I got my glasses. Yay!

We can once again hail you as a visionary.

ita, that's adorable.

We're pulling code from the build. Or rather, implementing the hailmary configs we put in place for emergency rollback/ parallel ops. The major project for which we've been angsting over for the last year will slip. The failover servers didn't, the backups were corrupt and missing data when they did restore, and no one fucking knows what happened a week later. It's such a cluster fuck that I put squarely on IT not approaching this project with the urgency and importance we kept telling them. We've got another huge code and hardware change coming that cannot slip because of this. Thank god we have different IT teams for that.

I feel bad for the project manager- this really can't be laid at her feet...and now she's gonna leave on maternity leave and come back next spring and it still might not be implemented.

Had going-away drinks for my staff person after work, and thank goodness, this was not a time that people stay out late! Because usually in work-social settings I'm the one who leaves early. Perfect.

sarameg, that's double plus ungood. Are heads going to roll?

Possibly. It might just be one of those one off catastrophic failures, but if it can happen in test, which is nowhere near as loaded as production will be, big issue. Even human error would be better, but since they were trying to backwards engineer the servers since no one was really sure how they had been built and configured !?!WTF!?!? and they need the same conditions to replicate and diag the problem...clearly some practices need changing. There probably will be a come to Jesus meeting with that team and the mission office.

Oh, this whole project is a single-sign on service for all services at work ( think of it as googleizing aps.) My group, archive, is the first to incorporate external users ( and first group outside of IT to attempt to integrate.) All other services back up behind us because we were the proof of concept. And our software works brilliantly and seamlessly. It's the service provider for external accounts that is borked.

Woo, the new neighbors who live behind us are straight up having a racist hot tub party. Awesome. (They -- and/or their guests -- are really loud, and talking about who would enjoy watermelon-flavored beer, and it just got worse from there. Seriously, you move to Northside if you're a racist shitbag? I don't get it.)

t edit Okay, Tim pointed out that the racist shitbag making the comments could be a guest, which, fair point, but still, GET NON-SHITTY FRIENDS.

Oh Jessica, sending massive make-it-not-so vibes.

ita, that is hilarious and adorable. PS was in your neck of the woods, but had kids with me, plus novocaine, plus taking the bus. But I waved!

Not that I'm defending your neighbors, but TJs sold at some point a watermelon-flavored beer. Which I probably wouldn't have tried unless you paid me, but my friend (who has a fondness for trying unlikely flavor combos, esp if they involve beer) said it was surprisingly tasty.

Er, I'm guessing your neighbor's guest isn't actually talking about TJs seasonal beer offerings.

Er, I'm guessing your neighbor's guest isn't actually talking about TJs seasonal beer offerings.

I think they were talking about a real beer, but it rapidly turned into "Who's that for, black people? Do you serve it with fried chicken?", etc. Ugh.