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no, no, no, no
Jan. 5th, 2015 09:41 amI'm not getting sick. Really. No time for it. I take lots of vitamins, drink lots of water, and am actually getting almost enough rest. Not getting sick, Nope.
But...my head's stuffy, my eyes are scratchy, I'm sneezing, and my upper chest feels like something may be going wrong. Bleah.
If I could get off the phone, I could go get some tea. That would help on a number of levels - hot, caffeine, break from sitting at my desk.
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Anyway, work has rapidly returned to normal. I came in on Friday and mostly cleaned up email, dealt with some minor crises, helped out a terrified new TS, and left far later than I wanted.
Today I came in, got breakfast, and immediately got slammed by people demanding I do things for them. One was from a group that I loathe because they don't. even. TRY. Another was a group that just doesn't plan well and so everything is OMG NOW. The last is from a group who try a lot of things, but we're dealing with another vendor and I don't/can't know that vendor's setup and so I feel a little useless. Bleah.
With luck, the updates I made to my Enormous Dev Project will be enough to get this puppy moved to the next stage of testing. I came back from vacation to a pile of notes from the dev lead who's reviewing it. I had to give myself a pep talk about halfway through the list. It was along the lines of "You're not a terrible person because he found flaws in your work. He never, ever says that this doesn't work and it's awful. These are all comments that make the code more elegant, the error messages more informative, and the usability more smooth. You're awesome for creating this thing from scratch and he's helping you add polish to something that's already pretty darn shiny". Take that, jerkbrain!
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It was a usual weekend. We're all VERY VERY EXCITED that Emi goes back to school today. She was going stir-crazy and driving the rest of us nuts, too.
Highlights of the weekend include, but are not limited to:
But...my head's stuffy, my eyes are scratchy, I'm sneezing, and my upper chest feels like something may be going wrong. Bleah.
If I could get off the phone, I could go get some tea. That would help on a number of levels - hot, caffeine, break from sitting at my desk.
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Anyway, work has rapidly returned to normal. I came in on Friday and mostly cleaned up email, dealt with some minor crises, helped out a terrified new TS, and left far later than I wanted.
Today I came in, got breakfast, and immediately got slammed by people demanding I do things for them. One was from a group that I loathe because they don't. even. TRY. Another was a group that just doesn't plan well and so everything is OMG NOW. The last is from a group who try a lot of things, but we're dealing with another vendor and I don't/can't know that vendor's setup and so I feel a little useless. Bleah.
With luck, the updates I made to my Enormous Dev Project will be enough to get this puppy moved to the next stage of testing. I came back from vacation to a pile of notes from the dev lead who's reviewing it. I had to give myself a pep talk about halfway through the list. It was along the lines of "You're not a terrible person because he found flaws in your work. He never, ever says that this doesn't work and it's awful. These are all comments that make the code more elegant, the error messages more informative, and the usability more smooth. You're awesome for creating this thing from scratch and he's helping you add polish to something that's already pretty darn shiny". Take that, jerkbrain!
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It was a usual weekend. We're all VERY VERY EXCITED that Emi goes back to school today. She was going stir-crazy and driving the rest of us nuts, too.
Highlights of the weekend include, but are not limited to:
- Discovering that our favorite Chinese buffet is "Closed for remodeling". Again. Please, please don't let them be under new management and changing the menu. They just remodeled and got new, MUCH better food. Please, don't let this be a sign that things are going downhill again.
- Having lunch with friends at Applebees instead. Yum.
- Shopping at JoAnn's with Emi. We bought a whole bunch of fabric to make her a quilt. It's going to be a rag-style quilt, so I don't have to deal with backing and binding. I just need to cut the squares and get my walking foot put back on.
- In GW2, we finished the main story arc for our main characters. Of course, this encourages me to work through the story on my alt characters because the reward loot is just that good.
- Mt St Laundry was CONQUERED. Mt Dishes Doom was not. Win some, lose some.
- The kids went out and played in the snow for almost an hour yesterday. They only came in when they were so caked with snow that they couldn't play any more. They both slept well last night, I think these are related.
- Finally broke down and took off my xmas shellac manicure. It took forever and I still have little flecks of base coat and red. I also cut my nails way, way back to hopefully prevent the breakage from my newly weakened nails. I love the shellac for the holidays because it stays nice for so long, but it takes a while for my nails to recover.
- Sleepy morning snuggles with Emi. Ox does sleepy morning acrobatics. He's not sleepy and wants the rest of us to not be sleepy and get out of bed and PLAY.
- Potty training continues. Ox is stubborn. So am I. I need to buy Skittles. Maybe a better bribe will help.
