I’ve always loved the title’s transliteration.
Nice, simple recipe for vinaigrette: pomegranate juice, extra virgin olive oil, lemon juice. Mmm.
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I’ve become a rinse-the-dishes-before-putting-them-in-the-dishwasher person.
Our dishwasher is getting sluggish… I have to figure out why.
It’s both interesting and frustrating watching geeks be very adept at many things and
stereotypically clumsy in dealing with social situations. Though I’ve gotten a tiny bit better
at these things with age, it resonates when I see the trait in others.
Today is freeze day at work.
Dina is temping today.
My only meeting today was at 13:00.
This combination of factors means I got to sleep in, and got to work at 12:30.
It also means that I left early to work from home at about 14:30, to avoid being sucked into the
fix-other’s-bugs trap that so often happens on the day of the freeze.
This weekend at Lake Shore, I was actually able to say ‘no’ to someone who asked me to dance, without
any other reason than I didn’t want to dance with them.
This may seem like a small thing, but it’s actually quite hard for me to say ‘no’ to someone to their
face without a plausible excuse.
I didn’t want to dance with the person in question because they tend to overlead, i.e., they are over-eager
and tend to yank my arm out of it’s socket when dancing.
So, my most recent project, that freezes today, touches a lot of pieces of our system.
As such, I’ve had to deal with coworkers approaching me with bugs and issues that could be mine,
but aren’t.
The problem is, it’s generally quicker for me to fix the issue in question than it is to explain to the
coworker that it is not, in fact, my issue.
And by ‘explain’, of course, I mean ‘convince’.
I’m not quite sure how to deal with this issue.
Was talking to Jim the other day.
If we were at ITG, we’d have as much ‘fun’ making Mr. Stubborn a whipping boy as we did with
Mr. Nerdatistical.
Now, we’re just too busy.
The problem is, Mr. Stubborn does fun stuff like ‘accidentally’ (read ’stupidly’) checking in
files with important conditionals commented out in code that I originally wrote.
This means that bugs are logged against me, and I have to figure them out.