/plays Jaws theme
But it do look nice - just relax and do nothing.
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There are sharks here. Someone caught one not long ago. But Iām not worried. Only swimming in the morning and only for a minute. Too cold for much more. But it sure wakes me up!
Got my blog linked by not one but two major SQL Server DBA newsletters in the past 4 days.
After the second one, one of my predecessors texted my colleague and said āhey, whatās the other DBAās name there? I think he got linked this morningā followed by ālearn everything you can from him.ā
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Yesterday actually. New job gave me an office, not a cube.
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Goose the Cat has her own official Captain Marvel poster. And, apparently, way more merch than poor Hawkeye, which makes me a bit sad.
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Not Always Right seemed to be experimenting with clickbait-like titles a few weeks ago. Didnāt last long, thankfully.
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Patriot to the Super Bowl!
I know a lot of people disliked the team, coach and ownership but you really have to give them their due respect. To be that good for that long is something not seen in recent years in the NFL.
Should be a closely contested Super Bowl.
Go Pats!
Ice skating with the boys. Yes itās 930p on a Friday after working a 12hr shift. But manā¦ Ice skating. Canāt beat it.
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It was our 5th annual Kilt Skate today. Not a bad day for it: -11C.
https://www.kiltskate.com/new-events-2/
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Sounds like we are going back tomorrow. 
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And a wee bit scared, as I now have to represent the club at the area levelā¦
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Using disk2VHD to make an image of the PC we use to control our alarm panel with.
Just in case its HDD goes b0rk b0rk b0rk
Smart idea. Does it also requires some sort of weird serial card not made since 1985? That seems to be distressingly common.
I became aware this week of an insurgency in my old office to bring me back. Apparently, leadership is thinking about caving.
I didnāt leave on the very best of terms four years ago, but the idea that some of the same people who were very annoyed with me are now trying to force them to bring me back isā¦ immensely ego gratifying.
Itās not been an unproductive exile (teaching and training dev), but it would be nice to do my real job again.
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Fortunately no weird hardware, just plain off-the-shelf stuff.
Which means if I can get USB passthrough to work, then I can get rid of one more PC in the server room.
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I ordered a new soldering station. Itās not super fancy, but should be substantially better than what I had (a wood/leather burning tool that had a soldering tip).
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Patriots Win!!!
Barforama.
We didnāt miss our shot! Took the kids to see Hamilton last night and they loved it! I knew I would like it but Iām so glad they did too. Hopefully I can get them to the theater more often!
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First big snowstorm that I can remember in a very long time. Not the usual āhereās just enough snow to make everyone think the worldās coming to an endā, but snow you can make snowballs with and piling up along houses and fences.
Looking out at my back yard at 10 pm last night and seeing for the first time how lit up everything was from the nearby street light reflecting off the blanket of white.
Watching a crow balancing on a branch just thick enough to bear its weight while it gets into the tube-shaped bird feeder. Of course, it was probably crows that broke the plastic in the trough bird feeder, so I have to repair that.