Seems that I have not much to say these days.
Spent a decent three-day-week in Baltimore, working for a genotyping lab. They’ve got a compute cluster that I built for them a while ago, and it’s been rockin’ at full capacity for some time. They added a bunch of servers and wanted some other changes. We paused the production queue, took it offline, performed a couple of experiments to find out which configuration actually works best with their apps, did the upgrade, and at about 4pm on Wed threw the switch and jobs flooded back onto the system. Everything was the same except that it’s about 4 times faster. Made me feel like I know what I’m doing.
On Monday I had dinner with my two siblings and their respective significant others. It was like a natural progression of Thanksgiving, from last weekend with friends to Baltimore with the sibs.
Hertz provided a shiny blue Mustang when I asked for “economy.” Apparently I’ve rented with them enough to get the “upgrade if we’ve got it” deal.
Last night we went to a friend’s huge house in JP for an extended friends and family dinner. There were at least 20 people there, not counting the three kids, two cats, and a dog. It was a good time. I highly recommend being around people on Thanksgiving.
Now, off to a budget meeting. I’m torn between celebrating Buy Nothing Day (aka Black Friday) and going out to get a 42 inch plasma screen TV for, like, pennies on the dollar.
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