My father used to decry the fact that schools had stopped making kids memorize "In Flanders Fields".

Via YouTube, Linus Van Pelt, philosopher extraordinaire: [link]

What have we learned?

Our whole family is home today. We had a bikeride planned but it's a bit chilly out so now we are all watching Ice Age 3 and eating pretzels.

Aims, John Hodgman is running around Ann Arbor today. If you see him, give him a noogie for me.

I sure will!!

Hey GC, how are you feeling? You and DW looked absolutely radiant in the shower pics.

Thanks, Laura! I'm doing pretty well. Uncomfortable, which I know is normal for 8 months PG, but nothing crazy.

No day off, but I am working from home. I also get to see Shanie today! Woot!

I also get to see Shanie today!

One of those fancy 3-D sonograms?

Btw, Aims, i'mglad you mentioned your leg pain. I've had pain in my left hip/butt on and off for a few weeks and I'm thinking it must be the sciatic nerve, thanks to your description. And Steph's stretch helps.

so the project i was working on went really well. i've been rewarded by being asked to fix a larger project that has had 3 different owners and yonks of history. and told 'do not listen to what person x has to say on the matter, we like them, but they can't see this straight anymore.' (said comment gave me managerial hives.) I have a month to develop a project plan and do a user experience study, etc. so i start talking to the major players, gathering data, and then take a day off to go to a conference. It should be said at this point that I admire X a lot, to a lot of 'i'm not worthy' ends. While I'm gone, X gathers the tech people around on that day and starts a conversation/action plan about what tech developments will be needed. When i come back and try to follow up with what was said, i get varying answers. I try to involve x in the conversation about possibilities and get a whole lot of 'because you had this success you are the perfect person to carry my idea forward and anything else you try will wind up in disaster.' I suck at this part of the people palindrome. I'm 90% of the way decided that there are too many ownership issues involved, that I should go ahead and submit the user ex doc and get out, rather than spending the next 6 months fighting my way upstream. Or, I could put x in a box with Hil's advisor and shut the lid.

And yet? This is the kind of work I want to be doing, and there aren't many other places I can do it.

People-skilled hivemind, do I have alternatives?

posting just to make it in the top 50.

Did I make it?

Yes.

eta: Ooh - so did I.