Category Archives: Miscellany

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 →

I have a to-do list that is a good 10 miles long, but I have a very large coffee, so at least step 1 is done! Starbucks was a scene this morning. Getting napkins, I gently picked up two bags … Continue reading →