Quite a bit of stuff has been going on. Friday: I almost, but didn’t quite, have the day off. I had to call in for a meeting at 10am. This only lasted a half-hour, but not too long after that, I got mail asking me to do a bunch of stuff. So I got some [...]

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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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This has got to be the silliest Nativity scene anyone’s ever thought of. Like, whoa, dude, three wise Darth Vaders? Bogus! Unfortunately, we all found out today that Larry’s found another job, and he’s actually taking this one and leaving in a couple of weeks. This will make things interesting, since he’s involved with a [...]

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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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Monday: We both had the day off, so Stephanie took me to dinner at the Volcano Buffet, where we got the “hot pot”. The waiter brings out a small stove and a bowl of broth, and you put meat and vegetables into the broth until they’re cooked. This was interesting, since I’d never done it [...]

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Anyway, it’s New Year’s Day, and that’s at least pretty good. Friday, I got to leave work a bit early, because everyone else was leaving too. Saturday was mostly normal, but I did get a panicked mail from work about something sort of stupid. This was mostly easy to fix. The person requesting help was [...]

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Otters Otters Otters!!1! (video, requires Flash to play.) Anyway, Friday was OK, even with minor amounts of stupid. There’s other stuff I’ll have to do later, of course, but at least I get a three-day weekend.

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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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The giraffes at the Phoenix Zoo, waiting to be fed. Tuesday! Well, I had to work, but it was mostly OK. Not too many trouble tickets, got some reading done on the bus, and got some actual useful work done. Except my keyboard threw a hissy fit while I was trying to do some minor [...]

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