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What a different day this was! I got to work as usual at 7:30 to find the whole Scotia Square complex dark. No power. None in the mall and none in the towers. That means we can't get to the office because the doors are locked from the stairwells. We can get out but not back in. Apparently the security scan doors were working but what was the point if all the lights were off and all the computers dead? The servers and probably the one the security system runs on have a separate power source apparently which is fine, it keeps the servers from crashing but does nothing for the rest of the staff in the building. AT least staff in other locations could continue to work i guess.
I went across the street to the hotel there as they have a coffee shop with Starbucks coffee and tea and had myself some brew. Called a coworker to get my manager's phone number. He said might as well go home and work from home though most of that would just be self-education since my laptop was in the office. Never mind. I did that. Took the bus home and when i got in, i went to the puter to check the work email. Guess what? Power was back on! And being dedicated, i saw i had 6 minutes to get back outside and catch the bus to go back. I did it.
Yes i did.
Because...
We had a training session at 10 which i still would have dumped if that was the only thing to think about but I had some things I wanted to transfer to production before someone else went on his vacation and i really did need to bring the laptop home for some testing on Sunday. So yes, i went in and i'm glad i did. The training was ok but then I ran into a problem with one of the things i was doing and i worked through lunch to fix that. When that was pushed to production, it didn't work though it did in the test side of things. Wha????
Turns out the report ID was different on the production server than on the test server. Duh. Switched the code out and it worked. Time to get a sandwich (it's 1:30 now!) There was a little do to see off a coworker so I went there. Still had one or two things to iron out and got all that done before i left for the day so it turned out quite productive in spite of the frantic start.
47. Nemesis - Jo Nesbo
Another of his Harry Hole detective/crime novels. I'm really starting to get into these Scandinavian crime novel authors. I read another good one but can't think of the author at the moment and i've seen a couple more that I think I might like. My problem is i'm reading these Harry Hole novels out of order and then I can remember what comes after in the next book and know how some of the things come out. Never mind. This one starts with a bank robbery and murder. There's another murder that Harry thinks he might have done in an alcoholic fog but things are never as they seem.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/662034185
48. Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
This one's been topping the lists for awhile. I don't usually enjoy the trendy books that everyone's reading as a rule but i did like this one. It's about a woman that goes missing on her wedding anniversary. The suspicion lands on the husband and the evidence, though circumstantial, is damning. We follow the search for either the wife or for the killer via the cops or the husband himself and travel back in time via the wife's diary. Neither of them are very nice people, as it turns out. I can't say more without spoiling it but though i liked the book, i'm not quite as satisfied with the ending.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/662034821
49. City of Bones - Cassandra Clare
This is another of the new Youth series that everyone is jumping all over. There's a movie of it coming up so I thought I'd try it. Wasn't very keen on it in the end. I didn't find it particularly well written, and it had far too much of the "heroine's" internal dialogue which was often completely unrelated to the crises going on around her. It's about these Shadowhunters who chase down demons and the like but an ex-shadowhunter has taken the mother ofa 15 year old who had no idea that her mother or she is a Shadowhunter and gets drawn into that world. I think I preferred the Hunger Games books.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/656653899
50. The Metamorphosis: The Apprenticeship of Harry Houdini - Bruce Macnab
This is a book by a local author who researched an early tour that Harry and his wife made around the Maritimes, here in Halifax, in Moncton, Yarmouth and some other local towns with a stage magic act. During the tour which was a financial disaster as it turns out, he developed his skills as an escape artist and the rest, as they say, is history. It was quite interesting, knowing the area and seeing how things were in the late 1800s.
51. The Lewis Man - Peter May
The second of three books about Fin MacLeod. He was a police inspector in the first book. Now he's left the force and moved back to the Isle of Lewis and gets involved in another mystery. A body of a man is found in a bog. He was murdered in the 1950s and it turns out he may be related to the father of Fin's ex-girlfriend Marsaili, the mother of the son he found out he had in the first book. The son has his own problems, dealing with the father of his girlfriend who's had his baby as well. We have the present investigation alternating with the first person narrative of the past of the father who has dementia and is often lost in his memories. Another very good book with beautifully flowing descriptions of the Hebrides.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/662028427
I went across the street to the hotel there as they have a coffee shop with Starbucks coffee and tea and had myself some brew. Called a coworker to get my manager's phone number. He said might as well go home and work from home though most of that would just be self-education since my laptop was in the office. Never mind. I did that. Took the bus home and when i got in, i went to the puter to check the work email. Guess what? Power was back on! And being dedicated, i saw i had 6 minutes to get back outside and catch the bus to go back. I did it.
Yes i did.
Because...
We had a training session at 10 which i still would have dumped if that was the only thing to think about but I had some things I wanted to transfer to production before someone else went on his vacation and i really did need to bring the laptop home for some testing on Sunday. So yes, i went in and i'm glad i did. The training was ok but then I ran into a problem with one of the things i was doing and i worked through lunch to fix that. When that was pushed to production, it didn't work though it did in the test side of things. Wha????
Turns out the report ID was different on the production server than on the test server. Duh. Switched the code out and it worked. Time to get a sandwich (it's 1:30 now!) There was a little do to see off a coworker so I went there. Still had one or two things to iron out and got all that done before i left for the day so it turned out quite productive in spite of the frantic start.
47. Nemesis - Jo Nesbo
Another of his Harry Hole detective/crime novels. I'm really starting to get into these Scandinavian crime novel authors. I read another good one but can't think of the author at the moment and i've seen a couple more that I think I might like. My problem is i'm reading these Harry Hole novels out of order and then I can remember what comes after in the next book and know how some of the things come out. Never mind. This one starts with a bank robbery and murder. There's another murder that Harry thinks he might have done in an alcoholic fog but things are never as they seem.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/662034185
48. Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
This one's been topping the lists for awhile. I don't usually enjoy the trendy books that everyone's reading as a rule but i did like this one. It's about a woman that goes missing on her wedding anniversary. The suspicion lands on the husband and the evidence, though circumstantial, is damning. We follow the search for either the wife or for the killer via the cops or the husband himself and travel back in time via the wife's diary. Neither of them are very nice people, as it turns out. I can't say more without spoiling it but though i liked the book, i'm not quite as satisfied with the ending.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/662034821
49. City of Bones - Cassandra Clare
This is another of the new Youth series that everyone is jumping all over. There's a movie of it coming up so I thought I'd try it. Wasn't very keen on it in the end. I didn't find it particularly well written, and it had far too much of the "heroine's" internal dialogue which was often completely unrelated to the crises going on around her. It's about these Shadowhunters who chase down demons and the like but an ex-shadowhunter has taken the mother ofa 15 year old who had no idea that her mother or she is a Shadowhunter and gets drawn into that world. I think I preferred the Hunger Games books.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/656653899
50. The Metamorphosis: The Apprenticeship of Harry Houdini - Bruce Macnab
This is a book by a local author who researched an early tour that Harry and his wife made around the Maritimes, here in Halifax, in Moncton, Yarmouth and some other local towns with a stage magic act. During the tour which was a financial disaster as it turns out, he developed his skills as an escape artist and the rest, as they say, is history. It was quite interesting, knowing the area and seeing how things were in the late 1800s.
51. The Lewis Man - Peter May
The second of three books about Fin MacLeod. He was a police inspector in the first book. Now he's left the force and moved back to the Isle of Lewis and gets involved in another mystery. A body of a man is found in a bog. He was murdered in the 1950s and it turns out he may be related to the father of Fin's ex-girlfriend Marsaili, the mother of the son he found out he had in the first book. The son has his own problems, dealing with the father of his girlfriend who's had his baby as well. We have the present investigation alternating with the first person narrative of the past of the father who has dementia and is often lost in his memories. Another very good book with beautifully flowing descriptions of the Hebrides.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/662028427