Just a friendly reminder that Press and Beep Me (I'd call this one Press) are really intended to avoid having to post across multiple threads.

I'd blame msbelle and her influence of thread hopping. Though really, I just went rouge. Sorry.

And car registration is renewed. Thank god for driving a maintained vehicle, so the yearly inspection isn't such a time of dread. And if we ever lose the Internet, government processes are going to be hell. Though it might help employment numbers, as all the departments and business have to hire people to handle mail and actual paper again.

My address and phone haven't changed in many moons.

Doing laundry so I can pack. Headed to Otter Lake for a week with DH. Not a great time of year to do this, but SIL has the long weekend off and was going to head there from NYC for dome time together. Complicated with DH needing to do something about his hernia, but that will have to wait until we get back.

Why is it that we have to work twice as hard both before and after a few days off? I'm tired out and haven't even left yet.

Timelies all!

There's this yellow orb in the sky. I'm not sure what it is :)

Sunny and warm today, what a concept. Supposed to be in the 80s all week, though thunderstorms are forecast for the end of the week.(Because =of course= they are.)

I'm back at work, fixing a ton of other shit that is the result of the epic disaster the past two weeks have been (we're all looking at being unable to not put in serious overtime) because my part in this build doesn't come until the very damned end. But they didn't know when the end would actually happen.

And I have cramps.

But I swam, damnint.

Yay swim. Yay Otter Lake. Yay sun. Yay registered car.

Boo other stuff I will not list. They know what they are.

A million years ago I heard about a study that confirmed that it really does rain on the weekends more than weekdays. There was even a theory to account for it, something about heat from rush hour traffic affecting weather patterns.

Why is it that we have to work twice as hard both before and after a few days off? I'm tired out and haven't even left yet.

I was having this conversation with a coworker -- she thought she would use her days by taking several short weeks, and is now regretting it. I think taking my week+ all at once will be better on that front. I'll have to get some stuff done well in advance of the technical deadline, but then I won't have anything on my plate waiting for me.

Short weeks are only good when the workload is light. If it's crunch time, you still end up doing the same amount of work, just faster.

I drove home during a flash flood tonight, and actually encountered about a foot of standing water on the highway just before a railroad crossing. Much more and I'd have tried to pull over where currents would push my car against trees or a building if they got worse.

Word is we got more than 4 inches of rain in an hour (and still coming down). Meanwhile, the local news storm team website shows 55% humidity.

So many head colds/allergies in my department, and me not being able to blow my nose properly yet.