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I just witnessed the high light of my day.. I was outside when I noticed a small bat crawling down the corner of our building. It then flittered around to find a decent resting spot. I wanted to catch it to be our team pet and show Jefe. Sadly it was too high up.

I also had a particularly disturbing dream about work.. more specifically the elevator... while the buttons only said 1,2,3, and 7 I was riding it up to the 7th and the elevator tilted at a 45 degree angle and swung around in a free fall. I woke at impact... it was 5.22 in the morning. Annoying.

Falloutboy might rage against bloopers. Not only was today gearing up to a six hour work day but most of the day (when bloopers WAS here) falloutboy could hear him clickity clacking on his phone texting, giggling, and no keyboard typing.

Yesterday was a shy over six hours here for Bloopers. Last Friday was shy under six and a half. I was going to mention something to Jefe or DK, but frankly I think Falloutboy's soon to be explosion might be a bit more interesting and keep me out of it. Falloutboy will probably go to DK.. fallout boy will go back to his office.. and then DK will come in and admonish bloopers for not working what he gets paid.

*sigh*

Our databases for testing are offline today and so we are cleaning up documents, updating them, filing them, and so forth. I laugh heartily at two documents: tips and tricks, and best practices. I foggily remember meetings years ago about how we are to fill up these both with respective nuggets of knowledge and make the world a better place.

Yeah.

Not so much.

Both documents have two headings: VB code and SQL. Under each are one lonely, empty, bullet point. I laughed, then checked the creation date for the files. November 2007.. I laughed more. I am unsure if this setup is something indicative of our team or being busy.

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Today was quite eventful. Someone's bday with a whole gaggle/herd/murder of legal lunchies and buddies for a mutual friend. I was only moderately late back to work so I stayed quite a bit past everyone else.

I spent my time figuring out this error is not from our code and also a tracker program for peoples status changes on our in-department instant messenger. No more worrying about when did so and so leave for lunch... or on a break... or got to work.. or left work. It passively collects their changes on on my active connection.

I am such the smarty pants nerd. Huzzah!

Jefe left June 17th... and today.. twoish months later.. Jefe makes her triumphant return. I've had a few chats with her and all seems well.

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The rumor is our 'town hall meeting' is a platform to announce all internal development ceasing and all developers become helpdesk or system analysts. The actual writing of code would go to interns, new hires, and consultants.

Ah.. what? I say the sky is *not* falling and people up the scale would have a bit more sense than that.

We'll see.