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It was a slow day at work today.  I left early.  A lot of people (management-level) were out for a party at our VPs house.  Sadly I’m not currently management level and wasn’t invited. After work I finished up some Christmas shopping.  Other than that, it was a relaxing evening at home.  I’m still getting [...]

I was still feeling like crap and took a day off from work today.  I still did some work though; it’s hard to keep me away.  But it helped a lot to take it easy and take naps. During the day I watched the first four episodes of ‘Entourage’ at Larry’s suggestion.  It’s pretty good! [...]

I woke up this morning and did a lot.  I showered, dressed, flipped the laundry, made the bed, packed up the car with all of the crap, dumped the trash, got gas in the car, went to the post office, mailed the letter, mailed the package, bought stamps, and finally made it to work! All [...]

I didn’t get much work done today because I was stuck in many meetings today. James E, Alex D, Casey T, Jeff C, and I went to lunch at Smokey Bones. After lunch I talked with Sameer at great length about the different versions of Eclipse and which one works best for our system and [...]

Things were less stressful at work today.  Carole and I decided to delay the production date of the 4.1 release until after January 1st.  This is to put less pressure on us with the load freezes around the end of the year.  I feel better about this as we’ll have more time to test out [...]

I worked all day from home on release 4.1 stuff today.  I also chatted a little with cousin John via Google Talk.  He’s working hard on his Doctoral Thesis.  Jennifer was up at her house cleaning it up since Katie and Chris just moved out the day before. Jennifer got home and we changed and [...]

Jen and I helped Katie and Chris move to their new house.  This took pretty much all day long. Katie treated us to a nice lunch at ‘Firehouse Subs‘. Jen and I made it home at around 4pm and proceeded to shower, change, and got ready to head out. Clint was having a birthday party [...]

I worked from home all day today.  It was super busy with the pending ’4.1′ release to the integration environment (SI).  In addition, I had a ton of emails flying around for work today too. When Jen got home this evening I dropped what I was doing and we went to dinner to Muss & [...]

A while back I created a script to run on cron every five minutes to check the health of my internet connection. I’ve since extended this script to reboot the router after six failed attempts to restart the connection to the ISP. I did this because I noticed at least once that simply telling it [...]

We awoke and headed to breakfast. There’s a little Chinese ‘store’ which also serves a great breakfast next-door to our hotel. Unfortunately they don’t open until 10 am. We headed over the grocery store and sat near the beach for a while. It was beautiful and quite relaxing. (A plane spotter photographing an incoming US [...]