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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You can tell it’s almost Election Day by the number of political ads that you get with the paper spam in your snail mailbox. Almost all of them appear to be variations on the theme of “Candidate A is a Communist Nazi Liberal and you shouldn’t vote for Candidate A”. Pity, that. Work: Not a [...]

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This weekend was a bit lazier than usual. Let’s see. . . the football team lost horribly, I had a night where I had to be on-call because everybody else was on vacation or at an Oktoberfest event, and Moira made a lot of noise. Fortunately, there were no trouble tickets while I was on [...]

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Thursday, I saw a message on a technical mailing list which said, “So you’re using a single gigabat NIC here. . . .” I do not know how fast a gigabat NIC would transmit data. I think there would be absolutely no mosquitoes in the server room where one was installed, though. Work was relatively [...]

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Recently, I got Resident Mad Scientist (comic where it starts) in the mail, but it wasn’t until Saturday that I got a chance to open it and read it. Yay! High-tech mercenary mayhem in the future, with talking poop and vast conspiracies. OK, this may not be to everyone’s taste, but I liked it. Saturday [...]

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