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I am very tired. The work is still not done. My legs hurt, my eyes hurt, and my feet hurt. I am going to rest for a few hours (give the tape time to spool some more data off) and then get back to work.
I miss Sarah.

Mike and Rachel are meeting me for dinner. They are my saviors.
In other news, I am getting about a 55% compression ratio. This is good as it increases the possibility of me fitting 30GB of data into about 16GB of space.

Watching a backup tape unspool onto disk and moving chunks of data from one box to another every now and then as it spools off is not fun. Especially when you are staving, and doing it alone.

Today has not been a good day at all.

About three years ago, at my place of employment, another department managed a system that we'll call SHIT. SHIT ran on a mainframe and was very old. On top of this, it cost a lot of money to keep up and most of the functionality of it had been replaced by newer systems. The group [...]

I had a good time this weekend. Sarah came over Friday night and we watched Midsummer Night's Dream. I dozed off just before the big play at the end. I was pretty tired having got up early for work that morning, and then having cleaned all afternoon/evening instead of taking a nap like I should [...]

I'm leaving from work now and thought I was would send this as a reminder to you all:
I have no Internet access at home. I may not have Internet access all weekend. Therefore, if you need to speak to me, or want to hang out, or even just want to say "hi" and expect me [...]

Uhhh.. They found the Former Enron Vice-Chairman J. Clifford Baxter dead in his own car with a supposedly self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head. I wonder if he killed himself believing he would be punished and unwilling to bear it, or if he were unable to bear the guilt of his actions after committing them. [...]

Friday
4:00pm - get off work
4:30pm - get to Joel's to help with Amp install
6:00pm - leave Joel's
6:15pm - purchase some groceries and a small dog
6:30pm - rent MSND
6:45pm - clean apartment and do laundry
8:45pm - take shower
9:00pm - get ready
9:15pm - wait for Sarah
9:30pm - go to dinner with sarah
11:00pm - watch MSND

Saturday
1:00am - chat [...]

Sn0w Daddy and I are going to Cafe Brazier (a, rather upscale, gentlemen's club that has recently been added on to Cafe Brazil in Richardson in order to boost sales) for lunch. Then we will proceed to a Nissan dealership to test drive a Maxima. I'm not quite sure why, but I very rarely turn [...]