I finished all of the programming tasks I had planned out for today 45 minutes earlier than I expected! I expected these tasks to take me all day today, but I finished up at 3:15 PM. That almost never happens! I’m not even certain I know what to do now! I’m going to happy hour…
I ended up sleeping about 12 hours last night. As I mentioned, I went to bed at 4:30 PM. I woke up briefly around 10:30 PM. I ate something, got my things ready for work the next day and then watched an episode of Magnum P.I. By 11:30 PM, I was back to sleep. When…
I’m too exhausted to even begin to get into all of the computer woes we are having at my work right now. My work computer was messed up and I’m in the middle of rolling out one software project and starting on another. I literally could not work from the office this morning, so I…
I am rolling out some software at work tomorrow and that requires me pulling an all-nighter tonight. I only have to do this about once a year and if I make good progress on the rollout tonight (when my work won’t affect anyone else) then it will make my day tomorrow much, much easier. So…
I turn on the afterburners at 11 AM, trying to get done the remaining data configuration and testing out my training accounts to make sure they are working properly. By the time they are, it is nearly noon. I still haven’t eaten. I decide that I could use a break. I close my door, turn…
After posting my update, I debate in my head whether I should include the joke Karen told me in the post. I included it originally but ultimately decide to remove the joke not because it was not funny, but because I’m not sure Karen would want me attributing that joke to her. I hear from…
I start in on the meta-data updates and it goes pretty well and I am more or less focused. I get through the categorizations and then start adding summary templates, and finally move on to the creation of groups and sample users for the class this afternoon. In a Puckish moment, I decided to create…
I had very little time to journal today because events at work had me switching projects changing deadlines, and in general just trying to stay afloat. To make up for the slow journaling day, tomorrow I am going to do a “day in the life” series of entries. The idea is that I will write…
It’s been crazy today, as evident by the fact that it’s now almost 2:30 and this is my first entry of the day. It has mostly to do with work. I have three projects on which I am working. One is scheduled to roll out on Monday. Another in about 5 weeks. The last I’m…
This is no revelation. But we M$ products at work, and one which I use quite a bit is Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 and Visual Source Safe. This morning, after compiling an application successfully, Visual Studio went bye-bye silently. No application exception, nothing in the event log. Nada. A reboot didn’t seem to fix the…
Moore’s Law states that the transistor density of semiconductor chips would double roughly every 18 months. Another formulation of this law says that RAM storage capacity increases at about the same rate as processing power. I mention this because I got some additional RAM for my work laptop today bringing my total RAM capacity to…
Today, August 1, marks my “official” 4 year anniversary living in Maryland. “Official,” because I actually moved out here on July 28, 2002, but I didn’t start up at work until August 1, so I use that date, because it’s a nice round number. I was reminded of this upcoming anniversary a few days ago…