Monday morning

[jameydee]

Teleconference first thing in the morning. No end in sight. Sooooo boring. Here as technical expertise. My part won't come up for ages, but no escape. Must be here. Also, hungry!

In every meeting of this sort, there's always one person who has just read up on something and now it's the tool of choice. He's got a brand new hammer and everything is a nail, whether or not it has a screw head on top. So he's Team XML all the way. Argh!

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Not enough sleep. Belle has been barking at an opossum that has taken up residence in our backyard. She has a high, piercing bark. Got mad and yelled at her. She was sufficiently cowed to go into her "grumble bark" where she barks under her breath, what I call her "indoor voice." That lasted all of 20 minutes. Then I yelled at her from the upstairs balcony and there was the sudden silence of surprise.

Anyway, my eyes are red-rimmed and I'm exhausted. I long to go home and pet a soft, fuzzy bunny.

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[grimmtooth.livejournal.com]

Sounds like "Automation Guy" here. Somewhere he read that automation would all but eliminate the need for Humans in the loop, so now any time we give him an estimate that he doesn't like, he thinks that maybe an automation of some sort might fix all that.

Since he's kind of dense, I've been dropping hints that it didn't work out so well for Skynet. Developing ...