Saturday and Sunday were definitely days. Not sure if they qualify as good or bad, but they were definitely days.
Saturday started with Kim and I leaving the house early to get some errands done. One of the errands we ran was to clean up the back yard at the house we're still trying to sell (if you're looking for a 2 bedroom in Alpharetta, let me know). Anyway, we get there and mow the grass and trim the bushy stuff when we realize we really need another lawn bag or two and the electric hedge trimmer. So we get in my car to drive home and pick up the other stuff and find that my car battery is dead. We called a friend to come give us a jump but it turns out that the cables they borrowed from a neighbor were just not up to the task. This is according to the AAA mechanic I had to call after our friend left to take Kim home. Kim had to get home b/c we were expecting Home Depot to deliver our order of patio furniture that afternoon. She receives the patio furniture and drives back to the Alpharetta property just in time to follow me to the car dealership where I am going to have them replace the battery. This is the car's 3rd battery in under 44k miles and less than 3 years! To my great surprise, the battery was NOT under warranty. Apparently it carries its own warrantee which is only good till 36000 miles. I'll argue this point with the dealership later, I just didn't have the patience to deal with them in a reasonable fashion. As it was, it took them nearly 3 hours to replace the battery and they charged me about $65 for the priviledge.
After we got out of the dealership, we went home to start putting together the patio furniture before our previously scheduled dinner out with friends. We spent about 45 minutes screwing stuff together only to realize that we'd done it upside down. Frustrating.
At least dinner with our friends Courtney and Elliot was enjoyable. We went back to their place after dinner to meet the brand new puppy and play board games. After I demolished them at Trivial Pursuit, we decided to play a new game - Pimps and Ho's. Check out www.pimpsandhos.com to learn more about this Monopoly-like celebration of low-brow humor. The game was gross and funny. We had a blast playing it.
Sunday, starting at about 10:30am, Kim and I spent about 5 hours putting together the patio furniture (right-side up this time) and we also went to see our friend Melissa's new home for the first time since she moved in 3 weeks ago. After dinner I ran to Barnes and Noble and picked up a copy of the new Harry Potter book. I'm about 50% through it now and I've threatened everyone near me who's already finished it with death should they reveal any of the story to me before I finish it.
So, that was my weekend. Oh - it also rained every day. I know that Georgia is experiencing a drought, but it's rained every day for the last eight days at my house. My grass, which was previously dry and brittle, is now nearly 2 feet tall. I'd mow it but it's always raining!
Due to circumstances beyond anyone's control, or at least due to things I don't know about, the Geek Dinner originally scheduled for tonight has been cancelled.
It's beginning to feel a bit like I've been cursed recently. Things which should work, aren't. Things which other people have done successfully in the past are killing me!
Example?
MakeCab.exe takes a parameter which identifies whether or not to span a CAB file:
.set DiskDirectoryTemplate=CDROM ; All cabinets go in a single directory
It recommends that right here in MSDN
I try it on my disk, and my 3MB .CAB file (WSP) is being spanned at 1.44MB, as if it were a floppy disk! No idea why!
Man this sucks! However, at least I'm not infected with some kind of bowel-shattering virus which would force me to the emergency room all night, right?
The IT Architect Regional Conference 2007 that will be held in Atlanta was on Forbes.com today. This should be an awesome event with tons of great speakers. If you haven't heard about it yet, Atlanta will be the first region to hold the event. Check out the full article
http://www.forbes.com/businesswire/feeds/businesswire/2007/07/10/businesswire20070710005688r1.html
The event will be on September 13-14th so make sure and register.
We are lucky to have a bunch of Microsoft DE's in Atlanta and they are going to put together some great training . This should be a great time and we will have some fun time for developers at the Alpharetta Microsoft Building tonight. Make sure and check out the great presentations as well as the "Whose Slide improv"!
Check out the full agenda on Doug's Blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/dougturn/archive/2007/07/06/whose-slide-is-it-anyway-atlanta.aspx