still alive, etc
So, it's been even more ages and ages and ages and ages since the last time I blogged about anything than I'd remembered. If that bothered anyone, I'm sorry. It was just that work took a turn for *almost* the absolute worst. Which left me not wanting to have to think about that or any other problem after work. So I just stopped taking part in the interactive parts of the 'net. (Except for okaying/refusing friend requests on fb: they nag when you take too long to react, and besides, since that's about all I do on fb I figure it doesn't count.)
After months and months of frustration and not being able to find a bug that had to be found and fixed before the end of the year (as far as I knew then anyway), and despair and mistakenly thinking something was fixed, and more despair, and more despair, I finally did in the end find the cause of a mysterious bug that caused one of our Solaris programs to crash on start-up about 22.5% of the time, but only after I'd marked a certain Solaris problem-report I'd worked on as fixed. Which kind-of seemed to say that I was "the one what done it"... Which wasn't true, but it sure looked like it. It was just a complete nightmare, for way too long. And one of the funny things: my team-leader says he didn't notice. Maybe I'm deficient at showing frustration, I suppose...
I don't really know what more to write about, nothing really fundamental has changed in my personal life. Except maybe the fact that we're now taking care of a dog for the daughter of a chat-friend of Dad's (it's a loooong story). But we've had Deira over as a temporary house-guest/pet for quite a while now, and she's an absolute darling of a "wiener dog" I think Americans call 'em. Anyway, she's smart, loving, and an absolute scamp. But none of us would want her to be any other way...
After months and months of frustration and not being able to find a bug that had to be found and fixed before the end of the year (as far as I knew then anyway), and despair and mistakenly thinking something was fixed, and more despair, and more despair, I finally did in the end find the cause of a mysterious bug that caused one of our Solaris programs to crash on start-up about 22.5% of the time, but only after I'd marked a certain Solaris problem-report I'd worked on as fixed. Which kind-of seemed to say that I was "the one what done it"... Which wasn't true, but it sure looked like it. It was just a complete nightmare, for way too long. And one of the funny things: my team-leader says he didn't notice. Maybe I'm deficient at showing frustration, I suppose...
I don't really know what more to write about, nothing really fundamental has changed in my personal life. Except maybe the fact that we're now taking care of a dog for the daughter of a chat-friend of Dad's (it's a loooong story). But we've had Deira over as a temporary house-guest/pet for quite a while now, and she's an absolute darling of a "wiener dog" I think Americans call 'em. Anyway, she's smart, loving, and an absolute scamp. But none of us would want her to be any other way...