Happy Birthday Tom!

I feel you, Maria. I do, even if nothing has blown up on me.Yet.

I've been on a major grind the past couple weeks and will be for at least the rest of the month, writing up test plans. Today, I discovered I've been assigned basically a third more requirements than anyone and virtually all are new implementations, which means none but the developers really know *how* they interpreted and implemented the requirement and they all worked on it MONTHS ago and can't answer my questions quickly. And whereas some of the other testers have had access to this shit for months, I wasn't available until this month thanks to operations going batshit. Which it still is, but I can't if I'm going to test these requirement by a very hard deadline.

I need to have a Conversation, but my boss has been out due to her husband having surgery. It's a resources discussion above my pay grade that we've specifically been asked to make mgmt deal with when it happens. Which only works if mgmt is present and not worried about spouses bleeding to death.And we're down a coworker because her son is in the hospital as well.

There's a reason I'm a little concerned my application to get hired under the new contract to do my own damned job might have a vein of exasperation and impudence running between the lines. The above is it.

So, this is going on down the way:

A crowd waiting for Donald Trump to speak Friday erupted after the presidential front-runner postponed his rally at the University of Illinois-Chicago Pavilion over safety concerns.

Lots of helicopters overhead, but hopefully things quiet down w/o too much ugliness.

Of course, this also happened:

Jerry Greenfield, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's and a Bernie Sanders supporter, showed up at the pavilion wearing a Sanders hoodie and scooped out free ice cream.

I'm a little concerned my application to get hired under the new contract to do my own damned job might have a vein of exasperation and impudence running between the lines.

That sounds appropriate to me. The vein, not the concern. Probably no one should ever take career advice from me, though.

Free ice cream is good.

And my knee still hates me. I don't think there's any permanent damage, but it took an epic whack. Not really swollen, but bruising is slowly turning ugly. Stairs are miserable. If it's straight for any period of time, getting moving again sucks. Swimming went really well and loosened it up even though I felt every one of the 168 pushes off the wall.

Been seeing Chicago tweets. Narrative in my (very activist) feed makes it sound like counter-trump protesters shut him down.

Maria, that's my nightmare. At least in private sector, you can beg, and usually if you can document that it should have gotten there, you'll usually be ok. Public not so much.

Possibly the most content-free political statement ever, uh, stated:

“I wanted to be sure I got in to see Trump because I believe in what he's standing for and I think he can get things done,” Noles said. “Nothing has been done before and something has to be done."

Yikes, sara, yikes.

“I wanted to be sure I got in to see Trump because I believe in what he's standing for and I think he can get things done,” Noles said. “Nothing has been done before and something has to be done."

It's so Trumpy!

A crowd waiting for Donald Trump to speak Friday erupted after the presidential front-runner postponed his rally at the University of Illinois-Chicago Pavilion over safety concerns.

Trump was supposed to have a rally here on Sunday (while a marathon and other stuff are going on, but hey, the primary is Tuesday!), but it got cancelled today because of "security reasons." Good enough. Stay the fuck away.

“Nothing has been done before and something has to be done."

Right, because... what? Like, Obama has reopened the US consul in Cuba, and increased the numbers of people with healthcare in this country by 20 million, and signed onto an international climate change agreement, and didn't get us into a land war in Syria, and is trying to fix the VA, and is somehow managing to run the government even though the fucking SEQUESTER is still in place so federal budgets have been hobbled for the last four years.

But that's all ... nothing. Right.

Gotta love Jerry Greenfield. Bring some of that ice cream this way, dude.

Instead of ice cream, I may make cookies tonight. Or mix the batter tonight and bake them tomorrow. My nose hurts.

Tonight's dinner was roasted vegetables with organic kielbasa. Pretty tasty!