Weekend Update
Aug. 30th, 2010 04:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rwrylsinI am aching and feeling sorry for myself.
On impulse we went skiing at Lake Mountain again yesterday. Went for a long trek around the trails and definitely seem to be getting the hang of it. However the down side of a place that's really good for newbies to practise on is that you get a lot of fellow-newbies scattered all over the trails. It was only a matter of time I suppose until I met a situation where the only way to avoid hitting anyone or going over the edge would be to fall over.
Unfortunately they were also undecided about which way they should shuffle to let me through, with the result that the gap on my chosen evasive trajectory further narrowed. My solution was to fall backward so I would fit in the gap, but next time my neck wants me to just risk running into them. Knocked my head on the ground, and now can't turn my head much :-/
Aside from that, a good day. Lots of snow and less icy than last time.
Saturday saw David head up into the hills to help someone bottle their wine. He has returned with a few bottles to add to his stash.
I went fencing, and actually fenced for a change. Didn't do too badly for someone so out of practice, although most of my points were scored more out of lucky reflexes than intent. I have plenty of bruises from the less-lucky reflex actions.
Dropped around to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hespa's place to drop off some boxes. The end is in sight for our box hoard, and I think most of the bubblewrap is gone too. We've been able to put away the Christmas tree at last ;)
Rode to work today and now the bike has been serviced by the handy mobile bike-service guy. Early signs are promising, with a new chain and brake cable everything seems to be working much more smoothly, and I even had enough cash on hand to pay for it.
At work, well, looks like we're definitely both building and supporting Weblogic appservers now, and even have some money for training. New boss hasn't found anyone else with Weblogic experience so I remain the expert on the basis of having had some training and installed it once. This is good, it'll be more interesting that most of what I've had to do lately. There'll be a whole build and release framework to script, and probably enough time to do it.
Sounds like our team headcount will be replenished very soon too, she doesn't mess about.
On impulse we went skiing at Lake Mountain again yesterday. Went for a long trek around the trails and definitely seem to be getting the hang of it. However the down side of a place that's really good for newbies to practise on is that you get a lot of fellow-newbies scattered all over the trails. It was only a matter of time I suppose until I met a situation where the only way to avoid hitting anyone or going over the edge would be to fall over.
Unfortunately they were also undecided about which way they should shuffle to let me through, with the result that the gap on my chosen evasive trajectory further narrowed. My solution was to fall backward so I would fit in the gap, but next time my neck wants me to just risk running into them. Knocked my head on the ground, and now can't turn my head much :-/
Aside from that, a good day. Lots of snow and less icy than last time.
Saturday saw David head up into the hills to help someone bottle their wine. He has returned with a few bottles to add to his stash.
I went fencing, and actually fenced for a change. Didn't do too badly for someone so out of practice, although most of my points were scored more out of lucky reflexes than intent. I have plenty of bruises from the less-lucky reflex actions.
Dropped around to
hespa's place to drop off some boxes. The end is in sight for our box hoard, and I think most of the bubblewrap is gone too. We've been able to put away the Christmas tree at last ;)Rode to work today and now the bike has been serviced by the handy mobile bike-service guy. Early signs are promising, with a new chain and brake cable everything seems to be working much more smoothly, and I even had enough cash on hand to pay for it.
At work, well, looks like we're definitely both building and supporting Weblogic appservers now, and even have some money for training. New boss hasn't found anyone else with Weblogic experience so I remain the expert on the basis of having had some training and installed it once. This is good, it'll be more interesting that most of what I've had to do lately. There'll be a whole build and release framework to script, and probably enough time to do it.
Sounds like our team headcount will be replenished very soon too, she doesn't mess about.
