The week sure whipped by, which is fine for the workweek part of things, but NOT THE WEEKEND!!

But, at least I can say I didn’t fritter the weekend away – Mount Vernon fall market fair yesterday and it was lovely. Got some soaps, a notebook, a book, and lots of fresh air and exercise! The book is by Dr. Cynthia Kierner, who was one of my grad school professors, and is up for the George Washington book prize. Fingers crossed for her!

And I had the thought I always have when I am there: I do not understand how people who live on waterfronts do great things. I would spend every waking moment just sitting there staring at the water. Probably for the best that the closest thing I have to a water feature in my yard is the puddle that forms under the tree in the front yard when it rains.

This weekend’s flowers are more gerbera daisies – I’m glad I’ve made this a Sunday morning habit of grabbing a bunch of flowers at the grocery store.

Work is work and fine enough, but of course at 2:45 on Friday, support sends the dumpster fire from a couple weeks back over again – because they don’t have the time to do the analysis. Well, neither do I. Consulting was supposed to be helping on this, and there is gonna be a meeting on Monday where I have to very gently say, “No.”

The long and short of it is that I legit will not have the time to take this case over this week, and QC/Development just can’t be the solution to support’s chronic understaffing – we’re at capacity, too, and can’t create time where there is none. It’s one thing to help out when support is stuck, or has done the analysis and think something is wrong – we do it all the time – but we can’t be just taking over support cases – we’re not swimming in free time.

On a much brighter note, Sean and Jorge continue to be awesome. Sean is slowly but surely understanding he can go upstairs whenever he wants! He napped with me on the bed yesterday, and I woke up to him on the bed this morning! (I’ll admit, I did plunk him on the bed yesterday, but this morning, that was all on his own!)

These two make everything OK. Every day I can’t help but wonder how we got so lucky with these two.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend, and have a great week!