Liese, do what the good people say.
Work got...worse. Doing acceptance testing and something is horribly wrong and no one can explain it. I had to leave (and frankly was theeees close to stabbing the computer and no really being able to focus anymore,) but I brought the laptop home hoping to run some more test. But some of the processes are not up (despite being last told they were up) and that means I can't run the tests. And we were planning on installing on Monday. Hafuckingha.
Dev keeps insisting "but it didn't happen in test!" Well, boofuckinghoo, looky here, it's happening! In the test environment!
So I'm stymied. And really really sick of friday drama.
AND AND...I feel bad that I can't do more. And yet, acceptance testing usually lasts a week. We got the system Thursday afternoon, and my part couldn't even start until today. So really? Not my fault!
Did we discuss
Boardwalk Empire
anywhere?
Thanks! I finally just saw the finale.
Before my worklife went to shit, I was looking at the earthquake and tsunami pictures. And going to googlemaps to see what it was before. One of the things that stuck with me were all the people with hardhats on. And seawalls/faux-reefs off the coasts of populated areas via googlemaps. It's just...telling that this is a nation prepared as it could possibly be. But this, this was pretty close to worst case. And the losses are horrific, but it is amazing to me that it wasn't so much worse. The worst damage is waterborn, and how in the hell do you stop the ocean?
map of live seismic data of Japan.
[link]
and how in the hell do you stop the ocean?
You don't. You build things to withstand the quake, you have massive emergency procedures in place and you make sure people know what to do *before*, during and after a quake.
You will never prevent property loss and even the loss of some life. But I think we're seeing a vastly different outcome because this happened where it did.
It was some big pre-quakes, an 8.9 and over 150ish massive aftershocks in less than 24 hours.
I started to imagine it in Southern California and just ... stopped. I couldn't deal with it.
I really need to stop refreshing the USGS page too.
eta: I saw somewhere they revised to a 9.0. Need to go look again. In the meantime...
Well, yeah. Just sort of marveling at how we can do our best and Japan clearly has, but...nature can win.
I have a wet, demoralized cat. Mister Kitty bath time. It's pathetic. Unlike Devi, who when she fell in the tub got distracted by Floating!Tail! and was fine and having fun until she got out, MK just...gives up. I have him wrapped like a baby in a towel. He's not even trying to fight me. Just gave one mournful yowl when I put him in the sink. So pathetic.
Oh, poor MK. You will dry, I promise.
