Category Archives: Miscellany

But apparently Roe v. Wade isn’t “rooted in tradition” so my bodily autonomy and privacy shouldn’t exist. Other things supposedly not rooted in tradition… Access to birth controlSame sex marriage rightsWomen having financial independenceRights for disabled folksRights for the LGBTQ … Continue reading →

As much as I do love my job, retirement cannot come soon enough. The weekends just aren’t quite enough to recover from the week these days. I kinda, sorta know what’s on tap today, but who knows what’s changed since … Continue reading →

Funny how we don’t really celebrate it here in the United States of Capitalist Exploitation. I mean, as a kid, May Day was presented to me as the day you left flowers on someone’s doorstep and did ding-dong-ditch. Not until … Continue reading →

So, today we headed to the vet for a followup to make sure her UTI cleared – blood draw, urinalysis, and Lily’s rabies shot so we could save ourselves a trip in a month. Got the urinalysis and the rabies … Continue reading →

ME!!!!!! And nothing went sideways today! And I survived a meeting with a rather hostile client! Got a nice note passed along from another client who appreciates all our hard work! Guess who is still chatting with Makati (even though … Continue reading →

And not a moment too soon! As a result of the app of many broken pieces, I’ve been pulled into more special client troubleshooting than usual, which is fine, but yesterday support was a bit “FFS, status please?” and I … Continue reading →

What a week, but we’re on the downhill side of it at least, THANK GOD. Spent a good chunk of last evening talking the team lead off a ledge – I found an issue yesterday in version A. I worked … Continue reading →

And no early meetings today, yay! And somehow it’s only Wednesday and I have something like 24 hours on the books already! I extended a big damn olive branch to our team lead – went to him with my idea … Continue reading →

So, in the last 36 hours, I’ve spent roughly 24 of them working. Legit 20 minutes after I left on Thursday for my long weekend, all hell broke loose – and was in no way resolved by yesterday morning. Worked … Continue reading →

And it’s very overcast this morning, which is making it hard to be all bright eyed and bushy tailed. I did sleep alllll the way to 7AM this morning – that was nice, and I think the 6AM experiment may … Continue reading →