Yay for intense and interesting convention, Liese, but I do get that overstimulating is overstimulating, even when it's good. Give yourself some down time too.

Speaking of down time, I guess I took some today? But turns out I don't follow my own advice there very well so I've been beating myself up a bit for not getting more grading done.

Downtime is good!

So, here's an interesting development: there was a groupon, so I ordered some vaping stuff, and I like it! The e-cig thing came with a bunch of goofy flavors, and I even like those. Huh.

Jesse, as a replacement for actual cigarettes? If you want to quit you can also slowly decrease the nicotine in the vape, so you're only psychologically dependent...

Trying to get all my work stuff done before vacation, not sure I will.

Burrell, you probably need down time.

That goes for everyone in NC.

8-ish miles from Calli, my office ended up with hard rain and no drama. No weather drama, anyway, but with a giant open-plan office that we all super hate, the only windowless (non-bathrooom) spaces are the two small conference rooms that seat 6.

So our whole department hung out with the whole marketing department while deploying a code change that required several rollbacks for stupid niggly shit that didn't really do a lot of harm but would've been annoying and couldn't be caught before we went to production because reasons, and marketing is now TOTALLY IN AWE of our arcane knowledge and strange programmer vocabulary.

(Little do they know that most of our deployments involve someone saying in the chatroom "deploying now" and then a couple of minutes later, "done".)

Jesse, as a replacement for actual cigarettes? If you want to quit you can also slowly decrease the nicotine in the vape, so you're only psychologically dependent...

Yeah, we'll see!

Jesse, vaping is popular in California for, uh, reasons

Listening to another mayoral town hall. I'm hopeful that if an establishment candidate wins the primary, I'm gonna have a promising green to vote for in the general, so I can respect myself in the morning. (It's insane, 29 candidates or something. Only 3 or 4 republicans.)

Ugh. Ballerina!Surgeon told me something at work, in her chatty friendly way, that I truly neither need nor want to know about a co-worker (I suspected her days were numbered, but I didn't need to know for certain and I definitely didn't need to know how small that number was). Man, I hope that she's on her way out on her own initiative, with something else lined up and ready to go, but I am very worried about not. Why so chatty and friendly and totally oblivious to office politics, Ballerina!Surgeon, why?

Jesse, vaping is popular in California for, uh, reasons

Oh yeah, this is just nicotine.

A call with my PM and his boss got interesting today. PM was asking for some of boss's budget to reward the project team for earning a health and safety award. Boss's response was "Are you high?" To which my PM responded "Well, Suzi is here from Colorado". I did a spit take.