Friday: Relatively normal. The conference call and massive amounts of mail and spending about 6 person-hours of work for no results were not because anything was actually wrong. That all happened because some numbers were smaller than some people had predicted. So. . . yeah, it was all a tempest in a teapot. Heck. Saturday: [...]

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Monday had one problem: Two text messages from work had apparently gotten stuck somewhere, and they got delivered at 3:30am and 3:50am, over 24 hours late. This was really annoying since they came through with the “this is high priority, deal with this now” ringtone and woke me up for no reason. Monday itself was [...]

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I’m not sure where this came from or what it really means, but it’s just a tad out there. Sunday had less stuff than Saturday. Stephanie made lunch for us; sandwiches, chicken soup, and deviled eggs. This is a lot more elaborate than what I usually get for lunch. I made dinner; chicken, pasta, and [...]

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Monday! Well, it sort of comes around every week. It wasn’t that bad. I got a bunch of stuff done. But we also decided that we should have a meeting every Friday, and that there should be presentations in this meeting. And that I’d be doing the first presentation. Ah well. I don’t mind speaking [...]

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Sunday was less exciting than you might think. Stephanie took me out to lunch, and then we spent some time walking around downtown Tempe. I got a present for Patty and Spencer’s housewarming thing in early August. Stephanie found a store called “Candy Addict” that had just about every kind of bulk candy and candy [...]

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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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Monday! And, as usual, Americans are angry about pretty much everything. Not sure why. While it’s certainly tempting to blame everything that’s going badly on the political party or tendency that you don’t like, I’m pretty sure the problems go much deeper than any political party. Self-interest and being a complete @#%^ for the sake [...]

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Arizona proposition 203 appears to have passed. This is sort of surprising to me, but what the heck. It’s probably a good thing, though I don’t know whether the legislature will overturn the will of the voters again. They did that a few years ago, when a similar proposition won enough votes to be enacted, [...]

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This picture is pretty simplistic, but it does illustrate some of the problems that show up when you replace thought with bumper-sticker slogans. Thursday was Veteran’s Day, and the bus that I usually take to work wasn’t running at all. So I worked from home. That was actually OK, though the corporate-approved IM server barfed [...]

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Election Day generated a bunch of things that were at least as annoying as a vuvuzela. I got at least 3 robo-calls on Tuesday, which were about as welcome as a root canal. I also dropped off my early ballot at the polling place before work. Everything was working well, every poll worker was following [...]

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