My manager confirmed yesterday that I'd be taking on the new assignment that I'd mentioned the other day. (For those who care about such things, I'll be rearchitecting an information set on multiprotocol authentication and authorization.) I will spend the next couple of days getting my current projects to good stopping places.

We went to a nice party for Matthew last night - takeout Chinese food and an ice cream cake. Starting a couple of years ago, Mike added a second story to their house. The kids moved into their new room at the start of the school year. One of Matt's gifts was a new desk for his room.

We watched a bit of the St. Louis-Houston game, scouting our new opponents. The Red Sox and Cardinals have some history going back to 1946, so the matchup is good.

It must be confusing for the people who plan advertisements that will run during the playoffs and World Series. Because they're dealing with different age groups, we get ads for acne cream to AFLAC, video games to Viagra.

The World Series games will be played at night. Interestingly, the weekend games are scheduled to start a half hour earlier than the weekday games. The later start on weekdays gives the west coast folks a chance to get home and watch the game. The communist government in China has a way of dealing with time zones; they don't allow them. With a country wider than the US, they have one time zone, UTC+8. They don't even bother with daylight savings time.