegetables. Tasty.

Wednesday had ordinary work things, as well as a meeting where we all tried to figure out what the heck had happened on Monday. We came up with a hypothesis that seemed like it’d explain everything. Then we had the usual dinner and Rock Band. That was kind of interesting. Steve talked a lot about a bunch of stuff, but Stephanie had to leave right after dinner to go study. I also earned some sort of achievement that allows you to play keyboard parts on a guitar controller, which sounds interesting, but is sort of difficult.

Thursday had more ordinary work things, as well as a complete server rebuild I had to do at short notice. This took longer than I’d planned on. Oh well. At least I should be able to take Friday off, which is always a good thing.

Tuesday. While it was OK, it had a neverending series of small requests, all at inconvenient times. It’s amazing I got anything done at all. But I did, which is a small victory.

Trivia: Almost everyone was there, and we ended up winning. The main exciting news is Sarah’s baby shower (next week), but none of us guys are going to attend that, so we weren’t that impressed. The plan to have a bunch of us guys crash the shower wearing kilts and carrying enormous quantities of cheap beer is not going to happen, which is probably a great relief to all concerned.

Saturday, the big excitement was going to Sherry’s wedding way out in Surprise. It was a long drive, made longer by Stephanie finding out that the AC in my car isn’t working well (sigh). But we got there, found the wedding venue, and sat down. Several of us had trouble finding the place.

Anyway, we sat (in the back) and watched the ceremony, which was relatively standard except for a “sand ceremony”, where Sherry and Men poured small containers of colored sand into a larger container. I think only about half of the pictures I took were worth keeping, because I was in a terrible place for taking pictures. Then the reception started, which was nearby and pretty good. However, all the tables near the front were reserved for people who were related to Sherry and Men, and the friends of bride and groom were all stuck far in the back. No matter. The food was good.

After dinner was finished, there was a champagne toast, then a couple of short speeches by the best man and the bridesmaid. And then a bunch of people dressed up in silly costumes and did impressions (seriously). This took a while. It was about 9:15pm before the bride and groom circulated through all the tables to say hi. Most of us were champing at the bit, because lots of us live a long way away from Surprise and had about an hour drive ahead of us. So about 2 minutes after we’d congratulated Sherry and said goodbye, we all got up and left.

I hope everything works out for Sherry, since she’s moving to a suburb of Seattle to be with her husband. It’ll be a huge change for her, and for all of us. It’s never easy to lose a co-worker whom everyone likes. But we’ll deal; we really have no choice.

Sunday, I was tired. I got groceries, made dinner, and tried to keep everyone happy. I think I mostly succeeded.

Monday, multiple buckets of bovine excrement hit multiple high-speed fans. There’s something really weird going on that nobody could figure out, and it took far too long to get everything working reasonably well.

Long day today. Someone deleted a CSS file that shouldn’t have been deleted, and then a bad problem description made it take much longer than it should’ve to figure out what had happened. At least we had backups. Then I found out that some people hadn’t fully specced out what they needed for an app they wanted deployed. If the app needs to upload/download stuff from the trusted network, then it can’t live in the DMZ. I don’t know how that’s all going to work out. It probably won’t be all that fun to deal with.

And, of course, tomorrow will also be a long day. Sherry’s getting married on the west side of town, and Stephanie and I are going. Some other people from work are coming, though I don’t know for sure how many or who. But hey, free dinner. . . right?

Kitteh and Pip ramble on. Thursday really had very little rambling associated with it, though. Did ordinary work things. Not that much happened. After work, though, Stephanie picked me up in her car and drove me to the pharmacy (I had to fill a prescription),  then to Miele’s (I had a coupon from Deal Chicken for that restaurant.) So we had a nice diner and saved some money on it, which is all good.