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Jul. 14th, 2001 08:48 amGalina.
I called my cell number yesterday in the early afternoon and Galina answered... from somewhere on the road between Ft. Worth and Amarillo. That would have pegged her arrival last night or this morning, between midnight and two. When I woke up, Galina wasn't here, which means (probably) she did the sensible thing and put up at a motel...maybe in Tucumcari. We had some weather move over us last night that came from the general direction of Santa Fe, and it was the kind of stuff that makes you wish you were doing anything but driving a car.
Fan problems with the VAIO (I'm going to have to bite the bullet and send it off to Sony, I guess) limit my online time. I was on long enough yesterday to download mail, which contained two short documents for translation.
One is due later today; the other, Monday morning.
Dinner yesterday was cooked by Shannon's mom, and it was "taco night." Great salsa and everything else. The only damper on the evening's festivities was the arrival of beer that had been in the store's cooler long enough for the glass to get cold, but not long enough for the beer to get cold. How sad that American mass-produced beer must be cold in order to be drinkable! Ah, well... they say suffering is good for the soul.
In between other things, I shall have to find out how to re-open bugs on Bugzilla, since I suspect my post of the other day really didn't grab anyone's attention. Getting 60 days worth of support isn't worth too much if you can't boot your system until someone may or may not get around to coming up with a fix. And based on my experience in the industry, a bug like this that might affect some really small number of people is not going to attract a lot of attention. The "do it yourself" approach might sound feasible, except that I'm already putting in 16-hour days on a routine basis.
I heard that Atlantis has docked to ISS. It's kind of strange to not be in Houston while an ISS Shuttle flight is in the air. I got an e-mail from a colleague who is in Houston, wondering what happened to me. I guess my wanting to remain in Colorado last week translated firmly into not going to Houston for this flight at all. Though it feels strange, it's not as though I miss it.
Cheers...
I called my cell number yesterday in the early afternoon and Galina answered... from somewhere on the road between Ft. Worth and Amarillo. That would have pegged her arrival last night or this morning, between midnight and two. When I woke up, Galina wasn't here, which means (probably) she did the sensible thing and put up at a motel...maybe in Tucumcari. We had some weather move over us last night that came from the general direction of Santa Fe, and it was the kind of stuff that makes you wish you were doing anything but driving a car.
Fan problems with the VAIO (I'm going to have to bite the bullet and send it off to Sony, I guess) limit my online time. I was on long enough yesterday to download mail, which contained two short documents for translation.
One is due later today; the other, Monday morning.
Dinner yesterday was cooked by Shannon's mom, and it was "taco night." Great salsa and everything else. The only damper on the evening's festivities was the arrival of beer that had been in the store's cooler long enough for the glass to get cold, but not long enough for the beer to get cold. How sad that American mass-produced beer must be cold in order to be drinkable! Ah, well... they say suffering is good for the soul.
In between other things, I shall have to find out how to re-open bugs on Bugzilla, since I suspect my post of the other day really didn't grab anyone's attention. Getting 60 days worth of support isn't worth too much if you can't boot your system until someone may or may not get around to coming up with a fix. And based on my experience in the industry, a bug like this that might affect some really small number of people is not going to attract a lot of attention. The "do it yourself" approach might sound feasible, except that I'm already putting in 16-hour days on a routine basis.
I heard that Atlantis has docked to ISS. It's kind of strange to not be in Houston while an ISS Shuttle flight is in the air. I got an e-mail from a colleague who is in Houston, wondering what happened to me. I guess my wanting to remain in Colorado last week translated firmly into not going to Houston for this flight at all. Though it feels strange, it's not as though I miss it.
Cheers...
