Monday. <SARCASM> Always a good day. </SARCASM> Well, at least it wasn’t too bad. I did a bunch of ordinary work stuff. Things are probably not going to be quiet and normal for a while, though. Jeff’s taking early retirement in May, Garrett’s quitting and moving to California in June. These things will mean more [...]

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Anyway. Friday, there wasn’t a heck of a lot going on, because I had the day off since I was on call all last week. I spent a lot of that time petting Moira, reading Anansi Boys, and after eating dinner, went over to Stephanie’s to watch the last episode of Firefly, disc 2. (I’ve [...]

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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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This is one view of the ancient ruins we saw while on the Jeep tour west of Sedona. Anyway, Friday was notable mostly for going out on a long walk to Five Guys for lunch. Mmm, dead cows and potatoes. Stephanie and I bought some more tickets for the gigantic lottery, but neither of us [...]

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More rock art! This was a little more interesting in person, because rock art doesn’t seem to photograph well in afternoon sunlight. Wednesday was reasonably normal. I saw that I hadn’t won anything in the lottery that morning—which shouldn’t surprise anyone. Work had some annoying bits, but we managed to get some useful things done. [...]

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Snoopy Rock! This required some post-processing, but I think it turned out OK. Monday was back to work. Five tons of things had happened. I didn’t get much of a chance to work on anything new, because I was busy fixing all the stuff that had broken and I didn’t get a chance to fix [...]

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So. Friday, we ate breakfast at the hotel (cereal and vegetarian breakfast burritos), then went into town. We decided to go on the “Ancient Ruins” Pink Jeep Tour, scheduling it for 1pm, and then spent some time walking up and down and looking at all the tourist stores. This was kind of interesting. I didn’t [...]

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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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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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