Entries this day: Today UPS Ultimate

Today

10:16pm CDT Thursday 28 September 2000

This morning at work I completed a few items from my email inbox and was just about to continue design on the Ritz project when I noticed Karla's energy was all wacked. I inquired and she basically said Dave needed support with his project (which was all wacked). I therefore spent many hours today helping fix some things with Dave's project. Basically there were some errors in the beginning that "snowballed" into bigger problems. I think they are all solved now.

I felt all smart and stuff and then we discovered that a different problem was due to a bug in my code. The bug has been propogated through 4 projects that all use the same code. They never showed up until Dave's project because the data covered its own butt. It only showed up when there were two errors in the data. (*) Error correcting data? Kinda, but not really.

10:55 pm

It took 30 minutes to recognize it was a bug, 20 minutes to recreate the error in some different code, 15 minutes to figure out why the error didn't manifest itself in other projects. 25 minutes to fix the error, test the new code and move it online.

(*) Wende just arrived with dinner from Taco Bell.

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UPS

11:01pm CDT Thursday 28 September 2000

Oh! I won the bid for a UPS from APCC for $95. Back UPS Pro 650 with retail price $299. Less than 1/2 price is a pretty sweet deal! (I'd say 1/3 price but had to pay tax and shipping.) Just got it via FedEx yesterday and hooked it up! We haven't had a power outage to really use it, but I'm ready for one!

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Ultimate

10:58pm CDT Thursday 28 September 2000

I played well at Ultimate tonight. Not my best game by any stretch, but certainly a lot of fun. I made one cool catch where I rolled from shoulder to hip, gaining several feet of ground in the process. One amazing, fast, low, left handed catch while running sideways across the endzone for a point. Very nice. One cool catch where I "milked" the disc for more distance by letting it literally go past me at chest level and catching it from behind.

A couple of good throws, but I don't remember specifics. It's bedtime.

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