Ow ow ow I'm awake I'm awake!

Last night I was having a strange, vaguely Breath of Fire-related dream, and was just about to equip the skill 'yes, we are not immune, even to healing spells' to a character that was like this pair of sadistic, magical naked baby twins, that looked like a combination of Mew and Shiva, only malevolently French (and that I had a sneaking suspicion, during the dream, were not supposed to even be in the game, and were making up their stats and skills as they went along) when I was suddenly awoken by horrible stabbing pains in my calf.

This isn't the first time that's happened -- I just get nasty muscle cramps there sometimes. I tried taking anti-cramp vitamins once, and it make it happen more often... since I stopped, they're like once-every-six-months things again.

Anyway, I was awake, then, and didn't want to go back to sleep, so I took a shower and all, even though it was only 7am. Ugh. In the shower, I kept being horribly afraid that my legs would cramp up again and make me fall and hit my head on the faucet and bleed to death in a very embarassing manner. But they didn't.

So I had two hours before work to play some Dark Cloud 2... sigh. I keep dying, and I HATE HATE HATE the invention system. I spent maybe an hour combining random things (since they things you combine never make any logical sense, and you have no idea what the hell you're trying to invent anyway) from the list of sixty or so that I've built up, and got two incomplete leads (one needs a P...., one a Wi...., but not a Window, which I tried) and one invention.

An aquarium. That... holds fish. YAY!

Bug is TRULY From Hell...

...and it has my firmly in its clutches. I got the leads to buy off on it, but it caused a difficult-to-debug failure in the quicktest on the build machines.

Fortunately, this failure was simply not being *reported* on my machine, so I could actually debug it once I knew what to look for.

Unfortunately, it's not an easy thing to fix. Unfortunately, I have to fix it tonight so that tomorrow's builds will work. Unfortunately, since I broke today's build I'm the new hoser, until someone else eventually breaks something. Unfortunately, we just stopped the massive bug-fix push that tends to have a lot of checkins (and thus new hosers), so I might be stuck doing this for a while.

Unfortunately, I'd already started on my next task which may or may not even *compile*, and I don't really want to back it out so that I can test this fix by itself (although of course I'll be checking it in by itself).

So I could be here for a while.

There is one way to avoid being the hoser... I could be unavoidably absent from work until a new hoser came around. Anyone want to come by and break some bones that'll put me in the hospital for a couple weeks?

Just kidding. I have an HMO, so broken bones probably aren't covered.