Otters Otters Otters!!1! (video, requires Flash to play.) Anyway, Friday was OK, even with minor amounts of stupid. There’s other stuff I’ll have to do later, of course, but at least I get a three-day weekend.

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So. Wednesday: I was the only person from my team in the office, because the other two people were sick or working from home. This wasn’t too bad and could’ve been a lot worse. The helpdesk gave me a ticket with “User joebob can’t log in.” There is no user named joebob. In fact, “joebob” [...]

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The giraffes at the Phoenix Zoo, waiting to be fed. Tuesday! Well, I had to work, but it was mostly OK. Not too many trouble tickets, got some reading done on the bus, and got some actual useful work done. Except my keyboard threw a hissy fit while I was trying to do some minor [...]

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Lots of stuff has happened over the last few days. Saturday: We didn’t really do all that much, but Stephanie bought some Mexican food for us for dinner. Then all of us except Dad went to the Christmas Eve service at a nearby church. This was relatively normal until the very end of the service, [...]

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Friday’s main event was going to the Phoenix Zoo. Stephanie had a couple of free tickets, and she bought a zoo membership, which gave her additional free tickets, so it wasn’t really that expensive. So all of us walked through the exhibits, and we were a lot luckier than usual. The otters were awake and [...]

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Tuesday: Not all that much happened. Wednesday: The family flew in to town, and didn’t get delayed or lose their luggage or anything dumb like that. This is always a good thing. Then we had to get Stephanie and run out to Fountain Hills to visit a winery, because I’d bought a coupon that allowed [...]

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Monday! Well, sort of. This Monday was actually my virtual Friday, since I’m off the rest of the week. I got some stuff done, at least. I figured out that we could get a bunch of disk space back by doing X. I wrote out steps to take if X didn’t work right, so that [...]

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Anyway. Friday, I spent the whole day working from home, which was a nice change of pace, even though Moira decided to occupy my lap for most of the day. I spent my lunch break getting some shopping done. Saturday, I put up the Christmas tree, and Stephanie helped me hang up all the ornaments. [...]

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Tuesday: relatively ordinary work stuff for the most part. The only odd thing was that someone had asked for a bunch of stuff two weeks ago, but phrased it really badly. The guy who did that stuff did what the user said instead of what the user meant. This didn’t work well. So I had [...]

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Monday was pretty odd in that it was raining off and on all day. This is unusual for the Phoenix area, even though we tend to get more rain in December and January thanks to weather patterns. Work was reasonably OK. Really only had a couple of problems, both of which responded well to a [...]

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