View From the Bushes

I was up until 1 am working on the "project." It's the kids first day of school today, so I know the whole house was going to be up at 7, and I figured that six hours of sleep would be sufficient. Of course, work called at 5:30 am to tell me that the web server was done. Further investigation uncovered that it wasn't the web server that was having problems, but rather the firewall between the web server and the database server, so I told them to call someone else, but by that point I was awake, and so I decided to head into work.

We have a manager who's really... gung-ho... He shows up at around 6:00 every morning and leaves at around 6:00 every evening (and has, as I understand it, around a 45 minute commute). He generally ends each year with unused time off, most of which just goes away. If we were a huge company like IBM or something I could understand it, but we're much smaller and he's basically risen as high as he can go. It's not that I don't understand why he works so hard; it's rather I can't fathom why he didn't start a business at some point so he could work that hard for himself. Anyway the point of this long story is that on my way in I realized that I might have a chance to steal this manager's traditional parking spot, but no such luck. He was already at work when I arrived.

I don't know about you, but I've been following Katrina's progress with no small amount of interest. I guess at some point over the weekend Katrina's pressure dropped to 902 mb which is the fourth lowest pressure ever in the Atlantic basin. Obviously much of the interest comes in wondering how New Orleans will fare, given that most of the city is below sea level. After looking around for a while I found this news blog that seems to give some of the best information on what's happening.

So very tired
Ross