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Hanging around the house this afternoon, slept a lot last night, took a nap this afternoon, and feeling pretty awake.

Dinner tonight with my mom and Kate and, if she gets her act together, my sister (who is probably working this afternoon and so has a pretty good reason for not calling me back).

I’ve spent most of the last week working with Xen, which is an open-source project that allows multiple virtual machines to be run on a single computer. Each machine has it’s own software installation, it’s own network stack, and is managed independently. Step one for Xen is providing a QA environment for SU that’s more like our production environment — where each QA installation acts more like a single machine. Beyond the setup of the base machine (which was the easy part), I’ve been working on a web-based management interface, allowing deployment and management of any number of installations from a single console. It’s meant doing some hacky stuff with xinetd and BASH, but has been quite interesting.

In the next couple of days I’ll finish up with that, and get back into the analytics stuff that I was working on back in the Spring. It’s been a few months since I’ve been really deep in numbers, and I’m looking forward to getting back into it.

The really exciting news of the day is that Jo-Jo made it back to the States. She and her family were evacuated to Cypress, and flew home from there. I’m psyched that she’s out from under Israeli bombs, and isn’t going to be stuck in the middle of a war.

This coming week is also moving week for mom, so I’ll be spending a couple of afternoons and evenings in Dorchester helping to crate things, and carry boxes around, getting ready for the movers. I fly down to Philly on Friday evening, and then drive to Wildwood from there, and by the time I get back late Sunday night I expect that she’ll be more or less settled in to the new place.

Wow.

Played Robo Rally last night with Kate and her brother, Jon, and his girlfriend, Molly. Totally fun. Geekiest game ever, but great fun. There’s apparently an online version somewhere, but I don’t remember the name of it.

Oh, for those who missed it, Taz is back online.

And that’s the news at 6. Or 6:10, actually. I’m really really going to try to post more often. Really I am. But at least I’m posting more than Jeff (whose blog title seems to have been stolen).