Sometime last night the power went out. I actually woke up because the APC UPS connected to turing (my linux server) was beeping. In my sleep-induced stupor, I first didn’t know what was going on. It took a minute for me to realize that the power was out (it was deathly-quiet except for the whirling from the linux box). This annoyed me but I went back to sleep not even caring that my alarm clock wouldn’t wake me up.
Even though I had my bedroom door closed, the beeping from the UPS was loud enough to bother me. I went back into the living room and fumbled around with the unit, intending to shut it (and the computer) off. I lamented about this because I couldn’t shut the computer off locally due to it being heedless (it would have been too much of a pain in the ass to connect the monitor to the UPS). I couldn’t use my notebook to shut turing off remotely due to the router needing power as well - in retrospect; I should connect the router to the UPS too. Instead of shutting the UPS off, I actually muted the warning beeps which was fine with me. I went back to sleep.
When I woke up this morning the power was back on and the linux box never lost power. I’m pretty impressed with the little UPS because I think it lasted quite a while without power.
Before I left for work, I installed Counter Strike: Condition Zero. I’m looking forward to playing the single-player mode of the game. I also answered some old emails that have been sitting in my inbox for a long time. I’m pretty bad about not answering emails, hopefully I can change this behavior.
I got a call from Kevin (my mortgage guy) this morning. He emailed me a cool 10-page PDF appraisal of my new townhome. It had cool detailed survey stuff as well a color photos and comparisons to other townhomes in the same community as well as one in a competing neighborhood.
Armed with the new info, I called up USAA to finalize the homeowner’s insurance application I started with them last week. I had the fire department info they needed as well. I was really happy with the yearly premium they quoted me.
I had to skip lunch today because I was so busy with the activation of code in integration. I spent pretty much all night last night building, deploying, and activating code to fix a memory leak (too bad I don’t get paid overtime). We were pretty rushed to get the code installed before 1pm today so I scrambled to get it done before that time. I would have had it installed much sooner, but I had a horrible time with the install script.
In fact, I was having so much trouble with the script that I had to open two defects against it in ClearQuest. John and I spoke about it and he’s going to assign it to the middleware group. I hope they get it fixed because right now it’s worthless and I have to do things by hand which takes longer and is more prone to error.
Also around this time I was pretty busy doing two performance tests in parallel. I worked with Lee to do a small performance test in the system test environment, and I also ran a performance test (against the new code) in integration.
Even after I finished the code install, I had to postpone lunch further because I had a 1pm meeting across the street to discuss our reference data strategy. That meeting lasted until 2:45pm.
After the meeting I ran to Wendy’s and got a burger meal to take back to my desk. I ate while I worked on continuing the performance test in the two environments.
At 3:30pm I had another meting which lasted an hour.
Finally when I got to my desk, I spent a great deal of time analyzing and presenting the data from the performance tests. I created an excel spreadsheet with the data as well as graphs and emailed it out to all of the necessary parties.
I didn’t leave work until 6pm. I went home, relaxed for about 45 minutes and then went over to Jen’s house.
Jen cooked dinner tonight which was one of her favorite dishes: spinach salad with fresh tomatoes, mozzarella chunks, and grilled salmon steaks. It was really good.
After dinner we had a craving for strawberries so we drove over to Publix. The strawberries they had in stock didn’t look very healthy so we got some slice-and-bake cookies instead.
We went back to her house and cooked six cookies and had them with soy milk. It was pretty good.
For the rest of the evening we watched television and I gave Jen a back massage.
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