So far …

So far, today has been better than yesterday.

Yesterday suffered from three major problems:

(1) I was under the influence of “the cold that will not die”. This slow, lingering set of mild symptoms is annoying. I request that the germs either knock me on my ass or go away. I skipped karate class due to the lack of energy.

(2) My new habit of obtaining 20 ounces of coffee every morning backfired. I spilled coffee into my keyboard. Most of the mess has been cleaned up, but my ENTER key is still a bit sticky.

(3) I spent an hour debugging the stupidest code bug yesterday … the perl bug that wasn’t really a perl bug. My intranet server runs an automated script to check for recently uploaded documents and print the list on the main page. It worked on Friday after I moved the server to a new computer, but wasn’t working Monday morning. The script would run but never exit. After trying to use the completely useless perl debugger I found the problem. I had mistakenly placed a soft link to one of the directories inside the directory (instead of in a user’s home directory). So the script would parse the directory, enter the sub-directory (which is actually the same directory), enter the sub-directory (which is actually the same directory) … yadda, yadda, yadda. Stupid infinite loops.

Today is going much better. I got some christmas shopping done over lunch. Tonight will be spent perparing food for the office pot-luck Thanksgiving lunch. It’s always to see how a multi-national company puts together an office lunch. Turkey, ham, tofu, curry chicken … it’s all good.