We've just started our spring registration period at work. Generally, I like registration because we're busy and there's more interaction with students (which is not always positive, and sometimes more one-sided than I'd like, but generally positive).

What takes away from it is when we have to shut the whole thing down because of a server error which wasn't corrected until after noon. We wound up just moving everything back a day, which was a pretty easy solution based on events. Still, it a definite hip deep in pie sort of day.

Luckily, I got to unwind after work at the Barenaked Ladies show. It was the usual good time, I liked the songs from the new album, and they played "Grade 9," which is always a treat thanks to the riff from "Tom Sawyer." It's like the Canadian rock equivalent of lobster stuffed with tacos. They closed with "Brian Wilson," encored with a couple of newer songs, and - bam! second encore! - with "If I Had $1000000."

Opening act was Mike Doughty's Band. Don't know how it measured against his stuff with Soul Coughing, but he was a solid opening act. Certainly better than the woman who opened for David Grey.