"Irony bars. Now with 30% less tin!"

I am doing better today than I did yesterday. Still massively stuffed up -- and the various naturopathic things that I am doing seem to be helping.

Finished my test in reasonable time yesterday. Seems that studying for *three* SOLID *DAYS* may have paid off, cause I was able to dredge up the needed info even while I was sick.

Well, yesterday went both far better and (somewhat) worse than I wanted yesterday.

The bad part was that I wasn't able to stomp out that last, annoying, bug. Arrg.

The good parts?

• I got a thank you directly from my manager and the VP of the company for the work that I had done for them. Ted, the VP, said that he was amazed by my being able to ( Read more... )

You know you're a sushi addict when the owners of your favourite local sushi restaurant know you by name.

I talked with my adviser at school today. It looks like all systems are go for me to graduate next year. (At long, long, long, last.) Furthermore, I have submitted my application to graduate.

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After being amazed at the ongoing smallness of the world, I must go thud. (Gahhh... I have to get up in 7 hours,) This will be the last semester that I take an 8:30 am class if I can help it. :P

When incrementing at 2000Hz, the difference is
12.5 days until rollover (and crash)
vs
292.27 million years

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Well, I've told almost all of the major players at work. The remaining person will be told tomorrow. I'll try to mention it to him before I make my "official" announcement at our team meeting ( Read more... )

Wow. It feels like it's been a while since I've last posted. (And that would be because it *has* been a long time since I last posted. 6 days shy of 3 months, in fact ( Read more... )

This last weekend, one of my coworkers died. It came as a big shock, for a number of reasons.

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