McBubble and Squeak, anyone? Didn’t think so. Wednesday: more stuff at work, though some of the really terrible problems have been solved. They wanted to install Bugzilla. I tried that, and found that the automatic dependency-resolving mechanisms in it don’t work. This took a while to solve. Fortunately, I’ve been through this particular rodeo before, [...]

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Tuesday! Always a good day. Mostly. I solved a few problems in the morning, then got sidetracked by things like our entire floor not having any coffee anywhere. We finally found some, though. And then later in the afternoon, I ran into some other stuff that has no easy solution. Well, it didn’t at the [...]

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Sunday: Not that much, really. I got some reading done and made dinner. Stephanie and I channel-flipped for a while and found an episode of “Criminal Minds”, which was actually better than I was expecting. I’m not sure if it’d be worth it to grab the earlier seasons of it on Netflix. Then I sacked [...]

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Friday: not all that fun, since minor crises that we couldn’t really fix kept happening all morning. And then it was Larry’s last day, which was also annoying. It seems as though all the people who have the option to leave are taking it, which sort of alarms the local management. Naturally, corporate either doesn’t [...]

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This pretty much summed up Thursday. It started off with a machine dying, then we got it back up, then an obscure important piece wasn’t working because somebody else had never set that piece to start automatically on boot. Finding this took what seemed like forever. At least I fixed the problem and got it [...]

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Tuesday. Always fun. It seemed like there was a never-ending tide of requests and things to do. It didn’t help that one of us was sick, and one of the people upstairs is sick. Stuff is sort of coming together, not quite as smoothly or as quickly as the bosses would like, but actual progress [...]

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Monday had the usual raft of work-related bits of silliness. But at least I got some stuff accomplished, which is sometimes all you can do. We interviewed a guy over the phone. We really need another person since we’re stretched pretty thin. I hope we find somebody that the bosses and the team can live [...]

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Anyway, it seems like five tons of things have been happening all week, which is why there haven’t been many entries here. Let’s see. Last Wednesday, had the usual Rock Band 3 with Steve and Stephanie, which was kind of fun. Thursday, the department head took a few of us to the hockey game, which [...]

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Monday! This was a lot better than a regular Monday, mostly because I didn’t have to go in to work. I didn’t do all that much. Amused Moira, made dinner, checked up on Anna and Pinto. Back to work tomorrow. I’ll have a whole lot of stuff to do, plus I’ll be on call all [...]

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Quite a bit of stuff has been going on. Friday: I almost, but didn’t quite, have the day off. I had to call in for a meeting at 10am. This only lasted a half-hour, but not too long after that, I got mail asking me to do a bunch of stuff. So I got some [...]

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