It's January... so more pics of warmer days!

I think we'll have to move to a detached home now that I'm playing the saxamaphone again. Our neighbours must hate hearing scales in keys with more than 3 flats or sharps... As it is, I feel like I shouldn't be playing any later than 9pm, but frequently I don't get home until well after 7pm. *sigh*

These long dark days are getting to me I think. I've only been back at work for less than a week and already I'm ready for another 2 week vacation. Time for more summer nostalgia!

It's like one of those old Choose Your Own Adventure books from the early 80s -- Trial in the Colosseo. So... lions or not?

I <=> II

III <=> IV

The Year of Living Dangerously

I probably shouldn't be launching such a major change to our web pages at work, on my last day before 2 solid weeks vacation, but I'd rather not have to remember all the details to switch over to the new dynamic market statistics PDF generation. It's a twisty labyrinth of a multiserver file system with many database sources. Just keeping all the symbolically linked directories in my head simultaneously is making my brain itch.

So I've been doing as much testing today as possible, maybe have a quick peek from home tomorrow evening to see if I broke the internets.

I'm taking off 3 hours earlier than yesterday... 4pm! X-treme!

4am - the ugliest part of the day

Early day today. Got to sleep at 11:30pm last night and up to start work at 4am. Changes a-plenty in the systems and I needed to do even more code changes and watch it deal with different data scenarios with the state of the databases specifically at that time of day.

Five hours sleep and a 4am wake up time leaves me in a foul mood. Wanted to kill Django, as the little sh*t kept interrupting me as I began the extreme crunch time between 6am-8am. I kept shooing him, and he returning and clawing at me until I had had it and shut him in the bathroom for that 2hr span. (Apparently he thought this was "outside the box" thinking and reciprocated later outside his box for A). Cat didn't know how close he was to being an ex-cat.

Ate good Ethiopian food for lunch with Dave L, Dave V, and Vanessa and Ed. Nice long lunch, over 1.5 hrs, then back for meetings and work until I finished my labours after 5:30pm. Very happy to get out early!