Every Five Minutes

"What's wrong with you? What you screamin' for? Every 5 minutes there's somethin', a bomb or somethin'. I'm leavin'. bzzzz."

I leave it up you, gentle readers, to decide whether I'm re-watching this:

...or whether I'm throwing out that quote as a comment on my current work environment.

Ghost Pumpkins

A conversation from our dinner table last night:

Secondborn: "When we were at Firstborn's writing place I looked out the window and there was a place with orange pumpkins and white pumpkins."

Beautiful Wife: {explaining} "They had ghost pumpkins as well as regular pumpkins."

Firstborn: "I wonder what happens if you make pumpkin pie with ghost pumpkins..."

Me: "You get ghost pumpkin pie, and it goes right through you."

This... this is what my children have to live with...

Music: History Is Made By Stupid People

A well-known fact among historians, but often lost on the general population:

Not feeling well...

...woke up sick at about 2:00 a.m. I'm only just now getting back on track. Could be allergies, something I ate, or both; not sure.

I hate September.

I'd die, but it would be fun...

Am I the only one who wants to try this? I mean, not even competitively, it just looks like a bit of a playground for silly grownups who haven't quite adjusted to the fact their bodies are over forty.

Junk Head

Nothing for today, so here's a movie.

Database Updates for Dummies

Database Updates for Dummies:

1. Run the Updater.
2. Read the error message.
3. Consult the documentation.
4. Realize there is no such error message in the documentation.
5. Read the error message again.
6. Consult Google.
7. Find instructions for how to do the thing that the error message says you need to do.
8. Do something spectacularly ill-advised: follow those instructions.
9. Re-run the Updater.
10. Watch the update complete successfully.
11. Promise yourself a stiff drink after work.

Go ahead. Ask me how yesterday went...