Quickie this morning as Capacity planning has stretched my mind and not much is happening here.
Rennie - I agree with Happy - your values count in your house. If they can't accept that, then they are welcome to stay someplace else. There are also your own kids to consider, if you condone that behaviour in your house, so you will have to compromise on your own kids. So keep your own conscience clear and stand up for your beliefs.
Um - were you married at 14 or somethin? My maths ain't that good.
Ruth - no pasta Italian? Okay will it be Osso Bucco with braised veg? Ragout? Ribolita? Caramelised onion frittata? along with tiramisu and gelato and two gallons of Trebiano rose?
Poor Hershey. I do feel for her, they really do know about life and death and they can't vocalise it. Is there any of Lucy's toys around for her to look after and sleep with? Sometimes that helps. The egg won't do too much harm either. Raw ones make for wonderfully shiny coats as well.
Mel - Saturday afternoon your time. Sunday morning my time. Looking forward to that. I need to put it in my calendar too, along with some notes. Get out there and shop for food. Otherwise there will be two of us not eating this weekend. DS2 wont have been shopping in the past 2 months.
Have my bag packed, my boarding pass in hand, book at the ready for reading although that probably won't get done since I will be capacity planning on the plane as well. Unless of course a miracle happens today - and it won't happen unless I get on with it instead of chatting here.
New mantra: - at this desk the impossible is done straight away. Miracles always take a little longer.
or maybe:
I can only be nice to one person per day.
This is not your day
Tomorrow is not looking good either.
or maybe (short and sweet):
Go away, you are an idiot!
At least I don't have the TFG here, all I have is a bunch of loons who can't communicate with each other and cause chaos with whichever part of the system they touch. This morning so far:
No portal
No development client in PM - everything short dumps - last time it did that the PS (projects team) had loaded data which conflicted with nearly every transport (data load) that had gone through in the last month.
No equipment loaded into the Training client - it was there yesterday!!
And the QA (Quality Assurance client
) tells me I don't exist. Oh goodie, does that mean I can get an earlier plane out of here?
Now you may not have completely understood all of the above, but generally speaking it means that someone, somewhere has stuffed up big time and the system is $^@%*! I can see my friend Andre downstairs doing a good impression of the rhino raging across the veldt this morning. This man is actually French, he has spent much time in South Africa, is a towering giant of a bloke and is Taurean - I have little sympathy for the recipient of his rage, but it is a devastating sight to have him come bearing down on you, bellowing oaths and threats and reading your pedigree to you - none of which is repeated (or repeatable) in the first five minutes. Fortunately it can be in 4 languages other than English.
Gotta go, be good or be careful. If you can't be either, make sure you enjoy it.