All-nighter

Lots of problems today, in fact the whole week, so here I am after knock-off time on a Friday evening stuck at the office, lucky me, running a job to load up data so I can give it to the users for testing. Oh joy.

Finally get the job started at 7pm. It runs. Actually a better description would be it crawls. After crawling for a couple of hours, and based on the number of records in integration, I estimate it will finish at 11:30, so I head off home on the train to spend a couple of hours with the family.

Get back just before midnight and its still going. Of course. Check its progress every 10 minutes. Its gone past the number where I'd should have finished. It finally hits me that its just going to keep running forever, just to torture me.

Listening to loud music. The office is completely deserted. Start singing. Get a bit crazy. Start dancing. Wander around all over the floor, find someone's candy jar, leave a quarter for a mini snickers bar.

Feel like passing out around 2ish, so lie down and power nap for 30 minutes. Up again, job keeps on going, UAT is a wet towel. Eventually ends after 4 and I do the extract and send it out and leave at 5am.

So looking forward to my nice warm bed. Walk to the car park and stare in disbelief. The car park is closed. My car is locked behind mesh doors. It doesn't open till 8am. OMG.

Shuffle around Stamford for 3 hours, half asleep. Eat breakfast at Curleys, a 24 hour joint, not exactly classy, but by that stage I don't notice. Finally get home 24 hours after I started work the previous morning. Curl up in bed exhausted.

zzzzzzzzzzz

Road Trip

Professor Yeardon of the Rhode Island School of Design invites me to come and meet with his students in the spring, to discuss with them my little nanoDiamond project. We expect they will have lots of interesting and creative ideas on possible applications.

Never been to Rhode Island before, so should be an interesting visit. I'm excited! :)

Teensy Weensy Building Stuff

Lucky me, my site gets a mention on Nanoarchitecture.net, a site focusing on the architectural implications of nanotechnology.

That cat has claws

Friday night I installed Leopard, the new version of Mac OS X. Today my son gets on the machine and plays World of Warcraft for a couple of hours. He's just about to start another quest, when a disembodied voice suddenly says, in a pleasant voice, "You will be logged off in 15 minutes."

Jake nearly fell off his chair.

Parental controls - at last!