New fuzzy overlord! Mystic is much quieter and much more playful than Moira was. Adpoted her from Lost Our Home in Tempe back in December. Wow. Been forever. Anyway… I got a new Lenovo E595 laptop after some misadventures in delivery. Getting it working with Gentoo is a little more involved than I expected it [...]

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Sunday, Stephanie and I went to see the Braves play the Diamondbacks. This worked out pretty well. We rode the light rail to the game. Of course, everybody else also was riding the light rail, so it was really crowded and we couldn’t sit down. Ah well. It took longer than I’d thought to get [...]

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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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Anyway. Work’s been alternately boring and depressing. I haven’t felt much like writing about life lately, which is why there have been few entries recently. But apparently John Common can not pay his employees, not pay his suppliers, not pay child support, and get nothing but a slap on the wrist. <SARCASM> This really makes [...]

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It’s been an annoying few days. The worst thing, of course, is that our corporate overlords are hell-bent on installing a paywall on the website, which has been free since its beginning. Anyone who knows anything about the Internet knows that this is astoundingly stupid. Putting a paywall on a newspaper website approaches Paul Cristofero-like [...]

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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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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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