Carefree highway

Sometimes the damndest things are in your head when you wake up. This morning it was Gordon Lightfoot's Carefree Highway, and Jethro Tull's Cheap Day Return. No comment on the former, and as to the latter, well, I still like that album.

Rise at 4:45 to pee and have a flash of worry about the run last night. There are three sets of runs for each night. broken into two groups. The first set of three completed without issue - this was expected, since we really hadn't changed much in this grouping. I remembered as I awoke that I had seen elements of 2 groups of the second set come back, but nothing from the third. The flash was that perhaps it had been submitted to the grid, but hadn't actually run due to some error. Got down to the laptop to check, and lo - everything had run and completed on time. From my initial assessment, it appears that the entire release was clean. This for the first time since I've been here, so not a minor event.

Take care of the pets, then back up to bed for a quick doze that turns into almost two hours. Up, morning routines and into work. Final check of runs look good to me, a couple of things brought up by the customer, the major item being clearly explainable and not requiring any further work on our part. So, closer now to consensus on this being a very successful release. Now, on to the next item in the pipeline. Of course, these QA runs are delayed. Even in normal times, this time of year the compute grid is pretty well maxed out. Given the current market, every single cycle on every single node is being used as capital estimates, reserve calculations and all manner of actuarial, financial and accounting calculations are being done to ensure that we're using the money we have in the best way possible.

Down to Orange Ale House for a reunion of sorts with former and current Bayer people. A good turnout, new updates on everyone's status, a few people not only healthier but far slimmer than the last time we all met. Overall, a good time.

Home, address a QA issue, acknowledge the AAD team, then to bed.