That's promising, msbelle, for sure.

Laura, it's horrible. Totally understandable that they're keeping their kids at home. This is just horrific -- physically, psychologically, and emotionally unbearable, and this regime knows that and revels in the suffering and damage it is inflicting across the board. Zero shame or conscience.

As a community it's good we have both of you!

This! Very much this.

I’m still vaguely sickly. I don’t have a lot of energy reserves and I’m still coughing up gunk. Today is the last day of my second round of antibiotics, which I’d hoped would take care of everything.

I’m frustrated with work because our c-level team has enthusiastically drank the AI Kool-Aide, to the point that AI usage is going to be a factor in our annual reviews. Not that there’s been any explanation on how that’s going to work, of course. And the owner of the company is offering a prize to whoever uses AI the best to increase their productivity; a four day trip to wherever in the continental US the winner wants to go, all expenses paid, with the owner tagging along. (In my daydream about winning, I can’t decide between Disneyland or the new Dark Universe park at Universal Studios Florida.)

If I never hear the term “vibe coding” again it will be too soon.

“vibe coding”

Makes actual testing, at all levels, even more important -- but it's hard to get management to budget for or spend the additional resources, because testing isn't sexy.

Failures and rollback/reversions are embarrassing and expensive, though.

Peeps, my diamond slippers are too tight! My brilliant plan was to go down to the whirlpool and enjoy the hot bubbly water with the outside temperature at 51°F, which almost never happens here. I did at least bring my warm clothes in a bag to change into in the pool-area bathrooms after the spa. Walked in up to my butt, and it was not happening. When I checked the heater gauges, which I should have done first, it was set to 104°, but the current temp was 90°. That will not work at all. Quickly changed and went back upstairs. So that was disappointing. My life is hard.

Oof. Our senior leadership is enthusiastic about AI but that hasn’t affected me in a practical way, yet. I use Zoom’s AI summaries of meetings as the basis for my recaps, but that’s it. And I still take my handwritten notes. I’m sure eventually there will be more specific directives about it, though.

with the owner tagging along

Is it just me, or does this kinda take the shine off?

msbelle, I hope your mom is feeling better.

Would definitely feel weird with the owner of my company…

You're gonna avocado!

I am.

I went out and broke up and threw chunks of ice. If my physical body is exhausted my brain has fewer weasels.

100% approve of self-care no matter the method.

a four day trip to wherever in the continental US the winner wants to go, all expenses paid, with the owner tagging along.

The company I work at is owned by one of my cousins, with whom I spend lots of time outside work on various holidays, and even I'd be weirded out by that.

Timelies all!

Yesterday was another disaster. Mr. S slipped on icy ground and hurt his arm. Gary took him to urgent care, where they x-rayed the arm and found no broken bones, He was given a sling and went home. After dinner he was complaining about the arm, and got disregulated when we wouldn't call PM Pediatrics about it. He called 911, and got physically aggressive with the responders, so off to the ER he went, with me following behind. His arm was examined, and they found bruising but nothing else. He then had another meltdown which resulted in him being sedated. I ended up staying there all night without getting much sleep. We got back to the house around 8:30 am.

On the bright side, I had my stress test on Friday and everything looked fine.