Musings of a marginally sane feline-appreciating female.

You did it! I did it! WE ALL DID IT!

Super weird dreams last night. Was doing things around the house and kept losing my scissors, so I decided to keep them in my head. Not like, stab myself in the skull, just gently placed them in my own head. (I did stop losing them!) A dentist getting new patients by offering free cranial massages. And there was a third one and all I can remember that it was weird.

We have another call today with the clients from yesterday, but the mean one shouldn’t be there, so that’s something. Plus it’s a half day, so I will be going in a little later than usual, so it’s nice to have some morning chill out time, especially after yesterday.

The thing I’m working on, it’s been very slow going because there are lots of variations to test and and every time I find something wrong, I have to start fresh – which is fine, that’s my job. But I know clients are annoyed that it’s taking a while, but if we give them an untested version and it doesn’t work then they get pissed – even when we tell them “you can have an untested version, emphasis on untested!”

I’m still wondering how the last fix where it got broken didn’t get caught. I looked back at the notes and the original change was referenced and double checked, so IDK. I didn’t test it, so I don’t know if it was a missed scenario or what. But whatever it was that got missed, it’s created a fuckton of work for me, and honestly, it’s a little annoying because there were *two* people who tested the last set of changes on the app, so it really should have been caught. But eh, we’re all human and tired and shit happens.

Well, time to start contemplating going upstairs and grinding those gears for capitalism.

You have a fantastic day!

Nothing like having a client basically say you’re an idiot on a call because they weren’t actually listening to what you said. Big big props to my coworker who immediately spoke up and said, “That’s not what she said at all.”

That was when I announced in the group chat with my team that I was done speaking, lest I say something to get myself fired.

And our account manager…oh, she felt so bad and we chatted later and had a good rant and rave about it all, which was super helpful. You’d think after years in support I’d be used to clients telling me I’m a moron.

The thing I’m working on…finally traced back how it may have broken. We made the change, it worked, but it made things slow, but it seems in fixing the slow, we broke it again. And it wasn’t critical for me to know that, but when we first made this change, it took some tweaks to get it working, but it was working – and that was like, IDK, last spring, so it seemed weird for it to break for no reason.

But I have been able to keep catching glitches in it before we send it out, so that’s a Very Good Thing, and my VP who has been doing a fantastic job of keeping clients at bay while I test, and test, and test yet again has been very supportive.

I had grand plans to get some extra housework done tonight, but I ended up working late, the rude client was still in my head, and I was tired – so I got the daily stuff done around the house at least, halfassed some yoga to keep the streak alive, and now I am having a beer.

Thank god tomorrow is Friday, and a half day, and if my 12:30 meeting runs long, I have a hard stop at 1:45 PM.

And the good news is, today is over and I never have to do today again. .

Weird thing to announce, I know, but supply chains being what they are and people attempting to treat Covid with OTC cold and flu meds – finding any was a damn accomplishment. It finally occurred to me to check Amazon and I now have a box of 50 tablets. Each individually wrapped, LMAO. But it’s the only damn decongestant I can tolerate, OTC or otherwise, AND NOW I HAVE SOME, AND NOT BECAUSE I AM TRYING TO SELF TREAT COVID!

And in other weird supply things, there appears to have been a run on frozen potatoes at my market. Felt like a conquering hero managing to snag the very last bag of tater tots today. Not sure if the market just didn’t get their regular shipment or if there is some potato based holiday in the immediate future that I am unaware of. If there is a potato based holiday around the corner, WHY WAS I NOT INFORMED?

It’s really strange that we’re still having supply chain problems crop up given that I have repeatedly been told that Covid has ended.

I am running on very little sleep, because my brain decided it would be great to have a party when I went to bed. Once I fell asleep, I was good, but getting there…damn.

Even Lily knew I was struggling and came in and flung herself across my legs in an attempt to help. She’s a very good kitty.

Perhaps it’s time to start doing that before bed yoga routine on my app…

But, I have a metric fuckton of cold brew available to me, I can take a nap at lunch if needed, and nothing critical is due in the immediate future so I can go nice and slow today.

You have a great day and I hope you’re not taping your eyelids open with scotch tape.

Teladoc is such a fantastic concept and so damn hit or miss in reality. Went to the market to pick up this mystery prescription to discover I’d been prescribed an OTC drug, which I had already told the doctor the market did NOT have in stock, but I guess they thought the pharmacy could conjure up a box out of nowhere. And a $105 steroid spray that I cannot take. (I remembered to ask what was in the spray before paying, thank god.)

Ugh.

Starts with a shooting, there is no sun, and my motivation is net negative today.

I did finally make the damn Teladoc appointment I was going to make three days ago and the long and short of it is if you can’t tolerate prescription decongestants and steroid sprays, and the OTC meds you *can* tolerate are out of stock everywhere – you’re just fucked. (I swear, I could hear the practitioners brain short circuit when I said “I’m sorry, I can’t tolerate prescription decongestants.”) Though they apparently called something in anyway 4 hours ago per the email, but I’ve gotten no notification from the pharmacy, so IDK.

And I somehow bashed/twisted/strained my finger on something earlier today and I have no idea what or how, but OW?

And I’m feeling super stressed today for reasons I just can’t nail down. Not anxious, just…stressed?

But I’ve knocked out the to-do list for the day, done the crossword (40 minutes, but I needed 3 hints) and done some yoga, so that’s something.

Another day, another mass shooting. This time at a dance studio in Monterey Park, California in the midst of Lunar New Year celebrations. Today’s festival has been canceled.

We don’t know the motive, and the suspect is still at large, but I know enough about this country to know this: nothing will change.

We’ll get thoughts and prayers and some appropriate rhetoric, but absolutely nothing will change.

The folks that could do something won’t, because the right thinks it’s just fine if not great, and the left lacks the political will.

It’s a fucking travesty.

I do understand how weather works and not every day is gonna be bright and sunshiny, but my lord it is SO grey and depressing out there today. Just makes you want to go back to bed, and I so very much want to go back to bed.

On the work front, yesterday I guaranteed my job for another day by giving my developer more work to do for me to check on Monday, LOL.

This week we had our annual kick off “go team go” meetings – by all accounts, 2022 went well for us, but the true proof on that will be in the bonus numbers – and you’d think the kick off meeting would be a great time to announce that, but noooooo, they don’t announce that until usually the first or second week of February. I WANNA KNOW NOW.

And despite these meetings and the general upbeat attitude in them – watching all these big tech sector layoffs has me very nervous. I mean, my company is tech, but not like Google or Facebook tech, but still… Last fall when we had our department meetings, I flat out asked that given that the Fed is determined to throw us into a global recession, were we going to be looking at layoffs and they said no, but yeah, can’t help but be nervous.

So, that has me ruminating a lot on how to best be ready for everything to go sideways, which is fun!

But, it is what it is, and whatever happens, I’ll muck through somehow.

You have a lovely day.

You did it!!!! Awesome job! I legit had to double check that it was really Friday this morning cause my days have been all effed up all week.

Today’s excitement is testing a Very Important App that has been super fucking twitchy all damn week and I’ve had to send it back to dev multiple times already and I’m worried I’m gonna miss something. The worst bit is it’s an app that’s been fine *forever* and we made a change because one client “didn’t like it” and it’s been a cascading shitshow ever since.

But hey, job security I guess!

You have a great Friday and don’t change shit that isn’t actually broken!

Totally bummed for New Zealand, but Jacinda Ardern is totally the type of leader who knows what the job requires and when she doesn’t have it anymore and won’t hang on until she collapses just for the sake of power. I hope whatever is next for her is great. (And I just saw a snip from her press conference and she looks tired as hell – I don’t blame her one bit.)

The world needs so many more leaders like her. Kindness, empathy, and compassion should be what we look for in all our leaders.

In completely unrelated FUN things, I have a raging sinus infection. Kept thinking “oh it’s the weather changing constantly” but no, it is not. And it’s not Covid either, yay! And it’s been 4 years since the last one, so yeah, it’s due, LOL. So, we’ll be getting in touch with Teladoc later today, cause the last thing I need is this moving into my ears or teeth. The question is – will I get an NP who understands that a 50 year old woman knows when she has a sinus infection?

Well, time to go make the money to pay the Teladoc – you have a great day hopefully not involving medical professionals, LOL.