No posts lately because my PC has gone MIA. It won’t start up. At all. The power comes on but it doesn’t do anything else. I took it to the shop and we’ll see what they say.

Otherwise: I have an embarrassing story to tell. I usually have popcorn with some friends at work in the afternoon and today was no exception. One of the guys keeps a stash of microwave popcorn in his desk and I took one of them out and asked how much time it would need. “Three and a half minutes,” he said. I ambled off to the microwave, set it at 3:30, and went to watch the news in the lounge. When I got back and removed the popcorn, it was smoking like a sonofabitch. I looked around me and noticed water sprinklers on the ceiling. I freaked, left the kitchenette, and walked around the lounge with a smoking bag of popcorn. The building fire alarms went off and the PA announced as much. A rent-a-cop walked up and told the guys on the other end of the walkie-talkie that it was a bag of popcorn, took my popcorn, and released me.

I returned to my area (reeking of burnt popcorn) and was promptly laughed at. The jokes will last for weeks. “Ha, he doesn’t write code anymore; he can’t even work a microwave.”