• Moderately hellish, yes.

    So it’s still over 80 degrees out there, a bit after midnight. I don’t even want to think about what temperature it is here in my room. I’m going to try to sleep again anyway, because I’m effing tired, dammit.

    The last two days have not been fun. It started out Thursday morning when I went to make a new playlist on my Neuros (portable music player). I was prompted to upgrade the firmware, and since that’s normally a good idea I went ahead and did so.

    This promptly rendered my device unusable. As of this writing I’m still going back and forth with Neuros’ support forums about how best to resolve this mess. (So far the instructions have only made things worse. Argh.)

    And then there’s my workdays. I worked an eleven hour shift Thursday, leaving at 8pm. (But hey, I got two plates full of yummy Bamboo Grove food for my troubles.) I got home, puttered around a bit and finally fell asleep around midnight… and an hour later my phone went off. Turns out the guys working on the UPS managed to kill power to the entire facility briefly. So I got to trudge down to the office at 1:30 in the ay em on an hour’s sleep to resurrect all of the servers and other equipment. There were no major casualties this time, but we did have a serious problem with the Cybex KVM switching system that took until about noon to resolve.

    I finally got out of work almost exactly twelve hours after arriving… only to walk headfirst into the hottest damned day of the summer so far. My bedroom’s a freakin’ sauna… but I had to sleep anyway. At least, I tried to. I’m pretty sure I got some sleep anyway.

    I’ve spent the last few hours alternating between hanging out downstairs (watching Stargate and Scrapped Princess by turns) and coming upstairs to check the Neuros forums for new ideas to fix my dead device.

    Now, though, I just need to lay down. I’m tired, dammit. And it’s damned hot in here…

  • That’s right. Appreciate me!

    I didn’t know about this! Why didn’t anyone tell me before now?

    SysAdmin Appreciation Day

  • Prius: With built-in driving hazard!

    Matt of debris.com fame took a rental Toyota Prius out for a spin, and wrote up a fairly detailed review. This bit about the dashboard display gave me a chuckle:

    This screen is fascinating. It’s a driving hazard, there’s no question. New Prius owners should have someone else drive them around until the urge to stare at the screen can be managed.

    Anyway, read the whole entry, won’t you?

    (Dude. He’s clocked over 1000 entries. I’m only… er… a bit less than a hundred behind him. Hmm.)

    2004 Toyota Prius review

  • Sunday, Mari Sunday

    I haven’t seen The Imperial Princess of Cute very often lately, what with my busy life and her busy life not giving us much in the way of coinciding free time.

    We remedied that for a while this past weekend. I trekked out towards her place Sunday morning for a round of shopping and lunching followed by crashing out on her couch watching silly DVDs. Oh, and I gave Mari a nice score on Sutek’s Tomb so she’d get a new Neopets avatar. What are friends for, eh?

    Then Doug got home, and Lilith and Geoffrey and Anxiety-the-younger-demonspawn came over for dinner and a movie (A Fish Called Wanda, which turned out to be both more and less entertaining than I remembered it to be, for some reason). We also all hung out and chatted like we usually do, though this time it included poking some well-meaning fun at a forum post Lil’ and I had seen online.

    Alas, it was a Sunday and most of us had responsibilities early the next day, so my fellow guests and I departed shortly after 9pm. All told, it was one of the more enjoyable Sunday afternoons I’ve had in a while. Thanks for having me over, Mari!

  • Two-Hit Wonders

    At the always-delightful J-Mo’s place, proposed sequels to a number of one-hit wonders…

    reflections: two hit wonders

  • Airflow

    Normally, especially in the east side of town, if you have a dwelling with windows that open to the east and west, and you open them, you get airflow.

    For some reason, this is not the case today. It’s icky. It’s hot. It’s effing muggy. Fans aren’t helping. Cold beverages only take the edge off briefly.

    Yay, summer. *sigh* And here I was hoping to get some decent sleep tonight…