Ugh asbestos? We have an old house so there was asbestos, including the friable kind, insulating the heaters. Sigh. And asbestos tiles in the floor. Dealing with it was not fun.

Kat! I have a small world encounter for you. I am meeting with an old HS friend tomorrow for the first time in like 25 years. She used to have a yarn store in the Valley and says she knows you. My reaction was Of Course!

Guess I should go watch the Breaking News. I'm sitting here doing a marathon of editing anyway so why not have something mildly stressful on the TV? Oh, hey, I have ice cream. Calories ahoy.

My day has included translating a washing machine manual from Italian, line by line in google translate.

I did that in Czech once. We ended up sobbing from laughter on the bathroom floor. "Filthy underthings" was a direct translation...I still remember that 20 years later. Goddamn, that really was 20 years ago right now. Spring 1996.

shrift, when I got put on the spot by my director to simply describe what I do in an all hands meeting, I basically said "make sure the data's not broken and fix it if it is." Aawwwwkwaaaaard.

Relatedly, I inadvertently threatened my boss today in a meeting. In a joking response to a joking offer to being open to bribes to move over contracts, I kinda pointed out that all the work I'm doing now, that only I know how to do because we thought it would go away (so no training others) with a new system that I'm providing input to dev that only I can, as it is a coded version of me, which the only resource to test is me... I can't do, train, or test after the contract ends April 30 unless they move me over. And I'm overcommitted as is. Undercurrent being the bribery should be reversed, haha!

I got a nervous visit 15 minutes after meeting, seeking assurances I was definitely trying to jump contracts.

3/4 of the family voted. #1 son took an Uber 40 miles to go vote where he is registered. #2 son said he would vote in November when it counted. Of course DH and I both voted.

Random Florida voting report. The last couple weeks I have been in 100% Spanish speaking medical offices training doctors stuff. I had my Voted sticker on my purse and was often told how great that was and how important it is to vote. I don't get involved with talking politics on the job, but there was a lot of enthusiasm, and I really don't think they were Trump supporters. I did have one doctor tell me he was sad to not be able to vote for Biden. Also, another nice thing about these past couple weeks has been Cuban coffee at every office. Yum.

Daaaang. CNN is projecting the Ohio GOP winner as Kasich.

Oh, flea, meant to add, had something similar pop up at work a decade ago. Well known and well liked coworker had taken early retirement a couple years earlier in the big layoff. And then was arrested and convicted for child porn a couple years later. Like really young kids. It was freaky and icky and a lot of people who'd socialized with him when they had young kids had a shitton of hard questions.

Mmm, I want Cuban coffee at the office!!

Have been in Valparaiso Chile the past couple days. Sadly it's been terribly cloudy, so pictures haven't been great (and this is a town full of cute houses on hills and tons of street art--taking pictures is really most of what there is to do!). Tomorrow we head to another small town to hopefully see some of their wine festival.

Daaaang. CNN is projecting the Ohio GOP winner as Kasich.

Well, that's a little bit of good news, at least. I've seen reports that Rubio has dropped out after losing Florida to Trump.

Mmm, I want Cuban coffee at the office!!

Seriously, I don't usually indulge at the end of the day, but the Cuban office manager brought me a cup at 5:30 that she had added some vanilla to and it was so tasty.

Rubio's departing speech was long and annoying. Then the silly pundit talked about what a charismatic speaker he was. Huh?

Not sorry to see Rubio go. Useless twat.

Does losing Ohio slow Drumpf's roll at all?