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Another week over.
Sep. 13th, 2008 12:01 amI had another good night at the bowling alley: 140, 195, 189. My average is now 171, which is about seven pins higher than where it was at the end of last season. I don't expect it to last, but with these new synthetic lanes, who knows...
My team took three out of four points for winning two games and beating the other team in total pins, so that's six points (out of a possible eight) so far. Pretty good!
Mario is pissed off, though - he still can't figure out how to throw his ball. He's tried all six, and he still can't consistently put the ball where he wants to. So far, he's blamed it on the synthetic lanes, the oil pattern, the amount of oil being used, and the fact that they apparently installed the new lanes on top of the old wood ones instead of removing the old ones first.
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h8torun, if you see this - one of our new teammates, Lindsey, showed up tonight in a Tinkerbell t-shirt. (I also sat across from a young woman in a Tinkerbell t-shirt on my way to work this morning... strange coincidence.)
Work has been dull the past few days. We implemented a new release yesterday, and everything seems to be working flawlessly* - and there were no outstanding bugs or urgent change requests to work on today. So I went back through our tracker and found some change requests that we hadn't gotten to which were posted a few months ago, and started working on the simpler ones. I didn't want to work on one of the more complicated ones because we're waiting for our client to tell us what's on next week's To Do list. But our client was apparently out golfing today... so I managed to get five of those old change requests done. Not bad for having to leave two hours early to get to the bowling alley. *grin*
* - except for the stuff that the people who work at our client's site have been doing. I don't think they're actually real programmers, judging by the quality of the code they've been writing. And they certainly can't write SQL to save their lives. Don't they test their changes before they just shove them into the live environment???
In other news, I've seen reports on a few friends' LJs that Joan Winston, who was part of the committee that ran the first Star Trek conventions in New York City in the early 1970s, and who co-wrote Star Trek Lives! and The Making Of The Trek Conventions, has passed away. Here's an article on Comicmix.com.
I'm a little aggravated about one thing - Wednesday night, I got home and started taking my rings and bracelets off, and my purple "Erase Hate" bracelet snapped. :( (That's the second time one of those bracelets has broken on me - my Outworlders one broke several months ago, again while I was taking it off.) It seems you can order them online (in quantities of three or six) from www.matthewshepard.org, but they only ship to U.S. addresses. Time for an email toennisdl, I suppose... after all, what's the use of having American friends who come up to Toronto regularly if you can't use their homes as shipping addresses? ;)
I'm still not feeling 100% - I woke up again last night to cough up some more internal organs - and I believe I'm getting together withtravellingone tomorrow afternoon, then going out with cuteteenboy tomorrow night (my Sunday meeting ought to be fun ;) ), so I'm staying in tonight. I'm getting dull in my old age...
My team took three out of four points for winning two games and beating the other team in total pins, so that's six points (out of a possible eight) so far. Pretty good!
Mario is pissed off, though - he still can't figure out how to throw his ball. He's tried all six, and he still can't consistently put the ball where he wants to. So far, he's blamed it on the synthetic lanes, the oil pattern, the amount of oil being used, and the fact that they apparently installed the new lanes on top of the old wood ones instead of removing the old ones first.
Hey,
h8torun, if you see this - one of our new teammates, Lindsey, showed up tonight in a Tinkerbell t-shirt. (I also sat across from a young woman in a Tinkerbell t-shirt on my way to work this morning... strange coincidence.)Work has been dull the past few days. We implemented a new release yesterday, and everything seems to be working flawlessly* - and there were no outstanding bugs or urgent change requests to work on today. So I went back through our tracker and found some change requests that we hadn't gotten to which were posted a few months ago, and started working on the simpler ones. I didn't want to work on one of the more complicated ones because we're waiting for our client to tell us what's on next week's To Do list. But our client was apparently out golfing today... so I managed to get five of those old change requests done. Not bad for having to leave two hours early to get to the bowling alley. *grin*
* - except for the stuff that the people who work at our client's site have been doing. I don't think they're actually real programmers, judging by the quality of the code they've been writing. And they certainly can't write SQL to save their lives. Don't they test their changes before they just shove them into the live environment???
In other news, I've seen reports on a few friends' LJs that Joan Winston, who was part of the committee that ran the first Star Trek conventions in New York City in the early 1970s, and who co-wrote Star Trek Lives! and The Making Of The Trek Conventions, has passed away. Here's an article on Comicmix.com.
I'm a little aggravated about one thing - Wednesday night, I got home and started taking my rings and bracelets off, and my purple "Erase Hate" bracelet snapped. :( (That's the second time one of those bracelets has broken on me - my Outworlders one broke several months ago, again while I was taking it off.) It seems you can order them online (in quantities of three or six) from www.matthewshepard.org, but they only ship to U.S. addresses. Time for an email to
ennisdl, I suppose... after all, what's the use of having American friends who come up to Toronto regularly if you can't use their homes as shipping addresses? ;)I'm still not feeling 100% - I woke up again last night to cough up some more internal organs - and I believe I'm getting together with
travellingone tomorrow afternoon, then going out with cuteteenboy tomorrow night (my Sunday meeting ought to be fun ;) ), so I'm staying in tonight. I'm getting dull in my old age...
