It’s monday. Got up at 7:30am. About 5-6 early for me. An attempt to
show up at work before everyone starts leaving.

Spent the weekend helping my dad put together a shed. He wanted
to build a new one to replace another ancient one. And I suspect
it has something to do with him wanting a place to store his recently
purchased motorcycle. He wants to ride in “Rolling Thunder” this
year. I think I was about 10 the last time he rode a street bike.

Plus, you never have enough sheds. If for no other reason, they
are a good place to park the broken down cars behind. Ah, life
in Statesville…

Oddly enough, after using a hammer for most of sunday, and waking
early and having a busy “typing” day, my wrists arent hurting very much.
Either my chair “modifications” are working, or I need to spend more time
building stuff.

Vote for Japan Air at http://www.triadstyle.com/burncentercontest.html
. For some reason that reminds me of one of my favorite band shirts of all time, the
ALL/Allroy for prez
t-shirt. The small logo on the shield on the podium reads “A vote for All is a vote for All”. My kind
of humour.

hmm.

You know, I really dont have any thing interesting to say in these
entries. And the servers are down enough to make it kind of annoying.

Oh well, place to blather randomly I suppose.

Japan Air confirmed
the show with Trans Am
in April in winston-salem. Should be a cool show.

Work continues. Considing I’m way past feature freeze, I seem to be
putting way too much new code into things. But then again, today
I commited a total -43 lines of code. Some would say thats a good
thing.

One of the things we do is send out lots of email messages. It’s amazing
how many people will set a vacation message saying they are away for
_a day_. It’s email folks. It spools and stuff.

More playing with style sheets and html design bits in the spare time.
I am so happy I dont have to do web programming for a living. Instead
of html I get something sane like RPM. Oh dear…

the bad
– one machine lost a scsi card and it’s drive array with amongst other things, ssh on it
– two troublesome errata
– more deadlines than I care to think about
– attempting to actually run some test cases in the meantime
– trying to convey how to edit style sheets to someone who
doesnt know _any_ html/xml/css/ or much of anything about computers
– more thinking on the “generic way of handling special cases” TODO list
item that seems more absurd everytime I think about it
– wrist pain that seems to be starting earlier and earlier everyday. The
new chairs _suck_.
– meeting in the wee hours tomorow. Well, okay, 10am, but…
– completely forgot about sami’s birthday party. Doh.

the good
– jeremy seems intent on fixing the last one or two remaining bootloader
related bugs that can cause up2date to fail once in a while
– seem to be passing the automated test cases pretty consistently
– have at least sane versions of up2date in all the trees atm
– had fresh beef stew from the crock pot for breakfast

Blasting Ozric Tentacles as loud as I can seems to help. At least,
I’ll keep telling myself that.