The day that was
Capping off a pretty good work-week, was the Friday that kept going and going and goddamn going.
This morning I ran 3 errands on the way in to the office, then moved forward a bit on an infrastructure project, fixed a few bugs in ongoing work, and had a cool conversation with dan on my lunch break.
(In case it's ever useful for you, calling from Canada, Cici telephone cards are TEH BOMB. $0.04 per minute to call to the US and most places in Europe; $0.10 to call Russia. I can't believe how long my $10 card has lasted. I still have $2 and dan's back in the country tomorrow. Yay!)
I poked into a few bugs after lunch, and wondered whether I had time to do more big-project work.
Just after 4pm, I got a call that my lab's computers won't let anyone log in. I swear Murphy just waited for Friday 4pm. So with the help of someone who knows some of the innards of our accounting software, we found a workaround. I will be digging into a real fix on Monday. I am so tired of how brittle this decade-plus-old accounting system is. I'm coming in Monday with a list of must-see fixes. Some are my responsibility, some are going to be other peoples'. But this is just stupid.
At 6:45, I went, oh shit, I was supposed to be home 15 minutes ago for a freecycle pickup. Home I raced, and the recipient was waiting in her van for me; so I handed it off and immediately zipped out the door to meet![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kourtneyshort downtown for sushi.
Downtown core closed due to car show. There are so many old cars in this town it makes me nuts occasionally. Like, when I want to get me and my bike through them to the other side of King Street. Grr. So much smog, too, what with revving engines and 100 cars parade-crawling. Grr.
Happily, Kourtney started eating without me; and we had a great dinner. Super conversation, great food; the only thing I would've preferred would be if I'd been able to show up 30 minutes earlier.
Then home again, to learn the lab accounts broke again before A. could finish his part of the fix. So I re-applied my part, emailed the TA, and took Rover for a long walk.
I've just gotten back to a cold beer and a happy email from the Prof teaching for the lab.
Andmelted_snowball's awesome Russian photos.
This morning I ran 3 errands on the way in to the office, then moved forward a bit on an infrastructure project, fixed a few bugs in ongoing work, and had a cool conversation with dan on my lunch break.
(In case it's ever useful for you, calling from Canada, Cici telephone cards are TEH BOMB. $0.04 per minute to call to the US and most places in Europe; $0.10 to call Russia. I can't believe how long my $10 card has lasted. I still have $2 and dan's back in the country tomorrow. Yay!)
I poked into a few bugs after lunch, and wondered whether I had time to do more big-project work.
Just after 4pm, I got a call that my lab's computers won't let anyone log in. I swear Murphy just waited for Friday 4pm. So with the help of someone who knows some of the innards of our accounting software, we found a workaround. I will be digging into a real fix on Monday. I am so tired of how brittle this decade-plus-old accounting system is. I'm coming in Monday with a list of must-see fixes. Some are my responsibility, some are going to be other peoples'. But this is just stupid.
At 6:45, I went, oh shit, I was supposed to be home 15 minutes ago for a freecycle pickup. Home I raced, and the recipient was waiting in her van for me; so I handed it off and immediately zipped out the door to meet
kourtneyshort downtown for sushi.Downtown core closed due to car show. There are so many old cars in this town it makes me nuts occasionally. Like, when I want to get me and my bike through them to the other side of King Street. Grr. So much smog, too, what with revving engines and 100 cars parade-crawling. Grr.
Happily, Kourtney started eating without me; and we had a great dinner. Super conversation, great food; the only thing I would've preferred would be if I'd been able to show up 30 minutes earlier.
Then home again, to learn the lab accounts broke again before A. could finish his part of the fix. So I re-applied my part, emailed the TA, and took Rover for a long walk.
I've just gotten back to a cold beer and a happy email from the Prof teaching for the lab.
And
melted_snowball's awesome Russian photos.