Ha ha, I have defeated technology and managed to start streaming tennis at a crucial point in the match that's currently airing!

Strix was in Chicago. To be fair, I was too, and I completely blanked that I "met" Plei. It felt so big and it was so weird having to learn to talk to one or two people at a time, instead of everyone!

I have three somewhat random things to share/ask:

1. Would you consider David Bowie Classic Rock? For some reason it is driving me crazy that he is classified that way in a Facebook game.

2. This is literally the cutest thing I have ever seen. A baby wombat and a baby kangaroo (orphans) who SHARE THE SAME POUCH!!!!! [link]

3. I just read a post on Jezebel about zoos culling the baby animals, and it is making me so sad. It wouldn't if I didn't spend so much time looking at baby zoo animals on zooborns-- I don't want to look at pictures of animals before they are killed!

I spilt oil on my brand new skirt and people in another department were just smartasses to me for no good reason. Oh Friday, how very Monday of you.

Well at least it is Friday- I spilt tea down my whole front yesterday and it was un-fun!

I snapped and was mean to one of the developers. Not in my head mean, or backchannel mean. In an-email-to-them mean way.

She'd been asking the same question over and over all morning--twice before I even logged in to start the work day. She's looking at a screenshot and asking me where does she type in the values she has. The obvious first stab, looking at the example she's mailing out, is everywhere. But she's not making that. She's not looking it up, either in the manual, or in the notes I've been asking her to find for more than a week in prep for this very moment. No, she's asking the business user, and the business systems analyst, how she should use the development end of the software. I tell her to back off the business user in a brief email, while I'm composing a longer one saying--use the info from that form I sent you in every field but *this*--you should have notes on that field--I've been asking you if you have notes, but you keep sidestepping the answer. If you don't have notes, contact customer support. I email her this message.

Ten minutes later, she asks me the same question.

I send her a shorter email, without screen shots, and say "everywhere but this field--please open a ticket about this field if your notes don't cover it."

Three minutes later she sends me back an email and says "But if I put it in this field as is, I get an error."

It's not 8:30 yet, but something snaps.

My email looks something like:

everywhere but this field

And then quotes from both my previous emails explaining my conclusion and the evidence leading to that.

We'll see if she's the sort of person that reports the sort of person I am. Her reply was clearly hurt, an "If I'm bothering you I won't bother you anymore..." To which I told her--"I apologise for snapping--it was both unprofessional and uncalled for. But I have never had this information, and I was never supposed to have had this information. I have been trying to get this information for you for over a week, but you have been blocking me at every turn. Please ask an expert for this information."

If I were in the office, now would be a great time to walk down the ten flights of stairs. I haven't designed a corresponding relaxation exercise for the home office yet, especially considering the inside pants.

I really like The Atlantic's gif breakdowns with analysis of the Olympics.

Here's an excellent one on Gabby Douglass' epic night.

ita- I don't even really understand what is happening, but it is irritating me. I hate it when people ask me that same question again and again after I have answered it.

I also have to stop reading comments on Chik-fil-A articles, or I am going to punch people in the face. Not even for being bigots, but for being idiots! How is this a free speech issue? Free speech doesn't mean that you are free from the consequences of your speech! If people choose to think you are an asshole, whatever. Also, these people are free to support Chik-fil-A, as well. Whatever, they are assholes, too! But saying that supporting Chik-fil-A has nothing to do with homophobia, and everything to do with this POOR MAN AND HIS BUSINESS BEING PERSECUTED is asinine. PERSECUTED!?!?!

Uh huh. And the Civil War had nothing to do with slavery.

I'm pretty sure anyone who isn't eating a Chik-Fil-A sandwich right now hates freedom and everything America stands for. I mean, I'm not a Constitutional scholar or anything, but I'm pretty sure that's in the First Amendment. Or maybe the Patriot Act. It was definitely something the Founding Fathers felt strongly about, anyway.

Businesses are way more important than people.