In baby parenting adventures, kiddo has been a poor napper for the last week or so, but has slept reasonably well at night. This has made DH real worried about when I go back to work (on Monday), and especially when he starts working again (in a month, so everything will be different because baby). It also makes us worried that he's chronically sleep-deprived/overtired, which would be compounding the problem (overtired babies tend to be unable to take long naps because mother nature is a bitch)

He went camping, so I'm alone with the kid for about 30 hours (yes, this is exactly how I wanted to spend my last week of maternity leave, why do you ask?) So my mandate has been "make the kid nap. If the kid yawns, it's nap time." This means that, apart from half an hour right after bedtime, I had a maximum of 10 minutes at a time where I could be more than 3 feet from the kid (I did not know that babies came with pre-installed proximity detectors.) But, by the gods, the kid has napped.

He napped so well that he was up for an hour and a half at 3 am. This is very unlike him, and was deeply amazing for both of us.

Fortunately, canned coffee exists, because making coffee would take longer than is allowed. I've also figured out that he is okay snuggled against my leg on the sofa, so I'm at least not literally trapped under him, like I was for a lot of yesterday.

eta: msbelle, I feel you on the "no one did the job while I was off." It's why I'm going back to work on Monday rather than trying to take more time. I'd just be making my job suck A LOT more when I did go back.

Yeah I was able to talk to boss. The thing is it is really systemic in our company to just not value the detail stuff I stay on top of. It is month end close and I am sending emails about issues I need assurance with and literally no one is reading my emails.

Timelies all!

Mr. S decided to start making noise at 5:45 this morning.(Our alarm is set for 6:30) Of course he was all over the place when we let him out of his room. Great way to start our anniversary...

Yikes Debet! But canned coffee can indeed be a lifesaver.

Went to the civil rights museum today. Feel very depressed about the state of this country. Especially seeing many examples of how violence can be wrought by "authority figures" (political figures, cops, whoever)who decide to ignore the laws and either let shit happen or perpetrate the shit themselves.

Tonight though, dancing! I need to remember to take pre-emotive Tylenol though.

I spent a chunk of my morning frantically finding files on a vacationing co-worker's computers after she swanned off at the end of her 2.5-hour workday yesterday without making sure they'd successfully uploaded for access by the designers whose pages are due today. Did I mention that she gave me two wrong logins to her computer before finally coming up with the correct one? Or that one of the files wasn't in the folder it was supposed to be in, so I had to comb through her drive to track down a copy that could be substituted? Damn, woman, don't send your brain off on vacation before the rest of you goes!

I've seen thousands of people's computer screens in my career in tech support. I figured I was pretty enured to what might pop up. But as I was clearing some windows to reduce the clutter on this guy's screen, I find that his background is a spreadcheeked rear view of someone's ladyparts. "Tasteful" greytone, thankfully. Normally I ignore the stuff I find, but it's kind of hard to ignore that on a big screen.

"Interesting picture," I said in my best "I've seen weirder stuff than this in my breakfast cereal" middle-aged lady tone of voice.

"Oh, I didn't think you'd see that. There's really kind of an interesting story behind that--which you really don't need to hear."

"No, I don't think it's relevant."

"I'm sorry."

I silently opened another window full screen and went about my business. But really, dude, I'm the second tech from my company to connect into your computer in the last hour. Did the last one not bother clearing off your screen clutter? Or did he overlook it?

I figure his embarassement is sufficient punishment, especially with a woman finding the picture. I think a "dude, please" look works better on some people than lectures about professionalism.

My sister babysat for a whiner. She would act like she was sad, and say she just didn't understand whining but she would be able to hear words. Words not whining. The little girl was motivated to communicate so this worked.

In other news, my shower drain pipes have literally rotted away somehow since 1966. I looked under the house to behold a bounteous cascade of shower water falling on the asphalt pad my little aluminum box is parked upon. Huh. All I noticed was the damp spot on the bathroom floor. Reckon if I had a downstairs neighbor this might have been brought to my attention sooner.

The plumber estimates: two guys, four hours repiping for only $2500. I'm thinking about getting a second opinion.

"I've seen weirder stuff than this in my breakfast cereal" middle-aged lady tone of voice.

The things I saw on people's work laptops when I was working help desk support truly were boggling. Like, my dude, this is your WORK MACHINE. Maybe don't save porn video files on your desktop.

I haven't done much computer support. But way back when I was temping, I found myself filing documents in a cabinet that also housed someone's porn mags.

Most of my doctors keep clean work computers, but some have disturbing stuff, and I totally judge them, mostly because they must think I won't see it for some reason. I judge them more harshly when their home page on the browser is foxnews. I randomly change it to the hospital portal for "security reasons" and they buy that.

Made a spontaneous decision early yesterday morning to go and visit SIL outside NYC. It was a gorgeous day with beautiful clear mountain vistas on the 5 hour drive. Went to a fun musical in the park last night, Addams Family. The loud crickets during quiet moments in the play were perfect. It was cool enough with evening breezes. Not sure what we are doing today. Beach? Don't really want to go into the city on a work day. If the weather is nice tomorrow morning I may go into the city for breakfast before heading back north.