Love looking at all the pictures! Thanks
Good for you, Liese. Funny how hard it is to say things sometimes.
I am dying of heat prostration, and perhaps from overdoing it today. Took my daughter to school way early (as in 7 am) to send her off to Catalina, then, despite the heat, went to Long Beach with my son's class to chaperone the field trip. I normally love the Aquarium, but today was too frigging hot for anything but popsicles. It is even too hot to be on the computer for longer than 15 minutes or so at a time. I am currently icing down beer for dinner because, while alcohol may not be a great idea right now, cold beer is an excellent plan.
OMG, tonight is one of my all-time favorite NOVA titles: Escape from Nazi Alcatraz! (Right up there with Bombing Hitler's Dams.)
My eyes are leaking and so is my nose. Trees! Why you gotta be doing this to me?
Didn't you hear? It's a pollen vortex. All the things that would have normally pollinated earlier are doing it now, all at the same time.
I wonder what the next vortex will be.
I really hope it's not a heat vortex.
A Vortex vortex would be awesome, though; a perfect storm of boobs, booze and snark.
At the end of our 2 hour emergency status/triage meeting that started at 9:30 this morning, my boss looks at me and just says "How is it only Wednesday?" and my head developer flopped on the floor. He's not a flopper. He's a yeller and thrower. But that pretty much sums up how this week is going.
The good news is, I continued to display my comprehensive understanding of all the moving parts in the system and how they interact and diagnosed and temporarily halted the problem that had cropped up overnight until the dev people could fix the bug. And was proven right in saying a different issue was a non-issue (and in fact by design.)
However, I was also annoyed that I had to pull a stand-up-from-my-chair-teacher-voice
EVERYONE NEEDS TO STOP TALKING AND FOCUS. OK? OK. These are the issues we've resolved and need to table...
etc.
On the one hand, god knows I secretly love putting on my bossy-hat and taking over the meeting that way. My inner tyrant was cackling with glee. On the other, I'd started it perfectly civilized, but then people started talking all over each other (god I hate webex sometimes- it makes it worse) and me. Mainly me, which...yeah, don't do that. Ever. I get everyone is fried and wired up, but no.
I need to remember this next time I'm feeling particularly incompetent and useless at work. And when we do my performance appraisal discussion. Because I know one of the things to come up is me taking on more leadership roles.
BUT DEAR GOD THIS WEEK.
Write it all down now while it's fresh, sarameg.
Oh, right, I can haz egg cream (Burrell mentioning cold beer reminded me. I don't understand how my mind works sometimes, but when it gives me "have an egg cream" as output, who cares?) Mixing things up a bit with caramel instead of chocolate tonight. Delish.
I could really go for an egg cream right now.
