It's a busy week: the students are moving back into the dorms, the faculty is returning to their offices, everyone's working double tides to make sure everything's right and tight for the start of classes next Tuesday.

Therefore, of course, I've come down sick.

I seem to have fought off most of the symptoms--it's chiefly manifesting as total soul ( Read more... )

I left sweh's midafternoon, with a multi-faceted but not over-complicated program; drive south, check in on nedlnthred's cats as she's away for the weekend (and drop off some things and pick up some things), drive on to Jersey City, drop Bud off at our favored mechanics so they can figure out what's to be done about his muffler (and give him a general check-up ( Read more... )

So, a few developments for those who are not living in my brain ( Read more... )

( Since Wednesday night, I have been laid flat by the magic nose goblins... )

We have some several small-form-factor PCs which we were testing for use in the student terminal 2.0 roll-out. One such is a Dell Optiplex 760, which was way too big for the job at hand; and since trying to run Windows in a VM on my desktop iMac eats all my computrons, on spride's advice I snarfed it to stick under my desk and remote into when I have ( Read more... )

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I submit Yet Another bug report to Payroll about their precious new web app, which is once again puking unindicative server errors at me. The response, in its entirety:

"You need to find out first if you filled out it, please call me to go throu. x 12345"

syringavulgaris: First, there was the EA booth babe stupidity which I now realize is hyping Dante's Inferno.
syringavulgaris: Because the sin and the lust and the what not.
syringavulgaris: Then I actually looked at the description of the game.
syringavulgaris: I have no mouth and I must scream.
elibalin: I read L'Inferno. I do not recall any point at which anyone went nuts with a giant axe.
syringavulgaris: As you say.
syringavulgaris: AND ( Read more... )

I returned this evening from the podiatrist, who judges that I have plantar fasciitis. Short form if you are suffering TL;DR: the connective stuff on the bottom of my (left) foot? It's inflamed and sad. This happens if you run, if you're overweight, if you're female, if you lug heavy stuff around, and if you wear high-heels or flip-flops (any ( Read more... )

[Your humble correspondent returns from a meeting to see the baleful red eye of the voicemail glaring at her from her desk phone. She curses, and plays the message.]
Random Git's Message: Hi, this is Foo Bar. Can someone there please call me back. X12345 *click*
Your Humble Correspondent: Because what we love is some context in our messages. * ( Read more... )