New fuzzy overlord! Mystic is much quieter and much more playful than Moira was. Adpoted her from Lost Our Home in Tempe back in December. Wow. Been forever. Anyway… I got a new Lenovo E595 laptop after some misadventures in delivery. Getting it working with Gentoo is a little more involved than I expected it [...]

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Six years ago, I found Moira wandering around outside my old apartment in Lansing. She’s not content, but she’s probably a lot happier here than she would’ve been wandering around outside in Michigan. Wednesday, I had the day off. I spent it doing laundry, reading, and taking some canned goods to the food bank. Steve [...]

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Relatively busy week. At least I had Thursday off. Tuesday, not all that much happened. Wednesday, I managed to get a free ticket to the baseball game next Tuesday, where the D-Backs will play the Astros. This should be interesting. Also dealt with some software auditors who seem to have no idea how to audit [...]

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This week was a very busy week, which is why there were so few blog entries. Monday, I cleaned up and did prep work, because: Tuesday, a bunch of the trivia crew and Steve and Stephanie came over for food and Rock Band 3. Nathan brought his Pro drum set, which was pretty complicated. It’s [...]

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Saturday didn’t have all that much going on. It was a peaceful day, though Stephanie and I watched a couple of episodes of “Babylon 5″. Sunday was a little more involved. I did laundry, got groceries, and made dinner. The entree above was a big part of dinner. I was going to make plantains to [...]

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Friday was relatively normal, minus the dreaded Disk Full error on a semi-important box. Then we all went out for lunch and spent what seemed like a long time sitting outside and talking. After work, Stephanie and I started in on the 3rd season of “Babylon 5″, which looks like it’s going to be interesting. [...]

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Thursday didn’t have any really horrible things happening with the computer systems, which was a relief. And I think I’ve got an automatic procedure to get rid of the worst of the problems that an intermittent runaway process is causing. Won’t know for sure until tomorrow morning though. Also got the schedule for furloughs hashed [...]

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Wednesday started off great, with a monitor from work saying “OH @#$% STUFF IS BR0KEN!!1!” right as I was eating breakfast. Then the VPN barfed as I was trying to log in. I was eventually able to log in and get the worst of the problems fixed, but dealing with the cleanup took the rest [...]

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Tuesday. While it was OK, it had a neverending series of small requests, all at inconvenient times. It’s amazing I got anything done at all. But I did, which is a small victory. Trivia: Almost everyone was there, and we ended up winning. The main exciting news is Sarah’s baby shower (next week), but none [...]

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My phone was ringing off the hook today with people complaining about various things at work. I thought I’d fixed them after finding a problem and killing a bad query that was sucking up a bunch of CPU for no reason. Nope, people still said that things were slow. Then it was time to take [...]

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