Zoom!

For a nice change of pace, I managed to get on the freeway about a half mile ahead of a traffic break this morning.

This meant I got halfway from alenxa’s office to mine at about 80, and the rest of the way at 50.

Much nicer than the day last week that averaged 15.

(This has been anoteer Useless FactTM)

Chain of Coincidence

Woke up early (for a weekend) yesterday and went out to breakfast. As we’d been out last night watching Harry Potter and alenxa was up even later baking cookies and scones for today, this was a more difficult feat than you might imagine…

Spent most of Saturday helping sekl and non_seqvitvr move, with largely the same crowd as the night before. Chances are most of you reading this were there, so there’s not really much point in describing it. We ended up bailing around 7:00 since my brain was starting to shut down.

The plan for the evening was to grab something at Starbucks, get home, at which point I’d go straight to bed while Katie got in a long-delayed round of Puzzle Pirates. It didn’t quite work out that way. First, while packing up the remnants of the home office, she’d found Jim & Stacy’s copy of the “Once More With Feeling” soundtrack. So she fired up the iPod on our drive back, and we listened to our copy. Second, I checked the mail when we got home, and found a box from Amazon… containing the Buffy the Vampire Slayer “Chosen Collection.”

“You won’t believe what showed up in the mail.”

“Um… okay…”

“Wanna watch ‘Once More with Feeling?’”

So we watched the Buffy musical. Then Katie hunted for the outtakes (which are only on some seasons, and the booklets don’t tell you which special features are on which discs, though you can at least tell which discs have special features by picking the ones that only have three episodes) while the caffeine vanished into the ether and my brain slowly turned off again, and I dragged myself to bed at the (for yesterday) late, late hour of 10:00.

Fogging Things Up

  1. When I got out of bed, alenxa said, “Hey, there’s fog out there!” A half an hour earlier, when she’d gotten up, it had been clear. By the time we left for work, all that was left was just enough haze to maximize glare and make the broken sun visor and lack of sunglasses a problem. We did get a great view of one of the ex-marine base blimp hangars where the near end was perfectly visible, but it faded into the fog so that the far end was completely hidden. (Naturally, by the time I dug the camera out, the light turned green and we didn’t get a picture.)
  2. There’s something fascinating about the high-tech/low-tech contrast in surgery where the instruments consist of a styrofoam cup and a long Q-tip. OK, the cup has to be full of liquid nitrogen, but it just seems so simple.
  3. Last week I got into work and said to a co-worker, “Is it just me, or do people not know how to drive in the rain?” “I think they just don’t know how to drive.” I spent nearly 10 minutes at a turn signal this morning because some idiot didn’t notice it turned green, and the next car was a big two-piece truck with no acceleration capability whatsoever. And then there was the freeway…
  4. Amazon’s shipping decisions just don’t make any sense. Last week I placed an order for three items (so I could hit that magic $25 and get free shipping). I checked the box to lump everything into as few shipments as possible. So of course they decided to just ship two of them. Then they shipped the third the next day. Yesterday, the second shipment arrived, but I’m still waiting for the first. Edit: The first package arrived today. It seems holiday shipping is already in full swing, because the UPS guy showed up around 7:30.
  5. Server room is freezing. This is good. When it isn’t, my boss says things like “You can smell the electronics trying to die!” And things crash. And we have to spend half the day fixing things that crash.
  6. Speaking of things that crash, I’m getting very annoyed at Microsoft’s decision in MFC 7.0 to stop hiding menus and toolbars in Print Preview mode.

Manic Monday? Pfehhh!

While I can’t predict how crazy today will be, I already know tomorrow’s going to be nuts, what with…

  1. The election (all you Californians are planning to vote, aren’t you?).
  2. A deadline at work.
  3. Microsoft Patch Tuesday.

All this means that I can’t stay home with the cold that I picked up on Saturday!

(Reminder to self: must remember to blog when happy.)

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