Are you getting a refund? Yes. It's in Fresno.

Wait, you mean everyone in the whole country uses the Fresno address for a refund? All these years I just assumed that only Californians used it. I R DITZ.

It's all a PO Box in Fresno, but the box number and zip code vary based on what state you live in.

Isn't that the verse about driving the truck with the dog to pick Mama up at the train station after she gets out of jail?

What's odd about that? she asked innocently.

And here I was thinking it was Fresno, OH or something. I have possibly never actually mailed a tax return from a state other than California, I jumped on the e-filing bandwagon pretty quick.

Stay safe, Connie! The radio was just telling me there were high wind warnings for the next day or so in SoCal and the eastern Sierra, too, so y'all take care as well.

Suffice to say that one guy's solution was to pull the document up on his laptop, then sign his name on a post-it and stick the post it on the screen, then use his phone to snap a picture of this and send it to me.

Someone has watched too much Grey's Anatomy.

I think my interview thingy went pretty well. It was supposed to be a 30-minute chat about my background, went on for over an hour. I definitely have a leg up with my knowledge of internal computing systems, and the job as described is something I could do and probably would like well enough. Not obviously a far superior position for me than my current one, which is also kind of nice because now I feel zero pressure. I realized earlier today, it's 10 years since I got that degree, haven't used it much but I'm still paying the student loans, so having a job that used some of my education would be satisfying.

She doesn't expect this to be a quick process - I may hear something by the end of the month, which would mean a second screening that would be followed by two to four interviews or meetings with higher ups. Some of whom I've already met one way or another, so maybe that would be streamlined, who knows. Anyway, process started, I'm not rejected out of hand, that's always nice.

It's not odd. It's simply what goes into making. The. Best. Country. Western. Song. Ever. [link]

Ya know. Except maybe for Johnny Cash's "One Piece At A Time".

ETA link.

And the rain squalls begin. I hope the 6 to 8 inches of snow that's predicted stays in the mountains.

I survived today. 6 more hours of "war room" but we think we caught all the exceptions and have been getting tons of accolades, even from people we confused. Eventually, well feel celebratory, I guess? Right now we're just exhausted and relieved. We now have a federated single sign on for our user community. Right now, it only works with archive's applications, but other services will be migrated. We're just the first one launched, proof of concept. In some ways, our transition being the first meant we didn't have to do quite as many data contortions as later groups will have and got to tailor it. However, being the trailblazer meant we got all the development pains and failures and screaming and crying matches.

I can't believe it's done. 3 years. 4 babies. 2 different hardware solutions. 2 different software platforms. 3 project leads.

Wow.

Brenda, that is my new favorite work story that didn't happen to me.

All right, sara! Should get easier soon, right?