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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There was a reasonable amount of stuff going on. But anyway. Friday, I had the day off work, since I was on call the previous week. This was fun. I slept in, made good coffee, catered to Moira, and did some reading. Saturday, I’d planned to go to the Renaissance Faire with Stephanie, Zach, and [...]

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As usual, it’s been a very long, tiring, and full set of days. Too much has happened to write it all down. Wednesday, someone did a DROP DATABASE on a production database that was in use. Fortunately, this wasn’t one of the insanely important databases. We still had to scramble for the backups and retrieve [...]

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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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Tuesday! Always a good day. Mostly. I solved a few problems in the morning, then got sidetracked by things like our entire floor not having any coffee anywhere. We finally found some, though. And then later in the afternoon, I ran into some other stuff that has no easy solution. Well, it didn’t at the [...]

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Sunday: Not that much, really. I got some reading done and made dinner. Stephanie and I channel-flipped for a while and found an episode of “Criminal Minds”, which was actually better than I was expecting. I’m not sure if it’d be worth it to grab the earlier seasons of it on Netflix. Then I sacked [...]

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So. Wednesday: I was the only person from my team in the office, because the other two people were sick or working from home. This wasn’t too bad and could’ve been a lot worse. The helpdesk gave me a ticket with “User joebob can’t log in.” There is no user named joebob. In fact, “joebob” [...]

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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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Anyway. Sunday: the big excitement was having lunch with Nacho and Luly at the Vig. They seemed to really like the food, which is only understandable as it’s pretty high quality. But anyway, Nacho has apparently played many more video games than I have, since he’s either had more spare time or hasn’t ever been [...]

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Tuesday, always a fun day. There were relatively ordinary work things at first. Then we heard something that sounded really weird. Not bad, just unusual, but there’s no way we’ll get the full story until next week. Anyway, we also had a really odd problem later with a new test box. “Why won’t this apache [...]

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