I'm sure I'm going to be dinged on this project, because IMO the lead and the PM cave in their own individual ways without any sort of suggestions of moderation. It's fucking Wednesday night, and we need to get another team to do the development. It's not even us! It's a group I have a good relationship with, but this is exactly how to ruin it--by abusing it. For a requirement the business hasn't specified? Nuh-huh. I want someone above your paygrade to strain that.

IT Lead has told us to take a breath. Fair enough. But fucking stop with the scope creep. They had to take the .NET app back through the dev-QA cycle because of an offhand remark from the PM yesterday. Hmmph. She doesn't seem to realise that people need to *do* the things she keeps agreeing to.

She is the fourth or fifth PM on the project. I cannot wait until this is done.

Yeah, that's just bad form. There are channels for a reason, people!

I am beyond fucking irritated with my life.

1. Noah's potty watch broke. On day fucking two.

2. I though it was a battery issue thus went to a target and a CVS but no luck finding the right battery.

3. I did however find a watch repair shop en route to the next Target. Yay! But the watch repair shop noticed that the a plate that connects the batter to the works was broken.

4. I cannot return the watch because I had to patch together the strap in order to get it to work.

5. Noah is convinced he will have nothing but accidents until a new watch is procured (which actually seems true).

6. I had to come home to get Grace because it was time for the nurse to go home. I checked Toys R Us to see if anyone had a potty watch of some sort. They did have one and at a TRU sort of nearby.

7. So I spent two hours driving to the Toys R Us and getting the watch.

8. however this watch doesn't vibrate. It does flash lights and play music. I'm sure the teachers will not be thrilled but too fucking bad.

9. I am now in search of a child size vibrating alarm watch. There is a Cassio fishing watch and a Timex watch that vibrates but both are too big for Noah. 43 millimeter diameter sounds huge. I could make him wear it was an ankle thing, much like a criminal. AWESOME. Can anyone with better google fu find a vibrating multi-alarm watch for me that won't fall apart. We have a Wobl and it apparently blows.

10. Noah especially gets louder and more irritating and silly as he gets tired. I did not get home until 7:50, which meant breathing treatments for Grace and many mini-meltdowns for Noah. I didn't feed Grace her last meal and I want to bang my own head into a wall.

Sigh.

I once read a scifi story abut a society in which everyone lived in separate houses and never went out or saw anyone else in person;

That's the scenario in "Huddling Place," one of the stories that make up Simak's City. It seems more likely all the time.

So all of this run-around also meant that the grading I had to do tonight and the planning for tomorrow will remain UNDONE while I deal with this.

I can handle my fucked up schedule if nothing ever goes wrong, but when shit like this happens, where I spend 4 hours searching for batteries, watches and rainbow-farting unicorns means everything goes to shit. Which is a problem.

I need a different life.

Uhg. Maybe just get Noah a damned cheapy cell and set the alarm to go every hour or whatever. Less headache the TRU drama? Maybe?

I fucking hate days like that.

I am on the google search.

In the meantime, does anyone live near Tonka Bay, MN? Becausehttp://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-1950s-Vintage-Pink-Oven-/160635693535?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2566a229df#ht_500wt_1181

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the vibrating ones are more expensive - but they might last longer

So the oven still works? CUTE!

Beth, that's the one we had that lasted a day and a half.