babyjesus's blog: "living the dream (boring activity logs)"

6:45am - woke up.

7:14am - dressed and reading email.

7:15am - reading and approving comments/PM's on my fubar account.

7:18am - checking fubar spam queues

7:19am - going to the office, hopefully venus cafe is open today!

7:39am - fuck the venus cafe. they're dead to me.

7:39am - reading and approving comments/PM's on my fubar account.

7:40am - reviewing nightly graphs and reports. boomerang dun killed it.

8:05am - prepping for 11am weekly staff meeting.

8:23am - just noticed eric and frank checked stuff into the fubar code base this morning. rolling out to site now..

8:23am - still prepping for staff meeting.

8:35am - finished prepping for staff meeting.

8:36am - reading and approving comments/PM's on my fubar account.

8:38am - getting a 'dew and checking the fubar spammer queues.

8:50am - an engineer is spamming our php error log, which makes me hostile. asking eng to fix.

8:52am - reading and approving comments/PM's on my fubar account.

8:54am - formatting and posting yesterdays activity log to my fubar blog.

9:07am - posted yesterdays activity log to my fubar blog.

9:07am - reading and approving comments/PM's on my fubar account.

9:12am - IM from someone I worked with as a consultant over at paypal/ebay. he's looking for a job.

9:20am - checking SAI for any interesting news this morning.

9:29am - reading and approving comments/PM's on my fubar account.

9:32am - grabbing coffee with bill.

10:31am - back from coffee.

10:33am - talked with frank about the new login-less home page for anonymous users. he still thinks im crazy and that it'll perform worse than the old style.

10:35am - reading and approving comments/PM's on my fubar account.

10:41am - a fubar member made me a salute, ripped to my fubar album.

10:45am - moved downstairs for staff meeting.

10:45am - reading and approving comments/PM's on my fubar account.

10:58am - fubar member suggested we change the 'send a round' drink to tequila for cinco de mayo, great idea! just changed it, and rolling out the site.

11:00am - social concepts staff meeting.

11:06am - reset blocked mummers on fubar.

11:38am - staff meeting over.

11:40am - weekly user experience meeting starting.

11:54am - i smell bbq coming from up stairs!

12:05pm - user experience meeting over. very heated discussion about the login-less changes. on schedule for friday release (48 hours).

12:05pm - reading and approving comments/PM's on my fubar account.

12:08pm - rolling out fubar for abhi's code checkin.

12:15pm - looking for dave for our late bling meeting, couldn't find him.

12:16pm - going to bev mo to get a margarita machine for the office.

1:15pm - back from bev mo. all they had were crappy machines, but we did get some good tequila.

1:15pm - time to try some food from the bbq. thanks frank!

1:30pm - reading and approving comments/PM's on my fubar account

1:31pm - bling meeting.

1:37pm - rolling out erics tweaks to the boomerang.

1:44pm - bling update sent. better late than never!

1:45pm - reading and approving comments/PM's on my fubar account.

1:53pm - checking facebook. noticed slightly stoopid is letting people download their acoustic album for free in honor of cinco de mayo. downloading.....

1:55pm - reading and approving comments/PM's on my fubar account.

2:02pm - checking spammer queues on fubar.

2:07pm - bug fix rollout to fubar.

2:21pm - rollout to fubar with updated bling items.

2:34pm - disabling our PM database slave to upgrade innodb plugin to get better compression. reads being sent to the master.

2:35pm - reading and approving comments/PM's on my fubar account.

2:45pm - time to have a shot of the tequila we picked up at bev mo this afternoon. wonder who else will sneak over when they hear what's going down...

2:58pm - uploaded pics of the tequila to fubar and facebook from my phone.

3:03pm - lucky 13 took the first shot of tequila. only 5 for the second! lol

3:04pm - reading and approving comments/PM's on my fubar account.

3:15pm - time for some pool.

4:14pm - i won 5 games to 4. no mercy!

4:14pm - reading and approving comments/PM's on my fubar account.

4:24pm - sent feedback regarding startup bullet points for login- less home page.

4:25pm - reading and approving comments/PM's on my fubar account.

4:26pm - checking fubar spam queue.

4:43pm - left a comment on a article about theladders.com on SAI, it'll probably be deleted.. but it made me laugh.

4:45pm - going home to help move some stuff around for our cinco de mayo party on saturday.

5:13pm - got home. hanging out with the wilson clan who had built us a new tv stand.

6:02pm - reading and approving comments/PM's on my fubar account.

6:15pm - setup the ps3 to use my wifi at home. need to play uncharted 2 online. 6:27pm - going to pickup some dinner.

7:30pm - who would have thought the local taqueria would be packed on cinco de mayo evening? just got back with an order to-go.

7:38pm - reading and approving comments/PM's on my fubar account.

7:56pm - uncharted 2 is downloading like 1238712 Gigs of updates. this'll be awhile.

8:07pm - woot, just got notified my account was flagged for WoW beta. woot!

8:46pm - trying to get the WoW beta client to install on my game machine. it's not happy and i can't get into the beta forums since i couldn't login, there for it doesn't see any characters on my account. lol

8:58pm - got the WoW beta installer working. had to download it a second time... weird.

9:02pm - reading and approving comments/PM's on my fubar account.

9:03pm - time for some uncharted 2.

9:20pm - watching deadliest catch

10:14pm - reading and approving comments/PM's on my fubar account.

10:15pm - talked with tom about PM database maintenance.

10:17pm - going to bed.

10:20pm - i lied. need to put the normal fubar PM slave back into production. commited and rolling out..

10:24pm - now going to bed.