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I need a device that I can wear on my shoulder. Not just any device, though: this device will have certain Babel Fish-like qualities, which will greatly improve the quality of my life. It will translate thoughts like “I just have to adapt this existing (totally client-specific, moderately rusty, non-reentrant) code to work for the server recovery case” into thoughts such as “I should probably schedule more than a day for this work”.

If there are compelling design reasons, I could be convinced to look at ear- or forehead-mounted devices of similar functionality, though shoulder-compatible units will receive preferential treatment in the selection process.

I heard today that we might have a cluster to test on tomorrow. Or maybe the day after. Soon, though. Maybe. If we’re lucky. Phil has our tests running pleasantly on a 20-node setup, so we really, really (not kidding this time) need access to a bigger group of machines if we’re to keep up our breakneck pace.

While I was out grabbing food last night, I bought some dumbbells, and my arms and chest are a touch sore today. It’s a good sore, really, but that goodness doesn’t make my mouse use any more pleasant. I’m sure it’ll pass. Zach and Alice are apparently having good fun with a Total Gym 1500; if I can keep anything resembling an exercise regimen going for a month or so, I might talk Tyla into letting me splurge on that.

I managed to get in and out of Kinko’s today for $1.09 and about 10 minutes, which feels like a decent achievement. I also managed to address Tyla’s job application delivered, which is excellent, because she’d have flayed me if I’d forgotten and missed the deadline.

My Mom called, asking about sushi restaurants in Kingston, and I drew nothing but blanks. She’s going to try a place called “Sapporo”, which I never made it to when we were living there.

Tonight is Christina’s little going-away thingy, so I’ll get to trot off and drink a bit with them in a little while. In the meantime, Andreas is hitting a crash that seems to be very much related to the big patch I landed yesterday, so I need to spend some time in gdb. Nat gave me jwz’s gdb hacks, so that experience should be marginally less painful.