Tangerine Sunset

Second night in the row that I've been on my way home from work just before 6pm. Sky in the distance was a really beautiful tangerine color over the west hills of Portland. It faded off at the edges of the hills to a shade of pale pink, but right over top of the hills it was really stunning.

Intranet install looks complete and stable. Will have to be back at the client site tomorrow to babysit the first day of operation to do any last minute fire-stomping of problems and make sure it is entirely stable under their expected usage load. Usually the first day is the worse, everyone sees the new intranet and spends hours just playing with it to see what changed and how things work. Usually makes for a pretty good stress-test and shake-down. Boring as hell for me though, just watching usage meters and server resources.

Bus route home on the weekends is odd. Couple routes I normally take are week-day only, so have to take an alternate path and walk a couple extra blocks at the end of the trip. End up passing by some landmarks that I really normally try to avoid, little slices of memories I try not to dredge up.

Have a moral dilemma at the moment I am trying to resolve. Not sure whether I should feel guilty or not about having pretty well emptied out all of the normal Coke from the soda machine at the client site's break room. Going to have to take some soda with me tomorrow, not sure how often it gets re-stocked. My kidneys are unhappy with my having drunk so much, but I needed the caffiene to stay awake today. Long boring hours of watching testing macros run.

Blog-reading to unwind, then need to cook dinner, then not sure what to do with the rest of my evening but sure I'll come up with something.