Dear vice president co-worker:

Please LEARN how the system works before asking me to do things that are completly different from the system's purpose, especially after I spent last night until 23:00 doing my best to understand what do you want from me and do a hell lot of overtime to help you out with it.

Also? "Oh, no, so you just worked for nothing"? Isn't the best way to say "I'm really sorry I wasn't clear about what I wanted you to do from the start, so you won't have to work so much helping me out".

Plus? Trust me, you can figure out what you wanted from the data I already sent, if you give it 5 minutes of thought.

FYI.

Fucking AAAAARRRRRGGGG!

Edit: it's worse than I thought. Not. Enough. Hate. In the world.

Shir, fwiw, I've found that one of my most important functions as a developer is to save the users from themselves. Keep pushing back at them just enough to make sure that they have clarified exactly what they want and that they'll get it in a form they understand.

It was a day of empowerment when I realized I could screw over users I didn't like by giving them EXACTLY what they asked for. Not that I use this power for evil, but knowing I have it is something of a comfort.

Theodosia, unfortunately, when I give my company what they want and they realize they were wrong, I'm usually the one who has to do the rework.

So for me, it's a boomerang power. And that's ALWAYS evil.

I just didn't need that today. It's the weekend in about 3 hours, and I just don't have any energy left in me for this kind of screw-ups.

And now, there's a question in a board I'm lurking that I can answer really easily and no one else there knows or seems to remember. I don't like that board much, but I really want to give the answer. But I have to register to give it. Bah.

And Aerosoles just cancelled shipping of the red shoes I asked about! I'm bitter! I'd been placing them with outfits since I bought them.

Aerosoles by mail is the worst! Learn from my mistake, and from lisah's! Don't let them fool you!

I wasn't impressed by Cook's Country. I was all ready to like it, but eh, I don't cook like that. And yet they continue to send me the same damn free sample issue over and over and over...

I love this one of Noah. Such glee!

I think Noah really does have the perfect belly button. It's totally adorable.

Is this the hair thread? Because I want to cut my hair - maybe later today - but I have no ideas other than to make it shorter. Here's a current picture: [link]

I'm going to go back to the place where I had the pad thai and see if they still have the menus with the nutritional information on them.

The Chicago Cougar was a cheesehead.

Is it because I'm squinting my eyes and looking at this picture just the right I-wanna-see-this-in-it way, or does adorable little (well, clearly quite not that little anymore!) Noah look like Kat there?

[Edit: This is SO strange. I was sure that this post was posted properly, with all the words inside it. And then they were gone. How strange.]

Is it because I'm squinting my eyes and looking at

Uh-oh. Nilly's locked up. Someone reboot her....

tommy, I was sure all the words I put there were indeed there, and then they were gone. There's a words-stealing monster loose on the Phoenix board. Either that, or this week is catching up with me and my tiredness is showing. I think I prefer the monster option.