Tag: A day in the life

Random things

Here are some random things that probably deserve their own posts but life has conspired against this.

  1. I walked in to the men’s room at $LOCAL_GROCER–a 1 and 1 set up. There was a pair of legs visible under the stall wall and the urinal was empty. The odd thing? The stall door was wide open and there was weird grunting coming from the other side of the wall. I did not tarry.
  2. The brewing room smells marvy what with a Belgian Wit, Nut Brown, and Gooseberry wine all burbling away.
  3. While WIX v3.6 is pretty much awesome when looked at from the perspective of WIX v3.0, it is still Windows Installer we’re dealing with. Which sucks.
  4. Being the mayor of places on Foursquare creates more obligations than one might expect. Well losing a mayorship makes one more inclined to visit a place than one might normally be. Why is it important to be mayor of the Bag ‘n’ Save? Especially when I cannot do anything about grunty open stall? I do not know.
  5. Rick Santorum headlines are pretty much always unintentionally funny these days.

Late night build support…

While composing a detailed “you broke the build and here’s how, but you’re not here so you’ll see this in the morning and have to answer the gnashing and wailing from the angry horde of testers” email, I was chatted up by hotandhorny13.

a picture of the chat window...you're really not missing much

I did not blur the URL to the probable malware site linked. If you’re fatheaded enough to type it into your address bar and browse that site, you deserve what you get. Just sayin’…

Chewing Rags

After not a whole lot of talking on the mobile (and my only currently functional) rig in the last month, I’ve had a couple of good chews in the last 24 hours.

First I hooked up with my pops (KD0INW) last night on 2 meter. He was in Lincoln and I in Bellevue. We used K0ASH to bridge the distance. I had to mobile my rig across the street and up the hill a bit to get a quality connection while his trip up 70th Street in Lincoln was pretty S9 the whole way. We ran in to some issues when he passed through the industrial park so signed off. Still, it was pretty awesome. Hope to find him again.

Second was this morning on the way into work. After hitting K0ASH a few times I started scanning the programmed stations. I came across a CQ call on the KA0JTI 440 repeater and had an Internet-mediated conversation with N4LOS in Florida. Pretty great and sadly ran out of time (pulled in to the parking lot at work) before we could chat a bit more. Chatted about growing up in Lincoln and compared the weather between NE and FL. Pretty much the same this week.

So, that was fun. I’m feeling a bit more confident on the mic and carrying on open-ended conversations with folks I don’t know. Hopefully this is a continuing trend and not a blip on what has been a pretty silent hobby to this point.

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Forehead Meets Desk

So I am joined into an IM session by my scrum master with one of our special needs developers. He [the special needs guy] cannot check out code from the repository. Ostensibly something I’d be in a position to help with as I run the access rules this iteration.

So we go through troubleshooting away. For twenty minutes. I cannot reproduce his problem even using his authentication credentials. We’re at the part where I ask him to use the command line to do his checkout—and if you knew this special needs person, you’d know I’m asking quite a bit here.

Just then, and I shit you not this is 20 minutes into the troubleshooting I get this on IM:

special needs guy [4:52 PM]:
the OK button is now enabled. Seems pretty wierd but it stays dithered unless you enter something into the checkout directory – using the browse button to place a path there does not enable it

special needs guy [4:53 PM]:
I am good to go now