Three things I accomplished today:

• Had a healthy breakfast (Kashi and light soymilk)
• Found a better solution to a potential loss of data
• Threw out the old bed in preparation for receiving the new one tomorrow (the mattress is on the floor)

Three things that made me happy today:

• Floatpoint (rich, poignant, and easy-to-play interactive fiction; WELL worth ( Read more... )

Three things that made me happy today:

• Finding a queen memory-foam mattress that feels great and is in very good condition, on clearance.  (A floor sample, made less than a year ago.)
• Having dinner and soft drinks, and sharing dessert, for about $10 before tip -- at a sit-down restaurant.  Without a coupon.  (We tipped $4, though; the server still ( Read more... )

Three things that I accomplished today:

• Used smokeping to help convince our vendor that there was a network problem.
• Explained to a totally unrelated vendor that now was not a good time for his call; hung up.  Then, two minutes later, explained to the same guy that we were about to bring our entire network hard down for emergency maintenance and I ( Read more... )

Quoted from a post I sent to our internal blog:

Network problems, you are ON NOTICE!
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Three things that made me happy today:

• Seeing Jodi crack up as I read her bits of I Like You: Hospitality under the Influence by Amy Sedaris.  (And cracking up when she said "Oh, is that a comedy book?  I thought it was real.")
  
• Getting complimented by the big boss (cc: to my boss and his boss) on handling a messy, frustrating problem at work.
• Being ( Read more... )

Three things that made me happy today:

• Resigning from both chess games with honor, and realizing that I enjoyed them enough that it didn't matter that I lost.  I'll probably return to those boards in a few days to analyze them.
• Having an early VD with Jodi (dinner and a movie)
• Specifically, watching Sweet Land (about which more later, probably in a ( Read more... )

Three things that made me happy today:

• Since my opponent didn't play 12. Kf1 Nc2, I stayed alive in this game.  I'd probably have resigned at that point.  I've also stayed alive against
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Three things that made me happy yesterday:

• Finding out that some of my PaperBackSwap books have arrived in their new homes
• Reading a Callahan's Crosstime Saloon short story ("Dog Day Evening") to Jodi
• Learning how to use Google SketchUp (work-in-progress below)
  
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I'm adding opening lines to a database to be selected randomly for the new library catalog.  I'm not planning to spend lots more time on the opening-lines database, but if there are some you'd like to suggest, please go ahead.

See the quotes here: http://bernie.tblc.org/suncat2/demo/