Speaking of LA weather, it rained last night rather unexpectedly. At least we weren't expecting it, but had managed to bring the bikes onto the back porch anyway so we were basically prepared for it. Today is sunny with no hint of rain. Go figure.

So we have all this cold weather, but in England they had a catnado. Happily, no cats were injured.

BBC News - Chobham 'mini-tornado lifted cats in air'

Shirley Blay, who keeps horses at the Jolly Blossom Stables on Station Road, Chobham, told BBC Surrey: "It was a mini-tornado, I can't describe it as anything less.

Shirley Blay said the shed was thrown backwards and broke into four pieces

"It started with very heavy rain, hailstones and very strong wind and all of a sudden, the wind was very, very strong, to the point of lifting roofs.

"Stable roofs were shaking and lifting and my granddaughter went to make a feed up for the pony and the shed she was in lifted.

"She jumped out of it and it just shattered, it was thrown backwards and broke into four pieces.

"We've got four feral cats in the yard and they were being lifted off the ground - about 6ft off the ground - they just went round like a big paper bag."

She said the people and animals who were caught up in the storm were uninjured.

That sounds like some sort of Buffy-esque euphemism: "Well, that'll lift your cat in the air..."

Ugh. Just had to eat a $40,000 error in a client bid because someone transposed digits. I didn't have the fee buildup so no way I could have caught it.

Ugh, that bites, brenda. I bump into this all to often on my projects. I don't get involved in the pricing but when I put together my cost performance reports I find gaps and mistakes. Never to our benefit.

So much fun calling VIP on his vacation in Mexico to get his okay. But trying to explain and correct the error would be fatal. I do feel really bad for the guy who made the mistake.

Yikes! The down side of contracting, indeed.

Speaking of which, two separate firms are apparently going to bid to provide technical staff for my former employer. So I just sent an email to the second firm going, "Erm, you might want to talk to me..."

Had a nice chat with a friend about what I should do, and he very sensibly pointed out that there's no down side to continuing to pursue the position. Nothing except getting my hopes up to be dashed, but that's par for the course these days.

I am popping in to ask- what is the business or academic way to talk about a 'what went well/what went wrong" meeting. In theatre, we call them post mortems, but this is for a nursing school, so it seems like that would be confusing!

I've always heard it referred to as a post-mortem.

We call them "lessons learned".