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Well! Another February 14 draws to a close, and (luckily, thankfully) it’s been a very, very good one thus far.
On the work front: we weathered the storm with aplomb, our site never faltering under the onslaught of the greetings industry’s biggest day, while our competitors dropped like flies. W00t! A side benefit […]

Keeping busy. More than a little stressed. The next couple of days are (as usual) critical. So far so good, though…
I’ve graduated from being assigned weird shifts for monitoring the farm during Val to being on call 24×7 for the duration; I’m not sure if this is an improvement or not, but it […]

Liz’s birthday is on New Year’s Eve (apparently her folks really wanted to claim the deduction ASAP), and since we generally prefer not to go out when it’s going to be a suicidal drunkfest on the highways, we tend to stay in and fix up something tasty to enjoy. This year, as part of […]

Phew! Even though I’ve been on vacation for a week, I don’t think I’ve been so busy in a long time! The cause? Liz crafted an elaborate “honey do” list to help me pass the time. Since last Friday, I’ve vacuumed, scrubbed, buffed, shined, mopped, painted, repaired, mailed, and picked up […]

My tasks are wrapped up.
Our techies are having a holiday party at Dave and Buster’s. Like schoolkids waiting for the last bell before a break, we are dismissed at one o’clock today, which seems like it will never come–time has stretched and slowed into an infinity of sluggish molasses.
And I’m on vacation until January. […]

Had two completely different weekends in one the past two days–one lazy and relaxing, and one busy and productive.
On the lazy front: sleeping in, watching the snow fall, playing with the cats, watching TV and movies of varying badness (from Hellboy to a Gene Autry movie whose title I never caught, but which was […]

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It’s funny how much better life is when you have cats pin you down in bed for several days on end. I’m feeling significantly better, and quite thankful to have shaken off the worst of what by all accounts is the Cold From […]

I could vent at length about my day, but there’s really no point.
Instead, I would just like to pause and note that today is 05/05/05, or, as I have decided to call it, “Cinco Cubed”. The next coolest date for Cinco de Mayo will be 2055, and I doubt that by the next time […]

After working eleven days straight, the weekend–a weekend, any weekend–is almost in sight. Hip-hip-fucking-huzzah!!
In brief: Valentine’s Day. We. Owned. It. Oh, baby, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh! After a year’s worth of fear, worry, and despair, it turned out that two or three weeks of frantic last-minute preparation […]

Have completed my first of four 5 AM to 2 PM shifts for Valentine’s Day. Managed to find and fix a couple production bugs today, whee! It’s just not Val without seat-of-your-pants bug fixes at strange hours of the morning. Other than that, so far, so good. I still think it’s […]