Quiet Thursday morning
May. 5th, 2005 09:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiper+0: My expected duties at work keep shifting around. It seems as if I'll still be doing performance testing for a while--though we've got a new guy due to step into the shoes vacated by Glen, we've had confirmed. Looks like he's going to be rewriting the whole performance test system from the ground up, and I get to be the one actually running the tests. Not as cool as doing it myself, but I can live with this. It also looks like I'll be backup chick for a couple other folks on the team, so I need to be looking over their shoulders to keep apprised of what they're doing--in case I have to step into their shoes on random days and fill in for them. So for the time being, it looks like I get to be 'do whatever's needed' chick on the team. I almost miss SP1 in a way, as it meant I had a regular set of daily duties to run, but I also like the variety of having different things to do. But I'll have to see if I can work out with my lead some sort of regular schedule for running perf stuff.
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spazzkat has decided that perfs are small fuzzy things rather like the critter in Dark Crystal, Fizzgig. I could say something about this making me a low-down, stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking perf herder, but I do at least TRY not to look scruffy. ;)
+/-1: Weather's been... odd, lately. Cool and damp in the mornings, which has meant I still need my coat on the way to the bus stop, but warm in the afternoons, which has meant I've had to take the coat off. Things should stabilize in another few weeks, at which point I'll only need a sweater or sweatshirt; I look forward to that.
+2: Now that it is well and thoroughly May, the Street Fair and Folklife should be coming up. YAY! It will be weird going to the Street Fair this year as it's the first year we haven't lived in the U-district, but perhapssolarbird and I will bike down there or something, which would be fun. And hopefully this year I won't actually be ill during Folklife, so I'll be able to see more of what's going on.
+3: I finished reading the second Henry Morton book, The Emperor's Assassin. Pretty good--and I'm intrigued by Henry's background coming a'looking for him. I wonder if we'll see more of these books. It was very strange, too, reading about a story to stop a plot to assassinate Napoleon--and the scenes where he was being guarded on board a British ship but not allowed to set foot on British soil. The story was set not long after Waterloo, and part of the plot involved all the British furor about what exactly to do with the bugger. And British tourists kept coming out to actually look at the boat he was kept on. This makes me wonder whether things like this actually happened in Britain; perhaps I should look that up. In the meantime, I was intrigued as well to see in the "about the author" bit in the back that 'T.F. Banks' is actually a pseudonym for a couple of authors who are collaborating on this series, and I recognized one of the names: Sean Russell. I wonder if he's the same guy who wrote some of the fantasy novels I have on my shelves at home.
+4: Watching Lost in Space on DVD withrisu and Dara continues to be amusing. Last night's episode: "Welcome Stranger". Chock full of plot holes, such as why Earth spaceships circa 1982 apparently have the capability to starhop with ease, yet the Jupiter 2, which we are to believe launched in 1997, does not? Also, one would think that it might have occurred to the Robinsons that if this guy Hapgood could in fact navigate his way back to Earth, that instead of just trying to foist the kids onto him (and did they even have appropriate gear for Will and Penny? That ship didn't have internal life support, it looked like!), they might have, like, y'know, ASKED HIM HOW TO GET HOME THEMSELVES.
Tuesday and Wednesday miles: 2.0
Miles out of Hobbiton: 99.16
Miles to Rivendell: 358.84
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spazzkat has decided that perfs are small fuzzy things rather like the critter in Dark Crystal, Fizzgig. I could say something about this making me a low-down, stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking perf herder, but I do at least TRY not to look scruffy. ;)+/-1: Weather's been... odd, lately. Cool and damp in the mornings, which has meant I still need my coat on the way to the bus stop, but warm in the afternoons, which has meant I've had to take the coat off. Things should stabilize in another few weeks, at which point I'll only need a sweater or sweatshirt; I look forward to that.
+2: Now that it is well and thoroughly May, the Street Fair and Folklife should be coming up. YAY! It will be weird going to the Street Fair this year as it's the first year we haven't lived in the U-district, but perhaps
solarbird and I will bike down there or something, which would be fun. And hopefully this year I won't actually be ill during Folklife, so I'll be able to see more of what's going on.+3: I finished reading the second Henry Morton book, The Emperor's Assassin. Pretty good--and I'm intrigued by Henry's background coming a'looking for him. I wonder if we'll see more of these books. It was very strange, too, reading about a story to stop a plot to assassinate Napoleon--and the scenes where he was being guarded on board a British ship but not allowed to set foot on British soil. The story was set not long after Waterloo, and part of the plot involved all the British furor about what exactly to do with the bugger. And British tourists kept coming out to actually look at the boat he was kept on. This makes me wonder whether things like this actually happened in Britain; perhaps I should look that up. In the meantime, I was intrigued as well to see in the "about the author" bit in the back that 'T.F. Banks' is actually a pseudonym for a couple of authors who are collaborating on this series, and I recognized one of the names: Sean Russell. I wonder if he's the same guy who wrote some of the fantasy novels I have on my shelves at home.
+4: Watching Lost in Space on DVD with
risu and Dara continues to be amusing. Last night's episode: "Welcome Stranger". Chock full of plot holes, such as why Earth spaceships circa 1982 apparently have the capability to starhop with ease, yet the Jupiter 2, which we are to believe launched in 1997, does not? Also, one would think that it might have occurred to the Robinsons that if this guy Hapgood could in fact navigate his way back to Earth, that instead of just trying to foist the kids onto him (and did they even have appropriate gear for Will and Penny? That ship didn't have internal life support, it looked like!), they might have, like, y'know, ASKED HIM HOW TO GET HOME THEMSELVES.Tuesday and Wednesday miles: 2.0
Miles out of Hobbiton: 99.16
Miles to Rivendell: 358.84