I finished my "priority bug fix" around three this afternoon. That is an immense weight off my shoulders. Hopefully, everyone will be so fucking stunned by how well the UI is working that they will ignore the fact that it has taken me nearly two weeks to actually get around to repairing that crap. As a reward, I played foosball with K., G., and ( Read more... )

Christ. K. and I just lost an untold number of games to G. and H. It seems that G. emerged from his "retirement" immediately upon receiving his six month evaluation (and no doubt noticing that foosball was not mentioned therein). He's been rusty the last couple of days, but today he and H. were on, while K. was completely off (complaining ( Read more... )

( More of me dicking around with H. on AIM )

In his defense, English is H.'s second language.

[H.]: Ok loser.... so what's your answer ?
[Xander]: I'll have to play the two of you alone because [T.] isn't answering.
[Xander]: Which is fine... I can beat you both.
[Xander]: Easily.
[H.]: No thank you... you are just full of XXXX ( Read more... )

Not the ideal night before resuming kickboxing - I slept less than my preferred eight. I, somewhat foolishly, made my first attempt at sleep without premedicating. Only managed to drowse about a half hour before the coughing forced me up and awake ( Read more... )

Not hardly teen-aged anymore, but that's not the point.

I told H. that I was doing the smoketest for Y.

"Why'd he chose you?"

A rather abrupt question, my answer was almost as abrupt but should have been -

"Because I'm a kiss-up."

I volunteered. I like to volunteer for more work. Why?

"Because I'm a kiss-up."I'm just covering my ass, ( Read more... )

I have to leave soon for dinner with the folks ( Read more... )