Agile is particularly difficult for tech writers, IME. I don't love having everything dumped on me two weeks before release, but it's not better to be told something is finished and then have it change three times after you've taken screenshots.

So I told my mother it made me feel bad when she said I "won't let her have Christmas," and she was like, "Yeah, when I said that to my friends, they all said you were right." Gee, thanks for saying that to each and every one of your friends!!

I'm pretty sure my mother was saying similar things (not Xmas specific) to my two older cousins (mom's partners in Covid crimes this past summer). Mom finally changed her tune once she realized that one of my cousins was in utter denial about the risks she was taking. I'm glad your mom's friends had your back.

Brownies are in the oven. They have about 15 minutes left. After I buttered the pan, I stupidly laid it on the stovetop, and the butter melted a little from the heat of the pre-heating oven, but I didn't really look at it, until half the batter was already in (and sliding around) the pan.

The worst that can happen is that I'll have some kind of hot chocolate mess. If that's the case, I'll spoon it on some ice cream and call it a day.

Well, it was very lovely to do a Zoom call with Amyth tonight.

I enjoyed seeing your lovely faces and hearing your voices.

Yes. What David just said!

Went to see my parents yesterday to help with computer issues (could not fix them myself, unfortunately). My dad, sadly, is 100% back into the paranoid personality disorder (could hardly had two sentences in a row without hearing about a conspiracy or a person who let him down in his past). It is difficult and heartbreaking to see someone you love retreating back into this shit, especially when it's so hard to get them into therapy in these cases.

My dad, sadly, is 100% back into the paranoid personality disorder (could hardly had two sentences in a row without hearing about a conspiracy or a person who let him down in his past). It is difficult and heartbreaking to see someone you love retreating back into this shit, especially when it's so hard to get them into therapy in these cases.

I'm sorry, Shir. That's so hard.

I’m sorry, Shir.

Yes, David, it was. Since I never made any of the F2Fs, these zoom sessions have sort of felt like a chance to meet people. And they weren’t kidding about having to schedule things. Amyth has a whiteboard on her door to keep all the planned visits straight. When I was over on Tuesday, the next open slot to drop by wasn’t until Friday.

Oh no, Shir, I'm sorry to hear that! It must be awful for both of you.

I'm sorry, Shir.

Agile is one of those things that sounds great but in practice rarely works the way it's supposed to. As someone said, especially with regard to tech writing. Dev gets through the end of the sprint to be done, which means writers don't see the final feature until the end of the sprint. But docs are supposed to be done by the end of the sprint. Had this convo 1.5 million times at my previous workplace. Ugh.

For Christmas, we are doing a full turkey dinner as we didn't for T'giving and my kids were very upset about it. Mind you, they NEVER eat the turkey dinner, so I have no idea. I guess just that everything is different because of COVID - we had one child leave the table in tears (even though we made one of his faves - lasagna) and the other ask where the turkey was. They also wanted to eat in the dining room rather than kitchen, which we did and was fine but again - unexpected. Trying not to make the same mistakes for Christmas.

Glam, kids love to confuse their parents, especially wrt food. ltc will love something one day and call it "ewwwwy" the next.