Oh, lord, the insurance company's own tech support technician just said to the customer "I don't know what you're talking about." I'd be on report for saying that to a customer.

Timelies all!

Gary stayed home with the little guy today. Looks like I'll be staying home tomorrow with him, as he still had a slight fever this afternoon.

I'm also curious about Kareem's Mycroft book.

In other news, there was a huge power outage here on one of the hottest days of the year, cutting AC to Stray Rescue's shelter. A bunch of volunteers provided temporary foster care for the dogs until the AC could come back on - only to have 20 of those 'temporary' fosterings turn into permanent adoptions in less than 24 hours.

Sometimes, people don't suck.

That's awesome!

Storm cut short my swim. I thought it was going really crappy anyway, wondering if I was getting sick, as I kept getting so winded, I had to take a break after half a mile. Um, no, just swimming a pace I cannot sustain for 50 minutes. But I got a mile in, so good enough!

A bunch of volunteers provided temporary foster care for the dogs until the AC could come back on - only to have 20 of those 'temporary' fosterings turn into permanent adoptions in less than 24 hours.

Good humans. You get a dog and a biscuit.

Helped our newbie resolve a merge conflict this morning so that I could get an epic code push started this afternoon. I am exhausted now, but I successfully ran away from my desk at 4:30 and I'll be home soon. If my apartment isn't too hot, I may make soup for dinner.

I also got a surprise gift and a bonus for helping out with something a while back, which was nice.

My Goodreads giveaway for Cog ended yesterday at midnight and I mailed the books today. Goodreads was good enough to give me the addresses as a csv file so I didn't even have to type them in, just ran the data through the labeling software. I figured if I won a book in a giveaway, I'd want them mailed out quickly so I should do the same.

Next week I have a three day free ebook promotion running, figuring maybe people might want to grab it for a kid or themselves for the holiday weekend. I'll see how that goes.

My laptop is starting to have overheating issues. Are HPs still considered to be iffy quality? What about Lenovos?

Dunno about HPs. I had a terrible customer service experience with HP and have avoided any HP product since.

My Lenovo Thinkpad Edge (i.e. the cheap Thinkpad) is five years old and has had zero issues. The only thing is that the battery has gone from about 8-9 hours to 6-7 hours, but that's the way batteries work.

Thinkpad T series laptops should hold up very well as those are the typical corporate ones. I've thought about my next laptop being a refurbished T series as they are available cheap that way from enterprise customers turning over their inventory for newer models.

Does anyone else think it is odd that Kareem Abdul Jabbar wrote a fiction book about Mycroft Holmes?

I did think it was odd, but interesting. I bought the ebook when I caught it on sale. It wasn't bad, wasn't great. 3 stars probably?

Connie, one I picked up (but haven't started yet) on a recent trip to Mysterious Galaxy is alt.sherlock.net. 3 AU Sherlock short stories. Looks interesting.

OMG, I've done one half of one performance review, and I think I deserve a treat already! That is not true. (At least I only have 4 to do.)