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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This pretty much summed up Thursday. It started off with a machine dying, then we got it back up, then an obscure important piece wasn’t working because somebody else had never set that piece to start automatically on boot. Finding this took what seemed like forever. At least I fixed the problem and got it [...]

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Tuesday. Always fun. It seemed like there was a never-ending tide of requests and things to do. It didn’t help that one of us was sick, and one of the people upstairs is sick. Stuff is sort of coming together, not quite as smoothly or as quickly as the bosses would like, but actual progress [...]

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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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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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Wednesday, the big excitement was what seemed like a never-ending raft of trouble tickets, a couple of which had absolutely nothing to do with us. Sure, something sourced from http://example.com/stuff/ may be giving a “500 Internal Server Error” for everybody. This doesn’t mean that I can fix it, even if ten people are all yelling [...]

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Wednesday had fairly normal work stuff. Except for the semi-panicked attempts to learn as much as possible about the huge complex system that we’ll all have to rewrite and maintain in roughly 2 months. That’s going to lead to far too much work until February, for sure. And maybe beyond that. Not much that can [...]

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Tuesday was a little less terrible than Monday, mostly because we’d already heard enough bad news on Monday. Also, Aaron was back, even though he wasn’t feeling 100%. This is mostly because various regulations won’t let him get paid for the several weeks he’ll be taking off soon unless he goes in to work for [...]

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Thanksgiving week was pretty relaxing, since I was on vacation. And of course, I learned that Chris has found another job, and his last day is Friday. This is slightly inconvenient as he’s been here for a long time, and he was working on a really important project. Which he doesn’t have time to finish [...]

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Monday: Pretty normal at work, though I spent a fairly long time talking about basic Linux system administration to another guy from a different section. I also heard from Bill—he said that he quit his new job and returned to his old job mostly because “After a couple of weeks there, I knew I wasn’t [...]

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