Sun Run Results

Well, I survived my first running sunrun. Last night I went over to Geri and Robs for the pre-race festivities (bbq and hockey game on the tube) and crashed in their spare bedroom to avoid the “oh god it’s 6am and raining and I don’t want to drive into vancouver” syndrome. Having people around you […]

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A Better Day and Pictures

As promised, yesterday was a much better day. Me and JimFromWork did some awsome pair programming that resulted in some rather major design flaws being fixed (or rather, worked around), the laundry got done, the aformentioned bug got fixed (a permission issue on the upload directory), and much other goodness. Also watched K-PAX as well.

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Goodbye Crappy Little Monitor

My last spare monitor appears to have died. I’m trying to work on this spare box I brought home to help a guy out with and at some point it just stopped showing anything on the screen. It still knows when it’s plugged into a computer or not (light goes from amber to green) and

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I am a Whole Man Again

I am whole again! My car is back. It’s clutch problems have all been fixed. It’s leaky somethingorother seal has been fixed. I can hit the gas and actually feel the car move instead of the engine just revving up. I am happy. I am also poor. Good thing the work invoice payment came in

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Starting to Hate Things Again

I can’t wait until I don’t have to do all of this anymore. I have had an incrediably frustrating night, and it’s only the last couple of hours. First a nice relaxing time watching TV, then watched the Canucks get their asses kicked. Great. Then realize I promised to send some stuff off to the

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Squash and Cars

So what exactly is the protocol when you hit your boss in the face with a squash ball from a hard shot? Had a great game of squash last night with silverstr and the boss (aside from the above mentioned minor mistake). We had a round robin type setup to we managed to mix it

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Clutch Problems

MutterMutter The last while my clutch has been slipping. Last week I finally got fed up and scheduled my beast in for a repair (lots of $, but if it means I’ll be able to drive properly again….). Yesterday when we went out to buy a new frying pan I noticed that the travel of

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