I'm glad I got up this morning.

Despite the coughing fit that followed my sitting upright. I got to see an absolutely gorgeous sunrise (still going on). It started out as a brilliant flush of bright orange in just one conrer of the sky, with the rest still dark, and has progressed to a flood of peach in the east, slowly fading to lavender and then to blue. The tree that stands to the left side of the window across the creek is an outline of black branches against the sky, a perfect tree silhouette on peach and periwinkle.

Some mornings, it's just worth it.

Woohoo!

Spent the morning not in class, because the system architect was teaching basic troubleshooting skills. I know those well, and a site needed to be updated. The update fixed everything it was supposed to (with one possible exception, which wasn't tested yet), it looked like. Cleaned up another issue for them, started a merge needed for some stuff tomorrow, and so on.

I'll finish the merge later. Right now, I'm printing out documentation, because in a little bit, I get to go over and teach the afternoon part of class. All the stuff that we threw over the fence, now comes back to haunt us, as do the pieces of system setup that the system architect can't cover - because they were done after he left and he's not familiar with them - or simply would be wasting his time to cover.

I had chicken noodle soup and garlic bread for lunch (I love our deli), I'm feeling pretty good, and in a brief while I shall be teaching. And my cough has eased off again, although it was a bear this morning.

I also passed two "bugs" to the training specialists as I believe they're user error. One of them, I'm very proud of myself for flashing on what it probably was, instead of just going off the client's diagnosis. (They reported the error as their diagnosis, instead of what was happening, but I think I know what happened. If not, I will make them take notes next time it happened. Fortunately, if it's what I think it is, we'll be able to see the evidence just by reviewing logged activity. (They claim a user is being "deleted". I'm betting they got locked out for password being wrong....)

Stiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitch!

Okay, okay, okay. So when I first saw Lilo and Stitch in theaters, I wasn't sure I'd like it. Neither was the person I trust most to balance my movie tastes against the bulk of my friends' tastes, where there's no guarantee of overlap. But I went in the right frame of mind and the right mood, and I loved it.

Scott's out gaming tonight. But when I came to the computer room to set up my laptop, there in the middle of its space was a copy of Lilo and Stitch on DVD with a green ribbon affixed to the shrink-wrap.

It probably says a lot about me that I literally bounced in place and called out "Lilo and Stitch! Stitch Stitch Stitch!" like a little child.

Scott is so very good to me. And he knows. He knew, and he got it for me, and I'm so happy!

And it's still shrink-wrapped. Because I'm scening, and vanishing to re-watch a movie or play with features in mid-scene would be rude. But I think I'll spend some time on it this weekend!