Mall

Thursday: My mom called and I answered the phone. Brief conversation. More sleep, much needed. Was afraid I was getting sick... but once I woke up I actually felt fine. Snow was falling, and I knew it had been since I went to bed. Luckily, not so much accumulation. Shoveling. Fed Oscar. Shower. Dropped a note in the mailbox of the neighbors, seeing if they could feed Oscar while I was away. Down basement and morning practices and drums. Quick egg breakfast. Headed out. Stopped at the video store and dropped off a couple DVDs. Drove to the mall. Picked up an iPod for my travels to and from NYC. Also bought a smaller suitcase. The saleslady was a nice Asian woman. I let her talk me into spending too much. Buyer's remorse.
In to work, and bug hunting. Found and fixed an interesting bug, caused by the addition of a bool argument to a function. The problem was, there was another function with almost the same prototype, with one fewer argument. There were a couple of places there were leaving off the bool (meaning to call the other one), and having a numeric value implicitly converted to a bool. Yucko. The bug list is looking quite tractable, meaning its time for another load-balancing. Stayed until around 9.
Back home, made a sauce out of some leftover vegetable/wine soup + a jar of spaghetti sauce + veggie "beef" + garlic + onions. Dinner. Cleaning up and made some ice-cream and cookie flambé. Down basement and making one last Christmas present. Now to complete the day.