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At work, yay. It seems that most of our systems ran smoothly while I was gone, except for one auto-download system that hasn't been quite right since we re-targeted its installation location. I shall have to talk to the manufacturers thereof about that today, and then test some database installs on our remote site before arranging matters relating to an off-site disaster recovery test. And then get vacation details around the weekend of a certain con settled, and vacation time for a visit to SF and then the Pacific Northwest settled, but none of that until I have nailed down my workly obligations. I'm just glad things ran properly w hile I was gone. There might have been murder or trans-lake fugitiving to Canada or both if it had been otherwise.

Yes, I am doing horrible things to adjectives and gerunds alike. It's 8:53 AM and my gut is processing a bottle of yerba mate while my brain is going over status reports from the computers for the weekend. That sort of thing shows up somewhere.

Anyway, I have work to do today, obviously, but it's not nearly as nightmarish as I had anticipated, so we're all good. I'll do what I can about con info tonight, I think. Especially since I've got that photo from when I took a group of con-goers shooting at the archery range in Forest Park. That was great stuff.

Holy cow.

Or rather, the opposite of holy cow, considering...

Well, dammit, it's a cake. A cake made of meat. Like, a layer cake. For the sake of MANLY baking. This takes the Southern tradition of the groom's cake at a wedding to whole new levels.

Has anyone informed James Lileks?

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My sister caught me on IM two days ago, fresh returned from Millicon, and asked me how Deathly Hallows ended.

... and I thought the person who saw me reading HBP on the train two weeks after it came out, and asked who died, was jumping the gun. Yeesh.

(I told her I hadn't read it yet but that I'd heard 'happily ever after' figured into it, and left it at that. She wouldn't've got the joke if I'd told her that Rowling revealed that Hagrid was made of chocolate.)