January 26, 2009: Day of Lost Video Games

Well, my short, one day weekend is over.  Time to get back to work. My day started incredibly early this morning when I was paged out at five thirty.  To make things worse I had decided to stay up until one in the morning last night playing Fable: The Lost Chapters after Dominica had gone …

January 25, 2009: Relaxing Video Game Sunday

Today is my one day off for the week and the plan is to do nothing but relax.  I have really been looking forward to today. The whole family slept in really late this morning.  When we finally got up and headed on down to the living room our first order of business for the …

January 24, 2009: Jenn and Angelo Come to Visit

I was really not ready to get up this morning when the alarm rang at a quarter till seven, but I knew that the deployments this morning were high priority so I got down to the basement and got to work.  Oreo came down to the basement pretty quickly so that he could sleep on …

January 23, 2009: Another Busy Friday

Another early, cold, exhausted morning.  I can’t wait until Sunday when I actually get to sleep in a little bit.  Although, of course, the joke around the office is that the production data center will go down on Saturday as developer and contingency have gone down the last two weekends like clockwork.  If so, no …

January 22, 2009: Back to Warren Today

I was really exhausted this morning when I pulled myself out of bed.  Alternating shifts are hard to handle.  I would prefer always being on one shift or another.  Work started today at six thirty in the morning.  The basement is very cold all day long but first thing in the morning it is positively …