My guess is that car was stolen, given that it was in neutral, the button on the gear shift was broken, the doors were unlocked, and it had an open ignition. Security was putting a boot on it as I left, but it was gone the next morning too. Cops probably came and got it. The dent in my car was gone by the next morning when I went to work, so at least I don't have to deal with it.

I think this is the calmest school startup we've had since I've been at Bethel. Seriously, none of my stuff has really broken. The biggest issue we've seen is some switches flaking out, and Doug and Brent and I fixed that at least in the short term with not much work (we just effectively rebooted the network). Things started looping and confusing each other since buffers filled up and things started looping. That's fixed now though, at least on the network. There's still the maximum packet size at north village, but that's just helping them get their exercise since they have to either know what they're doing or go to the main campus. Other than that, I managed to eliminate one email list server so far - only two more to go. I also wrote a bounce handler to deal with bouncing emails for a lot of things, so none of the bounces for lists get to me now. The Help Desk probably will notice that they're not getting bounces for Incidents anymore soon too.

Last night was movie night with Butterfly Effect. Way too many of you didn't show up. Claim bad scheduling or whatever, but I didn't pick the day. And Doug even showed up. It was definitely a good movie. It was guys against girls on which ending was better (we watched both). Doug and Ross and I liked the director's cut, while Meghan and Steph and Lindsey liked the theatrical version. I wonder if that's trend holds (Hint: notice the "Add Comment" link below)? The movie was definitely different than what I was expecting. It's not a scary movie at all, but it is designed to shock and surprise you (like everything flashes and you feel an impact shock). It's an interesting one to think about the ideas involved in it.

Today was interesting. Lunch involved going Ross and I going to my place to eat leftover pizza from movie night watch Mr. Rogers. There need to be more shows like that on TV. Then before I leave work today Curt Koehn stops by and we chat for quite a while. He says hi to all you Bethel people I work with since I'll probably forget to tell you in person. Then I finish off the night by fixing email lists as someone is trying to use them, followed by watching Episode 1 of Season 2 of Alias. I'd say it's a good day.