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Day: June 13, 2006

My contribution to EBI Service Day

Posted on June 13, 2006 By admin 4 Comments on My contribution to EBI Service Day

Today was EBI's Service Day, where the various groups talk about what they do. I had to give a 5 minute lightning presentation on PRIDE. Didn't go too badly. Was nervous as heck, but I always am when I speak to a large crowd, so that's no biggie. I caught myself before I said a bad word in front of my bosses, so yay for self-filtering blathering. (The exact sentence was going to say “There are no entry points to browse the data, so if you don't know what you're looking for to use the query interface, you're screwed…pause…in trouble.

Amusing quote of the day was “I work in IT, I don't know what a tie is!”, which made me giggle.

It's been muggy as hell hereabouts for the last 2 days. A warm morass of humid air decided to hunker down and make us all miserable all of a sudden. For once, I wish it would rain. A lot. Maybe that would clear the air. It probably couldn't be worse than it is now. I have come to the conclusion that when we finally buy a house, the 3 criteria that it must have are a large kitchen, screens on the windows and fucking AC. The last two should not be a problem in a civilized country such as Canada, but in the wilderness that is Great Britain, it's near impossible to find. The whole concept is just… alien to them. Whatever. Barbarians, the lot of them, I say.

On brighter news, I've almost finished with the layout of ht wedding invitations, so I'll be able to get them printed probably tomorrow (and before the end of the week, for certain). I'm really happy about the results.

On more brighter news, we'll be getting the pussycat on July 22nd. The breeder is going to give him the last set of shots on the 17th, so he's ours any time after that.

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