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How Was Your Weekend?

  • April 11, 2005 at 8:16 pm

    #165072

    Mine started out ok. Early Saturday morning was my daughter's first soccer practice. A little cool, but a long sleeve shirt and shorts. Then sweats and a T-shirt in the afternoon for my son's roller hockey practice. A very nice, outdoors day, we got quite a few things done around the house in between. A nice shot of the barn over to the right here.

    Then I wake up Sunday morning to this. A blizzard like condition, windy, cold, and 6 inches of snow on the ground. And it continued all day, a little still falling this morning. With the weather so bad, I went out to shovel the 50 foot driveway, just in case we needed to go anywhere. My wife had to go check on her horse and I knew we'd need milk at some point, so I figured I should do that.

    So in 24 hours, we went from a beautiful sunny spring day to a blizzard. Gotta love Denver, but after my shoveling, I didn't feel like anything. I sat around and read some novels, played a little video games with my son, watched the kids outside making a snowman, and basically had a lazy, winter day.

    And schools were closed today. So it wasn't a very productive day at work. My wife is buried and leaves town tomorrow for 2 days, so I had the kid duty most of the time. A little Halo, a little crawling around on the floor simulating a horse, it was some day.

    I know that most of you are getting on with your Monday, moving forward into the week. To me it felt like a holiday weekend, and one that wasn't conducive to doing any writing :(. It's been a few weeks since I've done and articles, and hopefully I'll get a few more going soon.

    In between the SQL Server 2005 testing I need to do. We're looking to upgrade the SQLServerCentral.com site to SQL Server 2005 with the next CTP, so we're testing and waiting for the release. We're looking forward to that one, as is Microsoft. I mean, how high profile can you be besides SQLServerCentral.com!!!!!

    🙂

    Steve Jones

  • April 11, 2005 at 9:53 pm

    #552016

    sounds like a typical melbourne weekend down here in australia....!!

    except we just get bucket loads of rain instead of snow.....!

     

    good to see Sqlservercentral going 2005....will be a good way to see how your site stands up to it..!!

     

    Have a good week !

     


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    Life is far too important to be taken seriously

  • April 12, 2005 at 1:28 am

    #552043

    Here you go, everytime I start to hohumm over the weather I have a look at this and think well it isn't so bad after all...

     

  • April 12, 2005 at 6:14 am

    #552104

    Hi Steve,

     

    What? Six inches of snow and schools are shut down? Lucky...Here in Montreal, we used to walk bare foot in 3 feet of snow to get to school!

    Enjoy it anyway and keep on the good stuff! Your site is No.1!

  • April 12, 2005 at 6:21 am

    #552107

    Here in southwest Ohio:

    Saturday and Sunday sunny and 70.

    Monday pretty much the same.

    But I was at work a good chunk of Saturday and all day Monday. Bummer! I need to burn some vacation days!



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    Jim P.

    A little bit of this and a little byte of that can cause bloatware.

  • April 12, 2005 at 6:25 am

    #552109

    Halo or Halo2?

    Keep on truckin'
    Steel Rope

  • April 12, 2005 at 7:32 am

    #552129

    Enjoy these moments.  SQL Server 2005 will morph to SQL Server 2020 and the kid is going to wish that you were not around (and definitely not a geek).

    There are challenges to having a young family.  There are challenges to having a teenage family and there are advantages of empty nest.  Enjoy the moments that God imposes on your life.

     

    Russel Loski, MCSE Business Intelligence, Data Platform

  • April 12, 2005 at 10:39 am

    #552186

    Halo 2.

    Rented it Sun night and my little boy is all into it. Was playing this morning before school!

  • April 12, 2005 at 11:50 am

    #552197

    Steve,

    I would personally wait for Beta 3 instead of the next CTP. CTPs are not tested nearly as thoroughly as Betas, so you can assume that the Beta should be at least a bit more stable than the CTP. Beta 3, from what I've heard, will follow very close on the heels of the next CTP.

    By the way, you should know before you upgrade that currently updating to or from CTPs is not supported. If you upgrade to a CTP you may be stuck with it!

    --
    Adam Machanic
    whoisactive

  • April 12, 2005 at 9:00 pm

    #552279

    Great email Steve. I like the personal touch. You should do that more often.

    Thanks,

    Mike Hinton

    MCDBA

  • April 13, 2005 at 2:33 am

    #552322

    You've obviously got British roots - the weather is the most common topic of conversation here!!

    My children would be so jealous - winters have been so mild recently they haven't been able to make snowmen.

  • April 13, 2005 at 5:15 am

    #552360

    Hmmmm. you are in sort of luck!!

    Here in Chennai, India I got fried from scorching summer heat and had to beat it with couple of beers )

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