I’m reaching for the computer around a loudly purring cat, who has found that the best way to get a hug in the morning is to sit directly in front of the laptop. Irritating, but very cute. It’s hard to be angry at something that’s just expressing affection. <\/p>\n
Spent yesterday fighting with the support ticket lines at work. I lost, meaning that the day ended with more support tix that were there in the morning. I know that in absolute terms, it was necessary … but I ended the day feeling “well THAT was useful” [stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp].<\/p>\n
Made “Tea steamed fish” for dinner. I’ve been trying to replicate this meal that I had in Beijing. The English wasn’t so great, so the best I got was that it was “tea steamed fish.” I looked on the internet, and found a couple of recipes. The first involved marinating the fish (cod) in tea. The second involved making a teabag out of cheesecloth and steaming through<\/em> it. The fish was tasty, but needed something more. <\/p>\n Been fighting with XSan, which is Apple’s SAN (Storage Area Network) software. It’s a filesystem thing: Supposedly you just plug in your hardware (of a particular size and shape) and XSan takes care of turning it into a nice high performance file server. Unfortunately, it appears that the failure mode of XSan is to reboot all the computers involved … and that the default suggestion to fix this is to throw hardware at the problem. It does, shall we say, *not* degrade gracefully. <\/p>\n Testing for another stripe on the brown belt at noon today. Wish me luck. <\/p>\n — UPDATE — Passed the test. Another band of electrical tape has been applied to my belt. Only two small injuries to show for it. Sensei is lettin’ me off easy.<\/p>\n Okay, back to the frickity-frack support tickets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m reaching for the computer around a loudly purring cat, who has found that the best way to get a hug in the morning is to sit directly in front of the laptop. Irritating, but very cute. It’s hard to be angry at something that’s just expressing affection. <\/p>\n