Waiting for Duncan

Last night we had a session of the 1890's/Neverwhere GURPS campaign. If you boil it down, the entire session was basically the 'You meet an old man in a tavern' scene, where we were informed about possible quests we could take, and fluttered about trying to decide whether we should actually take on one of them or not.

( game summary )

It didn't occur to me after the game that I *had* seen a Feral -- at the library, the ghoul-looking thing. I think someone there even called it a Feral. That means the blue-armored samurai-type must have been a noble.

Frustration, and voting

Last night, before the game, I was trying to sync up at work so that I could have overnight builds running over the weekend, and hopefully check in Monday... but everything went wrong. I got a million billion errors that some files were writable and therefore woudln't be 'stomped' -- this is a stupid error that happens now and then, because Source Depot is kind of unreliable that way. So I tried to delete them with 'del *.* /s /q' (in the subdirectory where I knew I had nothing checked out) and waited for it to finish...

...and waited, and waited, and eventually realized that it was getting asymptotically slower. I tried to close other windows to give it more resources, and finally, when that didn't work, to stop the process itself, but it was too late -- I couldn't even get the start menu up to select 'shut down'. So I pulled the plug.

When the computer came back up, I did the rest of the pre-script munging (resolving merge conflicts), but when I went to transfer those changes over to the build machine, one of the necessary network shares (but not the other) wasn't working, and when I tried to bring up computer management to figure out why, it hung.

By this point I was already late for the game -- let alone late for leaving work -- and I was really, really pissed. I managed not to break anything important this time, at least. [sigh]

I eventually just re-did the changes on the build machine, and I'll have to resolve any differences in those -- and fix whatever's wrong with the damn network -- next week. At least being that late meant that traffic had died down.

Today I finally got my absentee ballot in. The initiatives this time were really suspicious-looking -- it's like the state government is at war with the initiative system, and if only the other side wasn't Tim-freaking-Eynman. There was a spectacularly, mind bogglingly idiotic suggestion on the ballot (from the government) to switch over to a single, merged primary, from which the top two candidates would be selected to go on to the general election. Because, of course, it's a good thing for a party to need a pre-primary primary to avoid political suicide by running two candidates in the primary.

All the libertarian candidates were urging people to vote yes on 'I-318', implementing instant-runoff voting. I-318, unfortunately, was not on the ballot. I find it hard to beleive they couldnt' collect the signatures they needed for something like that... so something must be up.

Grrgh.