Sunday

Alarm went off at 09:30 (like it was supposed to).. and 09:35, 40, 45, 50, 55...
Got the hint and got up/dressed and drove off to the office.

No sign of bcrl or _A_ (10:30)

Phoned mum to wish her best (mothers day in the UK). Caught up on all the unpleasentness of the current foot and mouth restrictions in the provance

Wandered outside again to let _A_ in (10:50) and a bit later on drove over to la quinta to pick bcrl up. In theory they should have been issued with office keys, alas, this was fouled up somewhere so I'm having to show them how to break into the office.... (ie phone me)

Got phone call from my sister asking what I'd like for my birthday. I asked for some peace and quiet. Instead I got exactly the opposite 8/
I can think of a large number of reasons to be back in the UK right about now. Actually I can think of a pharmacy I want to go get some headache tablets from.

Moved the BryceCam for telsa's convience so that she could make sure that _A_ was working and not having a party without her in the US.

Took _A_/bcrl/Al Viro off to Ruby Tuesdays for lunch. Many kernel hacking discussions. In a blinding moment of insanity, paid for everyone's lunch.

Back at the office, the kernel hacking became darker and more ritualistic,.. lights started to go out (-> 1/2 lighting) a set of speakers were tiched up to a box for the music, and a number of chickens were sacraficed to the gods in the hope that it would fix the kernel memory corruption problems.

Mark Cox called up asking for a lift to the airport, so went and ran him out there. Caught up on some of the more fun business unit problems that are in the air at the moment. He won't be back till Thursday. Mind you he did bribe me with a bar of tolberone chocolate 8)

Arjan showed up shortly after this (don't use the almost black chickens..) and I spent a merry 1/2 hr allocating a desk and computer for him to use. Decided that he probably didn't want the japanesse language install that was already on the machine. Reinstalled the latest software tree on the machine for him to abuse. (hur hur hur)

Later on we went out for an Indian meal. Immeadiately we got outside bcrl had a brainstorm (and minor swearing session) as he figured out yet another possible bug that might be in the initrd section of the kernel. He ranted a bit then we bundled him in the car and drove off to the indian where it was all dicussed over the meal. Was at the indian for about 2 hours.

Back at the office more hacking on the kernel, bcrl busy with the bootmem problem, myself with the alpha deadlock problem _A_ with various patchs for the next ac kernel patch, al viro working on the everything will be a filesystem personal project he has.

Busy busy busy day.