grendelkhan (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} grendelkhan) wrote,@ 2007-04-17 00:31:00 |
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flooding. fuck jasper reports.
The damned power went out around midnight-thirty last night. I powered down the laptop, and went to bed--without lights, there's not really anything to do at that hour, and we don't have flashlights. I magically happened to wake up not long after eight in the morning, and while I was considering what to do with the contents of the fridge, the power came back on. Despite spending roughly eight hours without power, the fridge kept its contents well-refrigerated. My frozen broccoli remained pristine, my ice cubes unmelted. I think I was pessimistic due to the last refrigerator mishap I had, when the compressor died and it filled the fridge with hot air.
Work was tiring as hell today. I discovered a problem in Jasper Reports 1.2.7: when a field extends to one line, this will allow the field to stretch. However, this works in the HTML output, not the PDF. I had the bright idea of upgrading to 1.3.2, the current release, but it fails to compile any report designs which reference static inner classes (in our case, an enum), which we need. Seriously, don't these people have unit tests? I then downgraded to 1.3.1... but that broke our build system with a faintly familiar error involving multiple inclusion of the logging jar. I ran out of ideas and threw up my hands, whereupon Jay solved the problem just before we left. He's good at things like that. But honestly, fuck Jasper Reports.
I think I'm coming down with what she had over the weekend; I'm feeling generally yecchy. She made me soup and ordered in some Chinese food, after we started our getting-home process which consisted of immediately taking off our shoes, flopping on the bed and reading the new comics that arrived today. I got Ex Machina v5, Sandman Mystery Theatre v1 and Lucifer v1-2. Clearly I'm starting some new series. (As always, my books show up on LibraryThing as I manage to add them.)
It's all floody outside; it was pretty surreal. Every so often, the mayor of a town somewhere in this state mentions that because of low rainfall, they might have to start limiting water usage. There then quickly follows a torrential downpour; it's our local version of a rain dance. I wonder if someone made water-consumption-limiting rumblings over the last week or two.
The power outage apparently included a surge which conked out my router. I couldn't connect to it over wireless; I couldn't even connect to it via a regular wired ethernet connection. The thing's lights go on, but it's toasted. I went with Carin out to the Mart to get another WRT54G, and discovered that they're charging sixty bucks a pop. I've ordered one for cheaper from eBay, and I'm going to return the Mart router as soon as the cheaper one comes in.
And so I was able to mail in that "at most two pages" paper which I finished at one page plus about three lines on page two. I'm frankly not excited by systems analysis, and I'd said absolutely everything I could have usefully said.
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