msbelle - my experience is that once you buy/refinance a house, all kinds of scams and problems show up. The mortgage lenders cheerfully sell you information to anyone who asks. Good luck dealing with them.

Bennett, I bought for cash, no mortgage though. This may be from a prelim application just to get preapproval numbers for a mortgage. That or the Capital One data breach or one of the other hundred data breaches in the last few years.

Fuckers.

Fuckers indeed.

Woke up with either stomach flu or food poisoning. Woot. Still easier to deal with than identity fraud, I'm sure.

Ugh, identity theft sucks.

As does stomach flu.

I'm sorry the vultures intruded, Katerina Bee.

What Calli said.

And job~ma to you, Calli!

Boo fraud, boo stomach flu!! Geez!

Perl's Date::Parse module is seriously one of the most versatile pieces of code I've ever come across.

Yeah, I haven't been able to find a NPM module to do what I need which is not just parse a string into a time, but also validate that character by character the text is leading to a valid time representation.

For multiple representations of time.

I had the biweekly chat with my supervisor, who adores stats and showing me the numbers that track my work status every moment of the day and how they double check that against activity in other parts of the system. I deeply resent being tracked, and I hate being reported on. My supervisor is fairly clueless about people, and he sees no problem about telling me that my co-workers watch what I do and report their findings. No, I'm not the most nose-to-the-grindstone person and I can tighten that up, but having office spies angers me. I see people sliding through some loopholes, but they do their work, and it would never occur to me to tattle.

All this makes me second-guess everything I do and look at my work neighbors suspiciously. And keep private track of the status of certain of my co-workers and smirk to myself when I see they've messed up, but I don't say anything.

I was asked why it takes me so long to get to actual work at the beginning of the shift, and I said I'm setting up all the tools. It was suggested I came in earlier to do that, I took a deep breath and said, "I dislike working for free." He looked surprised: "If you come in five minutes early to set things up--really set things up--that counts as work and you should be paid for it." Which is the first time I've heard that.

I would probably suck so hard working in a normal office.