Nothing of consequence
Mar. 1st, 2005 09:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiper+/-0: I'm a bit more functional today. On the plus side, got five hours of sleep last night--after double-dosing the Melatonex. On the minus side, I only got FIVE hours of sleep, even after double-dosing the Melatonex. It was really annoying, too. Went to bed around a quarter after ten in the hopes that if I dropped off I'd actually get nine or ten hours. And I did drop off... but I woke up around a quarter after three. Nothing seemed to provoke it; there wasn't a whisper out of Polly last night. Instead, without fanfare or preamble, I was suddenly AWAKE. And I remained such until the alarm clock went off at seven, though I lay still the whole time and let my thoughts try to wander in the hopes of dropping back to sleep.
-1: Lost my very promising Rogue in Nethack last night due to a fall onto poisoned spikes in a pit. This was extra special vexing as I'd found a wand of wishing on Level 4 and had gotten said Rogue outfitted very well indeed, and had just wiped out every hostile monster in Fort Ludios. It's quite ignominous to die while wandering around picking up gold. The lesson to be learned here, my children: get poison resistance early.
+2: The weather has reverted to cool, gray, and a little rainy. This is a Good Thing, not only because we desperately need the bolstering of our local water supply, but also because I have a small wondering whether I've been physically out of sorts due to weird weather. I have nothing on which to found this suspicion, but it's there nonetheless.
-3: My weight's back up to 168. Grr. It's been there for the last couple of mornings now.
+/-4: Reading The Devil's Highway by Hannah March. Not done with it yet, but while I am finding the story and its hero engaging, I am also finding the typos liberally sprinkled through the text quite distracting: things such as missing punctuation, improperly capitalized letters, and at least one occurrence of the dreaded "but it passed spellcheck" problem--the word "way" showing up in dialogue where "why" was clearly the needed word. Knowing what I know now about how the publishing industry works, I am not at all certain whether to blame these errors on the author or on a slipshod copyediting job.
-5: Some of my test servers have been repeatedly dying, shutting down due to 'thermal events'. Whatever that means. I presume it has to do with some component or other in the system overheating and crapping out as a result. I'm told that these particular Dells are chronically prone to this kind of problem. Whatever causes it, it's annoying--this particular cluster of machines serves as my primary cluster for running my daily build verification tests. Sigh.
-1: Lost my very promising Rogue in Nethack last night due to a fall onto poisoned spikes in a pit. This was extra special vexing as I'd found a wand of wishing on Level 4 and had gotten said Rogue outfitted very well indeed, and had just wiped out every hostile monster in Fort Ludios. It's quite ignominous to die while wandering around picking up gold. The lesson to be learned here, my children: get poison resistance early.
+2: The weather has reverted to cool, gray, and a little rainy. This is a Good Thing, not only because we desperately need the bolstering of our local water supply, but also because I have a small wondering whether I've been physically out of sorts due to weird weather. I have nothing on which to found this suspicion, but it's there nonetheless.
-3: My weight's back up to 168. Grr. It's been there for the last couple of mornings now.
+/-4: Reading The Devil's Highway by Hannah March. Not done with it yet, but while I am finding the story and its hero engaging, I am also finding the typos liberally sprinkled through the text quite distracting: things such as missing punctuation, improperly capitalized letters, and at least one occurrence of the dreaded "but it passed spellcheck" problem--the word "way" showing up in dialogue where "why" was clearly the needed word. Knowing what I know now about how the publishing industry works, I am not at all certain whether to blame these errors on the author or on a slipshod copyediting job.
-5: Some of my test servers have been repeatedly dying, shutting down due to 'thermal events'. Whatever that means. I presume it has to do with some component or other in the system overheating and crapping out as a result. I'm told that these particular Dells are chronically prone to this kind of problem. Whatever causes it, it's annoying--this particular cluster of machines serves as my primary cluster for running my daily build verification tests. Sigh.
