I think I'll be volunteering for Made With Code later this week when I'm back from NYC.

Being a fan of most things Iron Man and having a bunch of credit at f.y.e., I picked up the disks for the 1994 animated Iron Man series. I enjoy (the first season at least) Earth's Mightiest Heroes, and I was curious about pre-Avengers-movie cartoon canon. Boy, howdy, am I glad I didn't pay real money for this. Maybe 20 years ago I'd be more charitable. The best description I have for this is, well, cartoonish. It is a prime example of the cliches. The costumes, the voices, the recycling of footage, the plot tropes . . .

Well, it was cheap. And will make rewatching EMH for the fourth time much more pleasant in comparison.

Connie, fyi, I had cataract surgery a couple of years ago. The eyes were done separately - two weeks apart, I think - and the interim was miserable. But once I got through that, things got better. I was EXTREMELY nearsighted and now - since the doctor corrected my sight - I can walk around without glasses. I can work on the computer without glasses. It's just annoying that, with two separate prescriptions in my eyes, if I don't have my reading glasses with me I have to close one eye to read something.

I think the number of times I have to stop myself from saying "nothing is fucked here" at work is going up. One of these days I'm going to slip and get in trouble. But it's such a calming phrase!

I'm having one of those Mondays where I'm being nibbled to death by ducks. A button popped off my coat while I was waiting in the rain for a bus this morning, so now I have to buy a sewing kit to take with me to NYC so I can sew the button back on tonight. I leaned against something and got some schmutz on my pants and didn't notice until it had dried. And a bunch of other minor inconveniences and clumsiness on my part, such as accidentally flinging parmesan cheese on myself.

I did call and make a doctor's appointment for a physical next week, so I'm on a baked goods ban until then. I probably should call and schedule an optometrist appointment while I'm at it.

...and I'm going to the optometrist on Friday. Now I'm off to buy a sewing kit before my next meeting.

I keep finding showstopping bugs in acceptance testing.

In a build that was initially to be installed tomorrow. But is now next monday.

I just can't.

And my work laptop has died. Well, not died so much as refusing to function. I'm getting speeds of dialup or less, and I can't even access my work sites. So, off to overnight the thing back to the mothership. No work for me today! No problem. Sure. Not like I'm going on vacation in a week.

Grumpy Cat made $99.5 million in 2 years

Goddamn I am in the wrong business.

I have reached the point where I am absolutely convinced my boss is trying to get me fired. She says one thing in a verbal meeting, I follow up with action items as agreed, and she emails (copying Big Boss) in a panic saying what am I doing this isn't what we agreed to.

I have also reached the point where I sincerely *hope* she is trying to get me fired, because then I would get severance and I wouldn't have to work her anymore.

Sounds like it's time to take notes in verbal meetings and ask her to initial them.