So, I came into the office on my birthday, despite still fighting off a cold. However, no work was to be done. My cubicle is occupado.

( It's a bit full. )

This guy right here, that's who ( Read more... )

At our company Christmas lunch today, we were given tomorrow off (in addition to Christmas and the day after, which we already had off).

Five-day weekend, here I come! :)

Also, everyone has a stocking waiting for them by the door to grab on the way out... I wonder what's in there...

I was hoping to leave work an hour or two early to avoid the worst of rush hour ( Read more... )

I have 3 days of vacation time that I have to use up by the 12th of November or they're gone (since it resets after each year of employment).

Halloween through election day, I'm staying home. :) If anyone wants to do anything during the day, let me know!

There's nothing like tracking down bad code left by a previous developer, fixing it, and going from around 4,800 extraneous database queries to generate something to around 95 useful ones.

I like seeing improvements measured in orders of magnitude. :)

I had every intention of making an LJ post on my birthday, a week ago, but then life happened, threw me off my groove, and I'm just now catching back up ( Read more... )

I now grok Java class loaders, if not in fullness, in a reasonable facsimile thereof. It took me about a day and a half of study and work, and exactly 150 test runs before I got everything quite right.

URLClassLoader, you are now officially my bitch.