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It's been a while since I've posted a blog entry.  To be honest, there's not been much to write about.  So here is my life in bullet points, in no particular order:

• The snakes have been out and about on the bike paths lately.  The most recent incident involved a snake that was standing up in the middle of the path.  Kind of like a twig that's bent into a right angle.  Except, not a twig.  The cyclist in front of me tried to avoid it, but ran over its tail.  It short forward (towards me), then whipped around and went off the path and climbed up a tree.  Bloody snakes, it scared the crap outta me.  It looked kinda like this, except smaller and without a wall:

• Work's been insanely busy and tiring.  There are a couple people at work who are giving me the shits, bigtime, and I feel the only solution is for them to leave or for me to leave.  I'm doing my best to make sure either a) they leave or b) they lift their game.  I'm tired of carrying other people in my team.

• I've been doing a lot of work with virtual machines lately in an effort to get myself up to speed with Win2k8.  My PC wasn't up to the task, so I got myself a new box.  An Intel i7 with 8GB of RAM and a souped-up video card.  It's coping quite well with the rigors of multiple concurrent VMs.  Did I mention it presents eight cores to the OS?

• 8GB of RAM means an x64 OS, so I've got Win7 x64 Pro on the new box.  So far I haven't found any problems with drivers or software that doesn't like x64.  My challenges have actually been more around Win7's user access control BS that, even though I'm logged in as an administrator, questions or even prevents me from doing administrative things.  Sometimes, installers look like they've successfully installed a program, only to find that when you run it, half the damn files are missing.  That has been a source of great frustration.

• I haven't been riding as much as I'd like.  It's very cold in the mornings and it saps my motivation.  This means I haven't ridden to work in over a month.  I'm a pussy and should just suck it up and ride.  To that end, I have packed my clothes and other bits and pieces to take to work today, in preparation for riding to work tomorrow.  It could be much worse.  At least my bike's not like this:

• I've done a few rides with BikerChick, and they've been fun.  She's good to ride with - we're at about the same level of proficiency, she doesn't want to blab on and on while we're riding, but she's not silent either, she doesn't drop me like a rock, and on those occasions that we do get separated, she stops and waits for me (or vice versa).  It's good.

• Facebookland - there was a reunion organised for former members of the QAIRTC/2WG AAFC.  I was very enthusiastic about this until I realised that none of my Cadet buddies would be there, so it'd be a bunch of strangers in a loud pub talking about people and events I wasn't a part of.  So after a great deal of anticipation, I ended up not going.

• I've been watching a great deal of Star Trek.  I'm catching up on Star Trek: The Next Generation.  Some of the episodes are really cheesy, but they're mostly fun.  The good part is that I can skip the episodes I don't want to watch (yay, DVD).

There's really not much else to report.  Best I get myself organised for work.