Stained Glass Wings

12:43am: writing: The Third Ether
part 3: 2277 words. All new.
Total: 51,915 words.

OK, it wanted to go off into a discursion about the demi-scoundrel who founded the firm who do assembly-line magic-mirror production by whom our protagonist is now employed, but it feels solid to me.

12:17pm: time is like a bullet from behind
Principal development server is away for repairs.

New version of EndNotes does not work with existing Windows emulator. Asked $sysadmin yesterday evening to set up other Windows emulator. Machine hosting Windows emulator is today also semi-down and unusable. Causal connection here unclear.

Database curator home with sick child yet again.

Programmer's schemata and flowcharts need to be massively redone, as it is clear he has not actually been taught old-school formal flowcharting with the marking of decision points.

Did not get to mopping floors last night as was distracted by people being interesting and articulate online. (Did however do the moving of furniture and the brushing underneath thereof.)

Am rereading Sorcery and Cecelia. It is comforting.

12:27pm: OK, cheerful now anyway
The lost bits of Metropolis appear to have been found.

[ link c/o moominmuppet ]