Oh, lovely, you're a cheery one aren't you?
Friday, February 03
Some days I have a problem, and I spend hour after hour looking for a solution that doesn't bring more trouble than the problem itself, growing ever more frustrated until I want to kick the whole project to the kerb and take up potato farming.
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Wednesday, January 25
Feels like Friday.
Tomorrow's a public holiday, and I've had a hell of a week so far, so my brain was already busy planning for the weekend (sleep, set up blogs).
Um, no, brain. Not quite yet.
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Wednesday, December 21
Dead.
Well, that and playing mining engineer, but mostly just dead.
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Saturday, November 26
Well, technically, stridulation. Last night there was an invisible cricket the size of a '57 Chevy directly outside my bedroom window.
I say it was that big based on the noise it made - the loudest insect I have ever encountered - and I say invisible because when I went outside, in the rain, with a torch, I couldn't see a damn thing, but it started right up again when I went back in and turned the lights off.
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Wednesday, November 16
Kindly depart my vicinity and return on a subsequent occasion.
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Monday, October 31
I have hot water, and on Thursday I will be getting a bathroom.
(Been having some plumbing problems at Pixy Labs recently. On the plus side, they've installed a hot water heater in place of my old tepid water heater. But I currently have a hole in the floor where my shower was.)
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Saturday, October 01
Working. At my day job, which just recently has also been my night job and weekend job. Pulled about 100 hours of overtime in two weeks.
On the upside, I'd planned to spend some time working with CouchDB and Redis, and I did.
On the downside, I'd planned to use them for Minx, and I didn't get to do that.
On the upside, I got to do far more scalability testing than I would have otherwise. (Shard CouchDB and Redis 100 ways? Sure. Scale out to 40 cores per server? No problem. Shovel in three billion records to see what breaks? You got it. Push 250,000 updates per second, sustained for days on end? Of course. Build a 300GB LRU cache of sorted sets? Certainly.)
On the downside, I'm exhausted.
On the upside: Successful product launch. And I do get paid for the overtime.
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Saturday, August 13
My hot water heater* just unfailed.
It failed at about 11PM last night, or at least, sometime between 7PM and 11PM. I ended up having a cold shower, and since it's currently about 7C here, when I say cold shower I mean AAARRGH!!!! COLDCOLDCOLDCOLD!!!!
I tried resetting it to no avail, and was going to take another look at it in the morning before trying to get it repaired over the weekend when I heard some strange clicky noises coming from outside. What, I pondered, could be making strange clicky noises at this time of night?
(Turns on hot tap.)
(Waits a few seconds.)
(Receives hot water.)
Well, that's an improvement.
* As opposed to cold water heater. Well, except that it does heat cold water, there being little point to heating hot water.
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Tuesday, July 05
It's so windy, a light bulb just popped out of the ceiling.
No, really.
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Thursday, June 30
The other thing about Rivers is that their online store takes the Steam approach to sales.
That is, its prices are regularly half that of their big-city retail stores (and the same as their country clearance stores). But they have a constantly changing set of items that can be 75% off the already 50% off, so if you stop by at the right moment, a shirt that retails for $60 could cost $8, but be back to full (that is, half) price the next day. In fact, a couple of shirts I ordered only two hours ago (along with the shoes) just dropped from $8 to $5... And the shoes I ordered doubled in price.
(Which really tells you where the money goes in the rag trade, and it ain't on the manufacturing.)
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