Fragments
I got woken up this morning at about quarter to nine by a call I didn't answer in time, but on later hearing my voicemail turned out to be a plumber, referred to me by Allan and Bath because I told them our shower was leaking. The time wasn't much appreciated, but at least they've done something about it. I'll have to call him back and arrange a time for him to come over. Apparently, they also want to send someone over on Wednesday morning to inspect the house, to make sure we're looking after it. We've got it mostly tidy now, but we're concerned about a rather large stain on the living room carpet. We'll probably just have to try and cover that up.
We're going to Arundel Castle in a few hours time. Graham and Rachel had planned to go and invited me, and how could I turn down an opportunity to emotionally hurt myself? That just wouldn't be me. We want to be attempting to leave sometime soon after nine, so I should really try and get a little sleep. The three of us had a barbecue yesterday too, although we don't actually own a barbecue so we just bought lots of meat and took it over to Graham's parents' house to cook it there. Was a nice day. Actually, lots of the days this week have been quite good, which is strange because I've spent most of the week feeling very bad. On Monday night we went out for a drink with Graham's old work colleague Steve, who I'd met once before. The next day I got up really late, posted Adele's newly-replaced MP3 player and attempted to work from home, which failed miserably as usual. Wednesday and Thursday I seem to have no recollection of, yesterday was the barbecue I mentioned already, and today I've just been at work all day. My debit card expired and the crap postal service here meant I didn't get a replacement, so lots of services I was subscribed to have been sending me emails complaining that I haven't renewed my payment details, and I've been unable to. I finally have the new one now though.
The reason I haven't been feeling good is all relationship-related... my feelings at the moment are a mix of a lot of things. I sent Shanna an email about some of the things that are worrying me, but she's in Edinburgh for the weekend apparently, so I won't hear anything until Monday. Today was a lot better though, mainly due to progress at work. On Thursday I reworked a lot of VmspClient, and today I redesigned most of the server's request handling, and I'm very pleased with the result: per-account request queues, which allocate worker threads up to an account limit (currently three), and locking which allows concurrent reads but single writes for each distinct type of object. We deployed to the new servers (well, one of them) and it's all working well. I think I'm ready to go for another trial next week.
I'm now tired of writing, so I'm going to end this awfully-written entry and go to sleep.
We're going to Arundel Castle in a few hours time. Graham and Rachel had planned to go and invited me, and how could I turn down an opportunity to emotionally hurt myself? That just wouldn't be me. We want to be attempting to leave sometime soon after nine, so I should really try and get a little sleep. The three of us had a barbecue yesterday too, although we don't actually own a barbecue so we just bought lots of meat and took it over to Graham's parents' house to cook it there. Was a nice day. Actually, lots of the days this week have been quite good, which is strange because I've spent most of the week feeling very bad. On Monday night we went out for a drink with Graham's old work colleague Steve, who I'd met once before. The next day I got up really late, posted Adele's newly-replaced MP3 player and attempted to work from home, which failed miserably as usual. Wednesday and Thursday I seem to have no recollection of, yesterday was the barbecue I mentioned already, and today I've just been at work all day. My debit card expired and the crap postal service here meant I didn't get a replacement, so lots of services I was subscribed to have been sending me emails complaining that I haven't renewed my payment details, and I've been unable to. I finally have the new one now though.
The reason I haven't been feeling good is all relationship-related... my feelings at the moment are a mix of a lot of things. I sent Shanna an email about some of the things that are worrying me, but she's in Edinburgh for the weekend apparently, so I won't hear anything until Monday. Today was a lot better though, mainly due to progress at work. On Thursday I reworked a lot of VmspClient, and today I redesigned most of the server's request handling, and I'm very pleased with the result: per-account request queues, which allocate worker threads up to an account limit (currently three), and locking which allows concurrent reads but single writes for each distinct type of object. We deployed to the new servers (well, one of them) and it's all working well. I think I'm ready to go for another trial next week.
I'm now tired of writing, so I'm going to end this awfully-written entry and go to sleep.