Sunday, Stephanie and I went to Seaport Village, a little shopping center in downtown San Diego. This had a bunch of small independent shops, with a bunch of specialized (and highly priced) stuff. Stephanie bought me a coffee mug. We had lunch at a little seafood place nearby, and had shrimp, fish, and crab cakes. [...]

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Spent the last few days taking a mini-vacation in San Diego with Stephanie. Friday: Drove to the airport, flew out to San Diego, rented a car, and got to the hotel. This actually worked out pretty well. It was more expensive than driving, but it was also only 4 hours instead of 7 hours. Met [...]

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Six years ago, I found Moira wandering around outside my old apartment in Lansing. She’s not content, but she’s probably a lot happier here than she would’ve been wandering around outside in Michigan. Wednesday, I had the day off. I spent it doing laundry, reading, and taking some canned goods to the food bank. Steve [...]

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After the last entry on Sunday night, I hit the sack. I got a trouble ticket about an hour after I’d gone to sleep. It was a serious trouble ticket, but it was really annoying to have to get up and do stuff late at night. And then I saw additional problems that weren’t quite [...]

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Sunday was actually fairly relaxing. Did a bunch of laundry, made dinner, and Stephanie and I started watching the last season of “Babylon 5″. Didn’t have any work calls as of 8:20pm, and I really hope that continues. Apparently, Bank of America recently sold my mortgage to another company. This isn’t that terrible; mortgages get [...]

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Anyway. Friday was a fairly ordinary day at work. We all went out to Five Guys, since a couple of us hadn’t been there before. We found that they give you a whole lot of fries, so ordering fries individually isn’t really the best idea. But the food was good, which was really all we [...]

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Wednesday was a lot more annoying than it should’ve been. A third-party vendor ran a DROP DATABASE on the main database we’re replicating, and that broke a bunch of our stuff. What really made me feel good was the way a “tech” said, “Oh yeah, there’s some instability with the system, so errors build up, [...]

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Tuesday had what seemed like a never-ending stream of meetings, semi-dumb queries, problems, and trouble tickets. And, of course, I got yet another trouble ticket while eating dinner. So. . . not a great day. I could rant more, but it wouldn’t serve any useful purpose. Well, at least the D-Backs beat the Phillies, which [...]

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Monday. Heck. It seemed like a long string of relatively minor requests, punctuated by more complex and time-consuming stuff. And it all mostly worked. Until I got called after I’d finished dinner. Someone somewhere had approved a project/something that was using a bunch of code that was never designed to do what they wanted it [...]

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When I lived in Ann Arbor, I don’t think my rented housing was ever more than a mile away from this place. It was your average greasy, unhealthy, and really good hamburger joint. I also don’t think I’ll ever be able to eat there again thanks to geography and being too old to deal with [...]

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