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... )

K. and I just experienced a thorough trouncing on the foosball table courtesy of G. and T..

When the game ended, he walked away without speaking another word to me.

"I mean, I know we are on flex-hours, but this is ridiculous. It seems like if someone is going to be later than... ten-thirty, well, then they should give me a call. What do you think? Is that unreasonable?"

This discussion was taking place in my office. My manager was asking K., as our team's tech lead, his opinion. As hard as it is to ( Read more... )

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... )

I must have done something to fall under the good graces of the Foos Gods. This morning, I trounced my ex-cubiclemate in three games straight (not only did he lose all, but he was skunked right off the bat). This afternoon, I sacrificed to the local Foos avatar (offering up myself as his victim in a handful of games, each a humiliating defeat) in ( Read more... )

Nothing to report.

Existence droning on. Business as usual.

I fix bugs, I submit patches, and I play foosball. Together, T. and I defeated the boss. He did not expect my vibrating palm style. My five man defense spits in the face of my victims. I stuffed him twice, scored more than that ( 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... )

Hrmph!

Monday.

Another Monday.

Another late start (woke up at 7:30 expecting to workout, then promptly returned to sleep until nearly 9).

Another cancelled meeting (this makes roughly the 5th successive Monday morning meeting to be cancelled minutes after I arrive at work).

Another escape into foosball (barely managed to defeat T. in a 2 out ( Read more... )

How is it that I keep getting these fucking bugs? The ones that involve three engineers staring blankly at code for a long time before deciding I need to contact whatever mystery man was responsible for the fucked up code change that spawned my current situation ( Read more... )

I managed to get little or nothing done today (at work ( Read more... )