TOLD YOU.

Yesterday I suggested we take certain steps to determine the root cause for a problem, and I got shut down. I asked the incident manager how to deal with the request for the root cause since "we" had decided not to investigate any more, and he told me to not even mention root cause, just talk about our workaround.

Well, I just pulled over the coals on an IT-wide meeting on the root cause, including by my boss, BECAUSE THAT DECISION WAS ILL-CONSIDERED. I don't get to throw my manager under the bus, I just get to look stupid. Thanks, guys! That was in no way entirely predictable. At least the incident manager agrees that's what I said would happen. Doesn't make me feel better about it happening, though.

Ugh, ita.

Yay for Sparky's DH!

I'm hungry, and I don't have nearly as many crackers at work as I thought I did. Boo.

Would Matilda like a taxidermied squirrel? I hear the Blogess could help her out.

Heh - we've got a taxidermied mouse in the house, much like the one on the Bloggess' book cover. It's actually a Hamlet mouse with a little ruff around its neck and holding a little mousey Yorick skull.

She now has a taxidermied robot mouse.

Since she's using it for her blog, she's decided it's tax deductible.

This is why IRS staff burn out early, isn't it?

I just received an email with the subject line: "insert logo here"

text of the email was an announcement of student awards.

Woohoo Geneva job!

I totally have the ASMR thing too! Until the TAL piece that I heard a couple of weeks ago I thought everyone had it. I don't get it from all whispering, lip smacking, tongue clicking and some other sounds set my teeth on edge.

For me, it's that nervous finger-tapping...really makes me want to break the tapper's hand(I had several instructors that did it too.)

Woohoo, Sparky, that's great news!

My sister raised a baby squirrel that was, hm, must have been injured or something to have come into her possession, I forget that part. Used to like to perch on her head. It eventually went back into the "wild" of the Portland tree canopy.

New US$100 bill in circulation 10/8 - Boing Boing

The new US$100 bill will go into circulation on October 8, 2013. New security features include a "3-D Security Ribbon" woven into the paper. The image changes from bells to 100s with the viewing angle, and "color-shifting" bell graphic that changes from copper to green, "an effect which makes the bell seem to appear and disappear within the (copper-colored) inkwell."

Please tell me Batman is on the new $100 bill.

(Seriously, about 2 hours ago at work we were discussing currency, and how you don't have to be a president to be on the bill, thank you B. Franklin. So I said Batman should be on the $20, and Chatty said that would be too confusing, since Jackson is crazier than Batman.)