Monthly Archives: May 2003

I’m doing fine…

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although it’s still a bit of a shock.

(Before I forget:

€1 ≈ $1.17
£1 ≈ $1.63
Saturday’s weigh-in: 193.5 (Yay! And after Vegas! Stress does wonders for weight loss! 😀 )

So here begins the home stretch of my current work.

I promise I’ll make entries about the Las Vegas trip later today.

Oh yeah, Arsenal 1-0 Southampton in the FA Cup! 2 years running! (And I still think we should have won the EPL.)

I’m still here…

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but busy, obviously.

Thanks for all your kind words. I at least will still be collecting a paycheck until the end of July or when I get a new job. Monday I’ll know to whom and what knowledge to transfer.

I spoke with my boss this morning. He was the one who negotiated that I stick around until 7/31, otherwise I would have been gone yesterday. I really appreciate that.

Back to the job web sites. 🙂 I’ll say that things have changed since 1995, the last time I had to do this (with no job), thanks to the Internet.

Back at work, 90% spam…unbelievable

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I don’t need my P E N I S enlarged or my bustline increased. Thanks, anyway – not!

€1 ≈ $1.15
£1 ≈ $1.62
Saturday: 195 lbs. I don’t want to think about this Saturday.

Things didn’t blow up too badly while I was gone. That’s good. The one nasty error turned out to be a user error.

I’ve still got a lot of stuff to catch up on, and Truffles thinks that it’s feeding time (another 45 minutes, sweetie). But I’ll write up a trip report later on. We did get an early start; since everything was done in the morning, we had Monique fille come over around noonish to get the keys, waited for the mail to show up, and left for Primm (where rooms were available at $50). (BTW, jumbach, from this page, State Line (note the 2 words, Stateline is in Tahoe) was renamed after the founder of the community, Ernest Primm, in 1996.)

Take out one line of code too many…

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and you drive yourself NUTS!

So I’ve spent ALL DAY trying to figure out why the updated source works, but not the zap source.

I even took a shower to clear my head – no dice.

I went and bought 60 retaining wall bricks for a new border for Bubba, and helped Cheri lay them – no dice.

I was almost ready to cry. It was that bad.

Cheri cooked pizza. “Canadian Bacon” with a mixture of BBQ and spicy teriyaki sauce. Yummy. That finally cleared my head.

Finally went back and compared to the original source used to generate the base level, and I finally found it; when I rewrote the zap a couple of days ago, I omitted one instruction, and messed up the logic path where the problem originated.

But I went to test it, and the sample report where the error was occurring had been purged with the coming of the new day in Germany. I did send an email to *KO, who had said he would check his e-mail on Saturday, and asked him to apply and test the zap. (He telecommutes, and lives in a little village in Switzerland about 1/2 south of Basel. Lucky bastard. 🙂 ) I’ll check my e-mail tomorrow morning, and if it didn’t work, I’ll work on it after all the house cleaning that needs to be done is done, and after the girl who lives across the street comes over to pick up the keys and remember where all the food is (she is the one who will be pet-sitting and picking up the mail).

I just finished bleaching my teeth, so they’ll look purty for Vegas. 🙂

Which reminds me – I need to call the Times and stop the paper.

That’s done.

Well, if I don’t post tomorrow, have a nice first part of the week. No computer, so no posting in LV. Behave yourselves, please. 🙂

P.S. Does anyone want any CAT bus books?