Has it been ten years already? Apparently it has. What started out as the “baby girl whose time had come” has grown into a precocious, pretty, caring girl who today celebrates one full decade among us.
Of course, now we’re coming up on the really fun part of her childhood.
(And by “fun” I mean, of course, “intensely scary and challenging.” Whee!)
Happy Birthday, Erica. You are the sunshine in all our lives.
Whoops, late again. Sorry about that. I was asleep by 10:00 last night, if that tells you anything about how exhausted I was. If I’d been thinking I’d have prepped this thing during one of my awakened stretches yesterday.
Don’t get me wrong (get me right! hah!), it’s not that I don’t love doing this. I just have a difficult time remembering when it’s Thursday night and I want to get the PPF ready by midnight. Ah well. Let’s do this thing.
PAST: Sometimes we get in trouble and really earn our punishment. Sometimes it’s all just a big misunderstanding. Is there such a story in your past that you’d like to share, of crossed wires and crossed swords?
PRESENT: How do you tend to deal with misunderstandings, particularly with close friends and loved ones?
FUTURE: “I’d like to apologize to the ambassador from Xanfropplegong III; you see, it was all just a great big misunderstanding. What really happened was…”
You should know the drill by now. Comment with your answers or a link thereto, and link back using the handy-dandy permalink which always points to the most-recent PPF: http://greyduck.net/ppf
Thank you!
I did, in fact, come in at midnight as planned. I managed an hour or two of napping beforehand, over the course of the evening.
I ran the MFSAV, I ran the JDS upgrade, I ran another MFSAV, I ran the electronic invoicing upgrade, and now I’m running one last MFSAV. That’s it. I’m done.
The plan is that five hours from now I’ll go home and see how much more I can screw up my sleep schedule. Between now (5:00am) and 10:00am I’ll probably putter around and do a few odd jobs to earn my keep. Nothing strenuous, mind you.
If anybody needs me today, I’ll be at home. Resting, if not sleeping. Please be gentle with me. Thanks.
Ladies and gentlemen, I’m a moron.
I didn’t come in at midnight. Instead I almost literally crashed at about 11:00, so I decided to come in at 4:30 and skip doing the full system backup I’d planned for midnight.
At least I got a few hours’ sleep.
The first instruction on the sheet as I go to do the JDS release upgrade says, “Do an MFSAV.” Sure, no problem, I can find that in the menus. I thought I did, and I ran a procedure that insisted it was doing the MFSAV. The first time through, though, it halted on a bunch of files because they were in use by another process. I found this out after my attempt to run the JDS upgrade script failed.
So I ran ENDUPM to free up those files, then ran my MFSAV script again. And the JDS upgrade script still insisted I hadn’t done so. At this point I put in a call to JDS tech support.
Who politely, and without laughing too loudly, told me that I was running the wrong MFSAV script.
By now it was almost 7:30, and the MFSAV takes half an hour. In other words, I blew three hours getting to the starting point of a process that was slated to take a total of three and a half hours… so I’d be done by the time the Traffic department wanted to start getting their work done.
So. No JDS upgrade today. JDS upgrade tonight, midnight-ish. And I’m a freakin’ moron.
Found at Slate:
One is presuming (is one not?) that this is the same god who actually created the audience he was addressing. This leaves us with the insoluble mystery of why he would have molded (“in his own image,” yet) a covetous, murderous, disrespectful, lying, and adulterous species. Create them sick, and then command them to be well? What a mad despot this is, and how fortunate we are that he exists only in the minds of his worshippers.
The full article is interesting reading, though not the sort of thing you can take without a grain or two of salt. For instance, the author uses the word “religion” when he means “Christianity and its cousins” in the last paragraph:
Too many editorialists have described the recent flap as a silly confrontation with exhibitionist fundamentalism, when the true problem is our failure to recognize that religion is not just incongruent with morality but in essential ways incompatible with it.
(via blargblog, by the creator of In Contempt Comics)
After many phone calls (already!) this week, here’s what my schedule currently looks like:
Today: Work, go home, eat, go back to work by midnight to kick off a tape backup, start the major software upgrade at about 5am, work through the day…
Tomorrow: Work, and in the evening install the invoicing software about which much trouble has been caused.
That’s right, I’m getting no sleep tonight. Woo hoo, baby. I’m going to need another vacation, and soon…
