Bored at work on a Thursday

[annathepiper]

+0: Gakked from jesshartley, here is my list for the 'places I've lived' meme.

1969-1985: Louisville, KY
Spring/Summer 1985: Chattanooga, TN
Summer/Fall 1985: Nicholasville, KY
1986-June 1991: Lexington, KY
June 1991-August 2004: Seattle, WA
August 2004-Present: Kenmore, WA



+1: This week at work's been really slow. Mostly, due to several of my test servers getting hit by the Korgo worm, it's been about rebuilding all those boxes and getting them back onto the internal network. I've been doing some bug regression, but not much. Since we did the RC2 build over the weekend and we haven't had a build since, I don't really have anything to test right now. This may change some time today, though--I see we have another build in progress, finally.



+2: Mostly interesting to kathrynt, llachglin, and chipmunck (though possibly also to tinlail and lyricae, and anyone else who worked at Bothell Books), I ran into Chad on the way to work yesterday; it turns out he also takes the 545, though he seems to be usually on the one after the one I take, and he gets off farther down the route than I do. We had a nice chat at the bus stop downtown, though.



+3: It's actually been cold this week, cold enough that I've broken my scarf back out and I have to wear my gloves on the way in to work. There's been frost every morning this week so far, and I almost slipped on the steps a couple of times. Cold. In February. If this keeps up I might think it's winter or something.

It's also meant I've been drinking more hot chocolate to get warmed up when I get in to work. Mmm, hot chocolate. Hot chocolate and chocolate milk both have been tasting incredibly good lately; I don't know if it's the fat in the milk, or what. Or maybe I'm low on calcium. But I'm trying to be moderate with the chocolate-related milk products, anyway.



+4: I've been at 167 pounds the last couple of mornings, and this pleases me immensely. I'm pretty confident I'll make it down to 166 by the end of the month, and maybe even past. I seem to have tuned up my metabolism a bit by my recent treadmilling efforts, to be sure; I've been a lot more hungry more often, generally to the state of just feeling quite drained and needing refueling, but once or twice almost hungry enough for my stomach to rumble. This is an odd and amusing feeling. I haven't been this hungry in a while.

I don't know if my metabolism being geared up is related to this or not, but I've also been a lot more restless sleeping again, lately. I've been waking up even before the alarm's gone off, and this morning I was awake a good half hour before the alarm. Even without the cat yowling at me to come change her litter box and give her some water.



+5: I have a game called Jawbreaker on my iPaq. It's got a bunch of randomly generated colored spheres, and the object of the game is to click on groupings of the same color to clear them off the screen. Ideally, you want to do this in such a fashion as to make bigger and bigger groupings of the spheres that remain, as bigger groups mean more points. mamishka, solarbird, and spazzkat may recognize this as a variant of SameGame, the game I have on my laptop that is the same concept, only with cute little anime girl heads with various colors of hair.

I've been playing Jawbreaker, anyway, on the way to and from work just to kill time. And my new high score is over 3500. Go me.



-6: I guess there may be a small side effect to my having dropped my iPaq in the bath after all: my A key has been sticking. Not seriously, but enough that I have to give it a good press to actually make it give me a character when I'm typing. It happens often enough to be noticeable, but not quite often enough to be annoying. Sigh.