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The test cluster was down for much of today getting some extra disks welded on, so Phil and I ran some quick errands in the afternoon: lunch, pickup of concert tickets, and acquisition of video games that we will likely never have time to play.
When the cluster was returned to service, I got another afternoon’s worth of frustration chasing logs and “good” test runs — by which I mean “representative and well-instrumented”, not “passing”; I am ambitious, but not insane. Coop did some good work on my behalf chasing people and running tests, for which I rewarded him with some fixes to test bits and actual bugs. I hope he’s happy with the trade, because we’re going to be making it over and over again until we pass these tests.
The Matthew Good concert was pretty excellent. The first opening act (“Pilate”) was pretty good; I might search out more of their music on my own. The second group, “The Dears”, is part of the whole Matthew Good tour, and they sucked so hard my ears popped. The keyboardists were pretty hot, though. And speaking of hot, I should clearly have been spending more time at Matthew Good concerts when I was younger and singler. Aye carumba. I don’t know how Phil left that place without at least two wives.
Matt also replaced the “super-size” rant from the album version of “21st Century Living” with the inevitable war commentary. Not really my political take, but I can generally handle opposing viewpoints pretty gracefully; that’s the flavour of “liberalism” to which I subscribe. I did think that his description of US troops kicking back with a Budweiser to relax after “taking pot-shots at women and children” was out of line, though. Someone appears to have spilled some Michael Moore in my rock star.
Phil and I had planned to watch the Leafs game on tape after we got back from the conference, but some dork-head announcer at the concert told us that they’d lost 4-1. Kinda took the wind out of our sails. We’ll save up our hockey time for tomorrow, when Alasdair comes over to watch the Sens try to regenerate some dignity.