Gee, windstorms.

Not, of course, that Oregon ever has windstorms. Nahhhh. Can't be.

The power went out last night. Not long; everything on a UPS or battery (namely, all the computers, even my desktop which has about 15 minutes worth of power from that UPS at most) came through it fine, still on, untouched. The radio reset, the microwave would have if we'd bothered to put its clock back after the last power outage (a couple weeks ago!), and so did the clock radio.

Scott was out late gaming (he has this week off); he got back after the outage, reset the clock, reset the alarm, turned it on. Bless him. It didn't help - it didn't go off, for reasons known only to alarm clocks. But bless him anyway, he tried.

So I got up at 15 minutes to when I meant to be at work. Decided it was a lost cause, got here only a half hour later than I intended.

It's windy out there. Hair whips about. Trees lash. The car vibrates as you drive down the highway.

I'm glad it's not raining. I'm pretty sure umbrellas would not stay in hand long.

Umm, but...but....

My boss says he has no login on the main corporate domain. The login to the timesheet machine is the login on the main corporate domain. As his name is not on the "unfiled timesheet" list each week, and as NO ONE can access your timesheet to fill it in UNLESS you have a login, methinks he is confused.

And I'm moving defines around. It would have to be the blasted list that touches 6-7 files, wouldn't it? *groans* This is a long-overdue set of changes, though, and well worth having.

I wonder whether the deli is open today, or I'm having my frozen whatnot.

Update: The deli was open. I got chicken rice soup. It's normally yummy, but this time they'd gone homemade. The girl was right, it needed a little salt, but it needed degreasing even worse. I dipped a cracker in it and even THAT was grossly greasy. Most of the soup went straight to the trash. The crackers and the slice of poppyseed bread I got were good, though.

Hehehe.

Fun stuff. My boss dropped into my office to discuss some ugly (but very cool) code being added. It'll make the system way more flexible and useful. Which is to say it's being a pain in the backside to implement. My boss was making it more complex by figuring out how to do automatic transfers of control. I asked how often they'd be dispatching each other's units anyway, and suggested it just demand the operator perform the transfer themselves - because that way, if the subsequent command fails, the operator will KNOW the units were transferred. *nods*

Meanwhile, Y. came in with the yellow lab, and said, "Better protect your trashcan." I told him (cheerfully/humorous) that I didn't see why, if the dog ate my dental gum, it was his problem, after all, and wasn't he curious to see what the dental gum would do to the dog's digestion? (Despite his joking, he wouldn't have let the dog eat from my trash - and I know it. That dog in particular has a sensitive digestion and any treats or weirdness tends to cause digestive upset. Hence, if only in self-defense, he would keep the dog out of my garbage. Amazing how quickly he took the dog away after I indicated I wasn't going to help keep him out of the trash, though.... :)

I love having Windows XP.

Sadly, so far, I love it for:

1. Auto-playing CDs full of pictures with a built-in slideshow.
2. Built-in DVD support.
3. The fact that having it and having put the Windows LJ client on it and used the web site from it allows me to answer a number of support requests related to XP.

Yay, me. Two user reasons and one tech support reason. LOL.