Wednesday had a horribly long morning with all kinds of hassles attached to it. Apparently, some stuff was supposed to be set up, but I hadn’t received any mail, IM conversations, carrier pigeon messages, or any documentation at all about the stuff that had to be set up. This was. . . suboptimal. Other people [...]

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Back to work, though there wasn’t really anything more annoying than the usual amount of stuff that piles up over a long weekend. Hari had gone to Vegas over the weekend, and he stayed out late, won about $100 on blackjack, and had a great time. Other people had mostly stayed in town, though. There [...]

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Saturday, in the park, I think it was the 2nd of July. Well, it was a pretty quiet day. I didn’t do all that much, since it was supposed to be 117° F in the afternoon, which is way too hot for most stuff. Got groceries, did laundry, finished reading The Skinner. It was reasonably [...]

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Wednesday had a slight change of plans from the usual, since Steve had a bunch of work to do. That meant no Rock Band 3, so Stephanie and I pooled our resources for dinner—salad, chicken, and the last of the leftover enchiladas. And then we watched episode 6, season 4 of “Babylon 5″, “Into the [...]

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Depressed about the way the stock market’s going? Try the sock market! Wednesday had relatively ordinary work things, with a few additional hassles. Instead of having Rock Band 3 at my house, we had it at Stephanie’s house, which was a little different. I messed up the A/V connections to her TV the first time, [...]

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Friday wasn’t really that interesting, though I ended up doing a whole bunch of non-work stuff after work. Saturday was more relaxing. Did ordinary chores, and went to the library for the first time in almost a year. They’ve finally finished remodeling the place. I was confused since they’ve changed the shelving layout, but I [...]

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There’s got to be a story behind this particular image. I don’t know if it’s possible to find it out, though. Thursday wasn’t particularly notable. Did a bunch of stuff, found three machines with weird problems, asked some folks to check on them and fix them if they could. But that was about it for [...]

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Thursday had a reasonable number of ordinary work things. It also had a free lunch courtesy of work, where we learned that Sherry got an award for doing some stuff that another department was very impressed with. Sherry is, of course, leaving the company on March 1. (Figures, eh?) This means we’ll all have to [...]

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Thursday, the big excitement was figuring out what to do with a problem we can only characterize as “a bouncing chicken”. That and dealing with a number of other minor crises, including one that was due two days ago that I was not informed of until 11 am, and another one that had been happening [...]

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Finally, back home. Spent most of the week either traveling or visiting the folks. That was interesting, if tiring. Tuesday, Stephanie and I left early in the morning to fly to Michigan. No real problems getting through security, since the terminal we went to didn’t have any of the new backscatter machines and it was [...]

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