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I had a dream that I no longer have particularly organized in my head, but: I was in an enormous decrepit old building, and the owner of the building pointed out one room that was haunted by a surly, physically aggressive spirit. Like, you went into the room, and if you hung out there very long at all, it started pushing you around and throwing things at you. I, of course, went in there to see, and sure enough, it started pushing me around, but I noticed this absolutely beautiful piano, somewhere in between a studio and a full upright, and played a few notes on it. It was *perfect*, despite the dust: the best-sounding piano I've ever heard. She said "oh, yeah, the spirit tunes it." I was all "this is spectacular. That spirit should tune pianos." The spirit promptly appeared, looking like an elderly Turkish guy (silvery hair, ferocious eyebrows, ferocious moustache) and said he'd be glad to if people would bring them to the room. I figured this would be a way to keep him busy and not pushing people around.

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I was outside working on some stuff in the workshop, and Monty was sitting on the deck whine/howling at me. It's freezing out there, literally. I'm all "Dog, I have stuff I desperately need to finish!" and she's all "NOOOOOO come in here and let me sleep on your lap" and finally I gave up. She's all smooshed up behind me, between my back and the sofa, but at least she's not shrieking.

I spent a lot of the day chasing a wrapper flaw. Labview can call Windows dll's, through wrapper functions, and someone on our corporate labview development team had miswritten one of a series of nearly identical wrappers. I was talking to the people who wrote the SDK that the wrapper encloses, and they assured me that the SDK worked just fine, so I got to learn how to write my own labview wrappers. Turns out that's surprisingly easy right up until I needed to pass a pointer to an array, and then I was very happy that another person on the labview development team sent me the correct function before I spent another two hours fighting with that process.