Friday ShortStuff

Last night Lynn and I worked more on her pet sitting web site. I'm frankly embarrassed to be associated with it, but a promise is a promise. http://lotsoflovedogsitting.com for the strong of stomach and weak of taste. Look for the disgustingly blatant Kristian mouse-overs. Do NOT click on the icon with the revolving cross if you have any liquid within 10 yards of your mouth.

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Am wearing one of my Marks & Spencer briefs today. Friendly women who see me at Silicon may request a first-hand demonstration. farmount, I'll wear my lacy pink thong if you're hosting a party this year.

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The inkjet cleaner kit arrived last night, so this morning I pumped the dumpster-donated Epson CX6400 full of solution, and will see after work if it has done the trick.

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 It's my hiring manager's last day at work before he moves back to Toronto to start his own company. He has chosen Baba Neo for our going-away lunch, which is highly ironic because that's where I held my celebration dinner on being hired. I'm pretty sure it was he who ordered the 3 trays of breakfast pastries which I found in the break room this morning. Best flaky apple Danish I've had in eons. Edit:Nope, they were to celebrate someone else's birthday.

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It's probably going to be a very boring day at work. My Video-on-demand testing has been put on hold while another set of engineers with whom I share a computer test cluster push through their high-priority project. We sit in the same open work area, so I get to watch. Meanwhile I have the boring task of supervising IT as they install bits on three machines for that project. Supervise, in the same way NYC work crew supervisors supervise.
( Now, what did he mean by that )

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I expect to be at Silicon around 7 tonight, and for most of the weekend. Someone please make sure I don't have a Senior Moment and forget to attend lady_leandra and Chris Garcia's Sunday panel on SFSF. Chris is always a hoot, and Jean is one of those rare women who light up the room just by being there. It is sad that they scheduled the Browncoat Tea for the same time as one of iamradar's panels. I can spend some time at both, but she can't. Boo, hiss. Looks like several LJ friends are Guests and panelists this time. Catch me before I swoon. I think I see britgeekgrrl and kennita on the list too. Anyway, I'll try to be there for Meet The Guests. Debating which costume to wear. Maybe my Eastern European military outfit, if it still fits. I think Elvis may make an appearance this weekend, and possibly Colonel Sanders, or the fat old Thai hills tribes guy.

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Am missing Fleet Week, the Golden Gate Park Bluegrass festival, and the NorCal Peace Corps Assn. picnic this weekend. Will catch as much of the LoserBowl on the Doubletree poolside bar TV as I can stand. Used to be Raiders vs. 49ers was a quasi-championship game, this time it will probably be won by the team which scores the first safety. Would like to see the Eagles/Cowboys game, but it's blacked out here (LoserBowl is hogging that channel). Maybe it's on my HDTV station. Silicon will be over before that game is, so maybe there's hope.
 

Dead Quiet Silicon

Went for just long enough to buy a night badge (they closed up real registration at 6), which made me miss the meet the guests because night badges were only available at con ops on the 2nd floor, and the very very nice woman alone at the desk there needed to explain to everyone that all she could issue was night passes for $10, which we could swap  in the morning for a real badge for $35. The line was not long but the wait was (not her fault - blame the people in the ops room who where blocking traffic, not putting up signs which explained the situation, and not volunteering to be an extra pair of hands which there was plenty of room and opportunity for them to be.

I had dinner, was thinking of going to a couple of parties, but it was just so quiet there that I went home instead.

I don't know if I will go back. There just does not seem to be critical mass, and all the folks I saw that I know from LJ, wonderful though they are, I'm not really part of their world. I am at best a friend of a friend, mostly an acquaintance of a friend. I feel like I'm a nuisance.

Maybe I'll hop on CalTrain tomorrow and go to fleet week instead.