Is this article oddly written, or am I missing something: [link] . I feel like the actual meaning of the article is not there. It just talks around the meat.

Man, when we have to make an emergency change, it's the lead's responsibility to collect the approvals required to proceed. And this is true 24x7. Ir's a weirdly random process trying to cull approval from a director with no direct interest in the change, or someone who has never worked with you. And it's a definite flaw of remote, since calling people and texting them on their personal cells etc to get stuff in by a deadline is...awkward.

And, to boot, the data centre is all "what? now?" We were sitting at your desk, waiting for twenty minutes for you to get off a phone call yesterday. I opened a support ticket yesterday in which I said I'd make this request today. If you refuse to do this things on short notice, TELL ME BEFORE THE LAST MINUTE.

And this morning I get "I iz confuse:(" email from the developer who ignored my request until, hey, the last minute, and then puts IMMEDIATE RESPONSE REQUIRED on her email subject line. Should I put VAGUELY TIMELY RESPONSE APPRECIATED on mine? If she doesn't understand the question, and her deadline is 9am Thursday, why tell me at 7am Thursday? Why not, say, some time on MONDAY???

Any buffistas know anyone who works at Skadden, Arps? Just applied there and an inside person never hurts.

What would you be Examining?

Financial Institutions! A shifty lot.

So this weekend and next weekend and probably evenings will belong to studying and yard work, I think I can make that work. Sorry interior of the house, you will remain a pit a little longer.

I feel like that article is written for someone who has a knowledge base that I don't share maybe? I didn't finish it, though.

I really like this idea re: transportation options in Las Vegas. I hope it catches on.

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Blended historic situations: [link] WWII: [link]

I have to say (HAVE TO) that the pink stuff I got from Banana Republic is very pleasing. The pink Oxford shirt (really a button down button down) is so soft I want to sleep in it. And the lining of the cuffs is gingham! So, bonus.

Being able to sort a site by colour or size really speeds choices up--but if you want a medium skirt at Bluefly, they only have a handful. Aren't they supposed to have a deep inventory? What is their business model these days? A place like Modcloth has more relevant choices for me.

I remember watching S&E with my dad. On our little b&w tv. Mustard yellow. Dial. Wow.

I didn't get any of my personal stuff done today, all full up with meetings, some double booked. Ahrg. And a dog&pony show tomorrow.

I've discovered what is more frustrating than a slow swim: a slow swim in which I felt like I was fast. It felt good, at least. But I hate that I can't get it back. It'll have been a year of slowly getting slower now. I think I might be overthinking my turns.

Hmm. Can you change something up entirely to shake up your routine for a while? Switch strokes? Start with the opposite arm?

I went down and looked askance at the lake the other day. Still looks pretty damn cold. I need to get back on the fitness horse in general, especially before this summer. We have two months of camp (read: starchy camp food) and one of tour (read: crappy road food, no sleep, and little opportunity to work out) so I really need to get on track now, before all that hits.

One, I'm going to have to take something for the mild allergies that are triggering in me the wheezes. Not amused with that at all. Two, I might start going ball-to-the-wall, but in half mile increments. I just hate stopping. It interrupts my zen. Tradeoff between performance and mental benefit. Probably 75% of what I get out of the swim is mental space. Then another 50% (I know, doesn't math) bonus is the physical, which is probably also feedback into mental. I've just got a competitive streak. Even if it only with myself. I like improvement or at LEAST maintenance. I don't get annoyed until I see the time unless it was just a bad-feeling swim. Even then, I've accomplished it, it is better than no swim.

I AM GOING TO STAB SOMEONE IN THEIR STABBY PLACE.

Actually, I have all the approvals, and the data centre somehow managed to have the ability to respond to emergency requests from their biggest customer (I think she pushes back on me because she hates me; I think she hates me because I make her life miserable), and our end of the application tested out just fine. But I put the change in for two teams, and apparently their end is fuck all complicated because we've been done for exactly an hour now, and they can't give a thumbs up or down yet.

I started a(notther) 30 day drawing challenge this morning. Since this one isn't gay love, I can technically slip in working on it, maybe, at the office. I noticed it on my tumblr dash because Jasika Nicole is doing it. I'm not sure she has the precise same list I do, but I must be careful not to copy her answers. It will be weird doing a bunch of pictures that mostly don't have to do with people on my LCD screens. Hmm. Wonder how I'll do #5.

I extended Operation Pink to Modcloth, and am quite disappointed. They're weird anyway, but they don't have search by colour. This dress is ridiculously cute and also on topic, but I can't justify it. Damned shame, though... look at it.

Yes! They validated their end of the change I am so relieved I quoted the SPN gag reel on my way out of the email thread.