It’s that time again. Howard Tayler’s got pre-orders open for The Sharp End of the Stick. You can read the story on the web here, but the book will offer less waiting and the ability to read more than one strip at a time. So: What would you do if you were a small squad [...]

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The big excitement last week was Patrick’s farewell thing on Thursday night. I think almost everybody showed up. This was sort of fun and sad at the same time. Oh well. And, of course, when I got back and took care of Stephanie’s cats, I found that Pinto had knocked a lot of stuff off [...]

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Wednesday had a bunch of stuff at work, including a very long meeting that wasn’t really all that productive. Ah well. I mentioned that Steve, Stephanie, and I were planning on getting Popeye’s chicken for dinner, and Patrick waxed eloquent about how good food from there was. So Stephanie picked up the chicken, and when [...]

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This is one view of the ancient ruins we saw while on the Jeep tour west of Sedona. Anyway, Friday was notable mostly for going out on a long walk to Five Guys for lunch. Mmm, dead cows and potatoes. Stephanie and I bought some more tickets for the gigantic lottery, but neither of us [...]

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Snoopy Rock! This required some post-processing, but I think it turned out OK. Monday was back to work. Five tons of things had happened. I didn’t get much of a chance to work on anything new, because I was busy fixing all the stuff that had broken and I didn’t get a chance to fix [...]

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Anyway. Work’s been alternately boring and depressing. I haven’t felt much like writing about life lately, which is why there have been few entries recently. But apparently John Common can not pay his employees, not pay his suppliers, not pay child support, and get nothing but a slap on the wrist. <SARCASM> This really makes [...]

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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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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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Anyway. There’s been surprisingly little time for writing anything recently, mostly because Friday and the weekend had way too much work stuff going on. Friday: Had to get up at 4am to move some servers. Fortunately, this all went about as smoothly as possible. At work, there were tons of things going on, including, “Instead [...]

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Tuesday was a little less terrible than Monday, mostly because we’d already heard enough bad news on Monday. Also, Aaron was back, even though he wasn’t feeling 100%. This is mostly because various regulations won’t let him get paid for the several weeks he’ll be taking off soon unless he goes in to work for [...]

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