{"id":137,"date":"2005-05-18T02:02:25","date_gmt":"2005-05-18T07:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/?p=137"},"modified":"2005-05-18T02:02:25","modified_gmt":"2005-05-18T07:02:25","slug":"a-midnight-snack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/18\/a-midnight-snack\/","title":{"rendered":"A Midnight Snack"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was a long day and powered by too little food, so it’s no surprise that I got a little hungry.
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\nTonight’s scrumptious meal started with day old garlic bread, followed by a main course of Rice Chex<\/a> drenched in Lamers Dairy<\/a> 2% milk and accompanied by a delightful glass of [ yellow tail ]<\/a> Shiraz.<\/p>\n

Do not get me wrong. I’m not a drunkard. I don’t make up reasons to justify a drink regardless of how flimsy they might be. In fact, for reasons I won’t get into at the moment I generally avoid alcohol. I have discovered – perhaps with the exception of cheap wine (ew) – that it’s nearly impossible to drink wine quickly.<\/p>\n

What really happened was this:<\/p>\n

I had a couple of things to show Michelle on the computer for her new business venture. Before we started I poured a couple of glasses for us to enjoy, as long as we were going to be up for a little while longer. After I got her started on the computer I went upstairs to ready myself for bed and to check my email.<\/p>\n

I took a sip of wine. The flavor of the wine rolling around my tongue was really quite enjoyable, but suddenly something caught my eye. What’s this,<\/em> I thought. One of my servers is down?<\/em> A couple of taps on the keyboard confirmed it. (sigh…) Well, maybe Richard is still at work, and maybe he has access to the computer room.<\/em> You see, Richard is visiting us from another office, and he came in late today, so I figured that he may still be there. I took another sip of wine.<\/p>\n

While I was trying to decide what to do next, Richard emailed me back. He’ll try the door, he said. And a few minutes later came the negative response. I really don’t want to go in to work at 11:30 p.m.,<\/em> I thought. Alas, it was not to be; I noticed an error on the other server – the primary that this crashed server plays backup to – that can’t be fixed without bringing down the program that’s spewing out errors at the rate of 5-15 per second. Gah. I have to go in. Gah.<\/em><\/p>\n

I got dressed again, kissed Michelle good night, and started collecting the necessary bits to get me to work and into the computer room. Since I was going, and since Max (our beautiful Himalayan cat) has been itching to get outside, I got his collar and harness and we set off on our grand adventure. First a trip to the gas station since I had not expected to have to take an extra trip to work, and the ol’ gas gauge was hovering dangerously low. Then, I sat for nearly 10 minutes before deciding that the sensors were completely scrooged at the traffic light near the station. What a waste of time.<\/em> I backed up, turned right (thank goodness for right-on-red!), went a block in the wrong direction and turned back around. Finally, I was off to work.<\/p>\n

It didn’t take too long once I arrived; I was only there about 30 minutes, maybe a hair longer. Of course there was no indication of what went wrong. All I can say is that this is the first time in a long time that I have seen a machine wedge so hard that absolutely nothing but the power switch or reset switch could bring it out of its reverie. I have a distinct feeling that it could be related to the fact that this is a relatively old dual-processor system with some crude multiprocessing support hardware.<\/p>\n

But enough of the geek stuff. After all, this is not in that category. By the time we arrived home it was well past 1:30 a.m. and chef boy-ar-dee, was I ever hungry. I needed food, I needed it fast, and I needed it cold. The first thing I spotted was the aforementioned garlic bread. Mmmmm, hard<\/em> garlic bread, munch munch. Scanning the pantry yielded plenty of things I ought not eat after 8 p.m., but hey, cold cereal is relatively healthy, and Rice Chex in particular isn’t loaded up with sugar, so hey, why not? And then, while I was eating, it occurred to me that I still had my glass of wine in the refrigerator. The absurdity of the thought struck me so much that I had to write it down.<\/p>\n

And, here I sit, writing these last few words as I polish off the last of my glass of [yellow tail] Shiraz.<\/p>\n

Let me ask you something: Do you ever feel like you’re from another planet?<\/p>\n

Yeah, I didn’t think so.<\/p>\n

For more on wine – tasting, history, tidbits and other fun stuff – check out Tim Elliot’s Winecast<\/a>, currently at 23 shows and counting. You can hear more about the type of wine I had tonight on Winecast 20 – Syrah<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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