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Jan. 6th, 2006 12:29 amWorking until about 3am Monday and Tuesday night really messed me up. Tonight, shortly after my wife went to bed, I fell asleep on the couch, woke up to watch the last minute of the Red Wings' shutout victory over St. Louis (go Manny!), then fell asleep again for another two hours. So now I'm not tired enough to go to bed.
That's okay, because I don't have to leave for work until about 11am tomorrow. Of course, I need a haircut and another round of routine auto maintenance for the car, preferrably before I trek up to Petoskey, but if I fail at it tomorrow, maybe I'll drop the boy off with my in-laws and brave the inevitable Saturday morning rush in both places.
Speaking of work, I'm pretty irked about the overall job that I was plugging away at Monday and Tuesday; it's way the hell out of my alleged territory, and I really had not been volunteering to be lead tech on it when I told my supervisor, Craig, that I would help out on it. But, and I'll bet cash money on this one, I'm going to be the only tech for the entire install. Craig keeps promising me help, but it has yet to materialize, and I doubt that will change. In fact, I wasted my first two nights on this gig helping out the wiring guys (not bad work, just technically not my work) instead of doing things like configuring the server and all thirty-odd PCs.
In much happier, night-job news, John Scalzi has posted the (nearly) final lineup of stories for the Subterranean Magazine Sci-Fi Cliche Issue. Very nice to be included with friends and Big Names (and friends who are Big Names) alike. Gives me a right cozy feeling. Hopefully I won't get dropped from the issue for mentioning that "F" comes before "H" alphabetically.
Right now, I'm listening to the Gorillaz Demon Days album which I bought last week before heading down to Brighton for my first overnight there. Outstanding stuff, for those who can dig their extreme quirkiness. I also picked up Audioslave's Out of Exile, which is quite excellent. Also, I picked up a few books, and I'm tempted to try to join![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
matociquala (and others) in the book-a-week challenge. The only reason I'm contemplating it, of course, is that I'm already off to a torrid start, having started and finished PJ Tracy's Live Bait Tuesday while waiting to start work. Good book, though as with their first effort, I'm not sure the pseudonymous writing team's tech knowledge is really up to snuff. Which is usually not a problem, except when one of your protagonists is a software developer.
And speaking of tech, are we really that close to "hyperdrives" that New Scientist is talking seriously about them?. Seriously?
That's okay, because I don't have to leave for work until about 11am tomorrow. Of course, I need a haircut and another round of routine auto maintenance for the car, preferrably before I trek up to Petoskey, but if I fail at it tomorrow, maybe I'll drop the boy off with my in-laws and brave the inevitable Saturday morning rush in both places.
Speaking of work, I'm pretty irked about the overall job that I was plugging away at Monday and Tuesday; it's way the hell out of my alleged territory, and I really had not been volunteering to be lead tech on it when I told my supervisor, Craig, that I would help out on it. But, and I'll bet cash money on this one, I'm going to be the only tech for the entire install. Craig keeps promising me help, but it has yet to materialize, and I doubt that will change. In fact, I wasted my first two nights on this gig helping out the wiring guys (not bad work, just technically not my work) instead of doing things like configuring the server and all thirty-odd PCs.
In much happier, night-job news, John Scalzi has posted the (nearly) final lineup of stories for the Subterranean Magazine Sci-Fi Cliche Issue. Very nice to be included with friends and Big Names (and friends who are Big Names) alike. Gives me a right cozy feeling. Hopefully I won't get dropped from the issue for mentioning that "F" comes before "H" alphabetically.
Right now, I'm listening to the Gorillaz Demon Days album which I bought last week before heading down to Brighton for my first overnight there. Outstanding stuff, for those who can dig their extreme quirkiness. I also picked up Audioslave's Out of Exile, which is quite excellent. Also, I picked up a few books, and I'm tempted to try to join
matociquala (and others) in the book-a-week challenge. The only reason I'm contemplating it, of course, is that I'm already off to a torrid start, having started and finished PJ Tracy's Live Bait Tuesday while waiting to start work. Good book, though as with their first effort, I'm not sure the pseudonymous writing team's tech knowledge is really up to snuff. Which is usually not a problem, except when one of your protagonists is a software developer.And speaking of tech, are we really that close to "hyperdrives" that New Scientist is talking seriously about them?. Seriously?