Hippo, birdie, two ewes...

... to technogeek1!!!! Have a great one!

Done yesterday (20100811 We)

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A long, tiring day -- I woke up around 3:30 and as far as I know didn't get back to sleep. Finally gave up at 4:50 and made myself some breakfast. At least I got some good snuggle -- Colleen wasn't all that sleepy either. (Though she did go to sleep around 4am.)

Work was interrupted by a loud virtual crash as the LDAP server went down taking a large chunk of our infrastructure with it. Not me, though; I still use /etc/passwd and have distributed version control via git. Still didn't get much done in the afternoon, but getting two bugs fixed in the morning didn't hurt either my mood or my reputation.

Some good conversations in the evening, both in person and via IM. And Moira, who just acquired an iPad, gave us a Kindle. So we have two, now, which means that I can have one. Much lighter (though more fragile) than my netbook. Will have to see if it can be practical as a go-anywhere songbook.

My dreams included going to a hotel, where somehow I knew I would be going to work at soon. I didn't want to change jobs, especially not if it meant going into management or something customer-facing. I slept pretty soundly, though.

Thankful Thursday

... and actually on Thursday this week! Ok, here goes. I'm thankful for:

• Generous friends who prefer their shiny new iPads to a stodgy old Kindle.
• Friends, period.
• Colleen's continuing (if painfully slow) improvement in health.
• The git distributed version control system.
• A server that does us the favor of crashing half a year before we have to go live, warning us with its untimely demise that Amazon's cloud is unreliable. (Cue Phil Ochs' setting of "The Highwayman" here.)
• Tuna sashimi and caprese salad for two for under $20 via Trader Joe's, and a quick dinner that didn't involve any cooking.