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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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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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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Wednesday: had a long meeting about all the stuff that needed to be done at work. This really wasn’t all that useful for me, but maybe it was for other people. They’re not budging on the due date for the project, even though two of the most experienced people have left, which is really nice [...]

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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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Wednesday: Lots of stuff at work. Most annoying was a new project, which I finally got a chance to start on, which is going to take a lot longer than I thought because of a bunch of design decisions made years and years ago. At least it isn’t insanely urgent yet. And then, it was [...]

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Lots of stuff has happened over the last few days. Saturday: We didn’t really do all that much, but Stephanie bought some Mexican food for us for dinner. Then all of us except Dad went to the Christmas Eve service at a nearby church. This was relatively normal until the very end of the service, [...]

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Tuesday: relatively ordinary work stuff for the most part. The only odd thing was that someone had asked for a bunch of stuff two weeks ago, but phrased it really badly. The guy who did that stuff did what the user said instead of what the user meant. This didn’t work well. So I had [...]

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Wednesday had fairly normal work stuff. Except for the semi-panicked attempts to learn as much as possible about the huge complex system that we’ll all have to rewrite and maintain in roughly 2 months. That’s going to lead to far too much work until February, for sure. And maybe beyond that. Not much that can [...]

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It seems like it’s been a really, really busy week, which is why there haven’t been any updates. Wednesday, I actually had the day off. Still had a bunch of stuff to do. Stephanie and some of her cow-orkers held a charity concert during their lunch hour, so I drove out to see that. The [...]

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