Wow, it's been a while. Last week went pretty decent. More talk of email viruses and ways to avoid them. There was a big outage which I heard a lot about, but thankfuly didn't really have any effect on me. Thursday morning was a bit busy. I spent the entire morning responding to emails, until I finally took a break for lunch. Lunch was Village Wok, which was really good. Thankfully the afternoon slowed down a bit and I got to do other things, although I did manage to create a bit of an upset by reminding everyone of a policy we had. That night we had a little incident with the email server which I discovered when an email hit my cell phone on my way home. Sometimes typos can be really bad. I managed to figure out that it was still happening about an hour later (effects were sorta rippling through slowly), and shut down the appropriate servers to clean out the queues. Thankfully it stayed sorta isolated so all the services that people see were unaffected. Friday started off by seeing snow everywhere. I took some pictures at home, as well as on the way into work. Nothing too exciting, but maybe I'll post some of them anyways. Work was miscellaneous stuff, followed by discovery that verizon decided to drop the msg.myvzw.com domain without telling anyone who was using it. Luckily vtext.com does the same thing, and we were able to just transition over. Weird though - I wonder if it'll come back. Friday night I took down all the Windows servers for maintenance. Went pretty well, think I squashed all the problems we had been seeing, at least for now. We'll see if any come back and deal with them then. Hopefully the loads will be more stable without AFP and they won't get confused again. Saturday I slept in a lot (like until afternoon) which was great since I had been so tired. I got up and did nothing for a while, followed by going over to Nick's place and calibrating his audio stuff. Got it all set up with reference level now, and it was great for demo stuff. The timing was important there because he was having a bunch of people over for food followed by Runaway Jury. Good movie, suspense was rather well done. After that most of the people went to play broomball, but Dave and I ditched and headed over to Ross' place to hang out with other people. After quite a bit of going through the options we watched Fletch. Chevy Chase movies have this unique humor to them which I think is great (as does everyone else who was there). After the movie was just chatting, as well as some people wrestling while the rest of us laughed and Dave dug himself deeper and deeper holes with his comments. Was a late night, but good. Sunday was Salem again, followed by just sitting around relaxing some more. Read more on photo stuff, followed by more. Talked to my dad for quite a while about what filters we had and which sizes, and which would be handy for both of us, and eventually selected a few. Also got a couple step up and step down rings since we're to three lens sizes now. Found my dad an overstock on a cross screen which fits his digital for $4, which was a nice find. All the filters I got won't come in handy right away, but hopefully will. I decided against color correction filters when I realized that since I'm shooting digitally and have manual white balance correction I can do that much cheaper with inverted color samples. Now I just need to stop by a paint store and put together a palette of appropriate samples. :) Hopefully the cheap Ultra II CF card I want will come back in stock within a couple days so I can order that without much markup for fast shipping. Other things of note, I'm still really liking the headset I bought a couple weeks back. I've used it a few hours this weekend, and it's great since even after an hour or so on the phone it still isn't uncomfortable, which is more than I can say about holding any phone. Now there's just the annoying heat problem of a phone in the pocket to deal with...