It's 5 AM and I'm up, up, up

$howboat has a code prop today. I slept like ass like I always do when I have to get up early (I worry about oversleeping, and when I do sleep I dream about that and other things going wrong), missing out on my last 20 minutes of precious sleep. And I don't have any yogurt to eat right now so I'm not sure what I'm going to do about food. I actually woke up hungry, which I haven't been doing at all unless I've been sleeping in until 11.

Hmm. Looks like the buses come by so irregularly at this time of the night that I've got a choice of getting one in ten minutes or getting one in thirty. Don't think I can get dressed quite quickly enough to catch the next one but I guess I'll try ...

It's a beautiful prop morning

It was lovely coming in this morning: cool and dark but not too cold, the air moist, and for some reason lots and lots of birds singing in the park near my work. It felt like a spring morning instead of deep in the heart of mid-winter. It felt homey and normal and that perfect surreal you get going in way, way too early to work - my whole life in QA, years repeating themselves, taking me all the way back to The Olde Days of the dot-com boom and all of those nice fantasies about retiring as millionaires after the IPO. I wonder if any of those Microsoft retirees are former testers? I scavenged some stuff for the bathroom from a box on the sidewalk and headed into work carrying it with me.

Nice article in the New York Times about the need to "restrain the imperial presidency:" The Democratic majority in Congress has a moral responsibility to address all these issues: fixing the profound flaws in the military tribunals act, restoring the rule of law over Mr. Bush’s rogue intelligence operations and restoring the balance of powers between Congress and the executive branch. So far, key Democrats, including Mr. Leahy and Senator Richard Durbin of Illinois, chairman of a new subcommittee on human rights, have said these issues are high priorities for them. Let's hope so. I realized I'm still afraid to send letter to Republicans criticizing them for fear of being placed on a watch list and having that make it impossible for me to travel easily.

Testing ahoy

Released 1/2 hour early. Busy now.

My first prop at $howboat

Well, I've signed off. That was a lot of work in a fairly short time - kind of fun, though. We have some tests to run once we're unsplashed and doubtlessly issues will occur during the day, but otherwise we're ready to go! And it must be said this was a MUCH less painful thing than getting new code out at Tripadelic.

She can dance, she can sing

Right, so who in LJ land has a copy of the soundtrack to Starlight Express and can give it to me, say via email? I want to be able to sing those silly songs to myself while I'm cleaning the house. Ditto The Point. I don't have my vinyl anymore and that is not extant in my digital music collection. Help?

I'm also thinking about going Ceili (ceilidh?) dancing on Friday the 19th - anyone else interested?