Far too much has happened, and most of it hasn’t been that good. On Christmas Eve, the kitchen drain got clogged. The plumber couldn’t fix it—the pipes had not been set up to make fixing the clog possible. So instead of having Christmas dinner at my place, we had to have it at Stephanie’s place, [...]

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The last month or so has been really busy. I really haven’t felt like writing here, because there’s been so little time to say anything. The picture is here because a couple of weeks ago, I noticed that a nickel I’d gotten in change was a funny color. I took a closer look at it [...]

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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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Long time between entries, as there’s been a lot of stuff going on. Stephanie left on Sunday for a conference in Indiana. Ordinary work things all week. Trivia on Tuesday, with most of the usual crew, where we got 3rd place. During trivia, I saw that there’s a ballplayer for the Brewers who’s named Corey [...]

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Wednesday had a reasonable number of ordinary work things. It also had a retirement lunch for 3 people who’d taken the early buyout. This was nice, but I’m sure we’ll miss these folks when they’re gone. Then when I got the usual Golden Eggroll food, they said, “Um, it’ll take longer than usual. OK?” I [...]

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It’s been a very long and busy week. Last Tuesday, we learned that Patrick’s quitting. He said he wasn’t happy with the long-term prospects at the company, tired of the immense pigheadedness of corporate, and really wanted to go somewhere else and do iPhone development. Wonderful. What does this mean for ordinary peons like me? [...]

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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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Here’s another picture from the Sedona trip. This was taken somewhere on the Lizard Head Trail. Work actually hasn’t had that much happen this week. We’ve got a new employee on the team—this will be really useful later on, and will take some of the pressure off the rest of us. Of course, it took [...]

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Anyway. I haven’t been updating this, since I’ve been on furlough and relaxing and doing stuff. Current events: Facebook is being evil and stupid, which should really surprise no one. But: Last Sunday, Stephanie and I went to Peter Piper Pizza with John, a bunch of his friends, and the trivia group. We all dressed [...]

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Another loooong week. The bus strike here in Phoenix/Tempe made it worse, since instead of riding the bus, I had to drive 2.5 miles to the light rail park-n-ride. This took about 20 minutes longer than taking the bus did. So I had less time than usual all week. Had Rock Band 3 on Wednesday [...]

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