Month: December 2004

The Spirit of Hanukkah

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I stepped out of my car into the drizzle after arriving home. Without being too hopeful, I wondered if I had gotten anything in the mail to make me smile. After trudging over to my mailbox and and reaching inside, I found nothing but an envelope from an unnamed company in Wilmington, Delaware. Another credit offer, undoubtedly. No, there was nothing in my mailbox to make me smile, so I trudged up the steps to my apartment.

To my surprise, there was a box sitting squarely on my welcome mat. As I approached, I could tell that the box was from Amazon.com. Thank you for one of my first presents for the holidays! I certainly smiled, and I’m sure I’ll do more of that while reading the book.

Four Martinis in One Half Hour

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Thanks to the girl in my group in the office who came back to work this evening after her class a little bit tipsy. By a little bit tipsy, I mean a bit drunk. By a bit drunk, I mean completely wasted and vomitastic. By vomitastic, I think you can guess what I mean, since I made that word up.

It turns out she had a gaggle of martinis after class so that she would be mentally prepared for coming back to work and for writing a paper due for her class by midnight. At least she had the courtesy to finish those martinis in less than a half hour to get back to work quickly. She also didn’t eat anything all day. After getting sick, she disappeared. Luckilly, we found her downstairs in the mall attached to our building, crying. Her boyfriend showed up to take her home, and I suppose that’s a good thing.

I imagine she’s going to be a little embarassed when (or if) she shows up tomorrow.

Uh-Oh

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Message from DreamHost, my web server hosting company:

At approximately 4:30 PM PST, a database server had a catastrophic
hardware failure. We are working to stabilize this server. Databases on
this machine (nobnin) will be down at least until 5:30 PM PST.

Thank you for your patience.

That doesn’t sound good. It brought down my Mix CD Exchange. I hope it wasn’t do to my “interesting” programming techniques. I really don’t like the sound of “catastrophic hardware failure.” At least I got a new pair of black shoes.

Santa-Con and Bits

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A coworker of mine suggested I participate in the SantaCon this weekend.

I never fell asleep last night. That’s not really healthy, but sometimes, I just can’t sleep. I think I’m going to bed very, very, vewy soon.

Two nights ago — the last night I slept — I had a disturbing dream about having disappointed someone. I hate disappointing people.

Having new bedsheets is nice. Having new clothes is also nice. Knowing that I’ll be receiving via UPS a new pair of shoes tomorrow to replace my older black ones that have started to fall apart is nice as well.