Some days!

[kyrielle]

I meant to help with the deck - my parents came over, and my dad (pheon) sealed the deck while mom hung out inside with us. (Thanks, Dad! For the help, and the tips for next spring.)

Alas, I had two after-hours calls by the time they showed up - they both arrived together, and neither is resolved yet. I did eventually stop working on them when I hit a wall on each (very early in one, where the client resolved the immediate symptom, then told us - makes it a wee bit hard to investigate, since the evidence vanishes). R. just called me back with information on the one that had evidence, and I did the wrong thing (not harmful, just useless), so it may not be so hard to solve as I'd thought.

But boy am I embarrassed. I'm also off to connect in to both sites, to fix the one (I hope!) and see if there's anything interesting at the other (it's supposed to happen often enough to be worth tracking).

I had time for a very enjoable evening in between giving up on the last (around four) and now - I got to roleplay a character I dearly love. I got to hang out with friends, and chatter. I vegged around the web, and I finished reading The Perilous Gard (thanks for the recommendation, utsuri!).

So I can't say it was an awful day, but a lot less of it was mine than I'd hoped, and I wasn't as good a hostess as I'd wanted to be for my parents. Bah.

Comments

[the_rck]

The Perilous Gard is great fun! I read it first in middle school and then searched for a copy to add to my own library.

Have you read the author's other book, The Sherwood Ring? It's good too, a kind of a ghost story and romance.

[kyrielle]

No - I saw it, but didn't pick it up then.