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[Catrin]

I love a good sherry, which is what Amontillado is, I prefer fortified wines in general. I'm surprised they didn't get the reference.

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[Sky King]

That awkward moment when you realize the email you replied to in a not so nice fashion, thinking it was an exchange between you and the DH, actually went to said customer as well. I need a vacation

[ny biker]

That awkward moment when you realize the email you replied to in a not so nice fashion, thinking it was an exchange between you and the DH, actually went to said customer as well. I need a vacation

Oops.

I need a vacation too.

I'd been thinking that the micromanager distrusted the other people on the team as much as he distrusted me, so it wasn't personal. But now I realize that's not the case. I recently started working with a new-to-me programming language. So far I've been able to do everything asked of me. But the micromanager is inviting a more experienced person to our meetings even though the more experienced person has no day to day involvement in the stuff we're doing. So this is his way of saying that he doesn't trust me to do my job. I've produced high-quality work here for more than 15 years, and am still considered less than competent.

I need to gain more experience with the new technology here before I can think about looking for a new job. I try to take it one day at a time but even that is too much sometimes.

Sorry to be such a downer on a Friday morning. The non-stop gray skies are not helping. Nor is the CLOMP CLOMP CLOMP of the new upstairs neighbor stomping across his uncarpeted floor with his shoes on. I want to run away!

[Crankin]

I just saw on the Today show that the DC area has had 6 straight weeks of cloudy, rainy skies. This is usually us, and while last week was bad (cold, too), I still got to ride 3 times. So hang in there.
These kind of work situations disturb me greatly. I just thank G-d for the fact that even when I was 20, I knew I could not work in a business environment. Not that teaching or counseling don't have their "things," but they are different things and more in tune with my personality. I figured out a few years ago, that even though in both of my careers, I obviously have had bosses and colleagues, both are the kind of thing where when you are doing the real work, you shut the door and have total control over your environment. You know when people are doing a bad job (more in teaching than therapy), and I did have people observe me for evaluative purposes in teaching. But, in the end, the stuff you are describing doesn't happen. I did have to work on a team as a middle school teacher, and at times that was tough, but for the last 10 years of my teaching career, it was collaborative and exhausting. I had the best colleagues in the world. Now, I don't really have to interact with anyone, if I choose not to, except my clinical supervisor. There's a few other therapists I talk to, but it's just polite stuff. I actually like it this way, after 30+ years of having to be "on" all of the time. It's hard enough to do this for my clients, and since that is the priority when I am at work, polite chit chat is all I can manage.
Hang in there, NY.

[ny biker]

Thanks Crankin. I'm trying to focus on the challenge of learning the new programming language; there's lots to learn but also lots of free documentation and blogs and developer forums online that I can learn from. Regardless of anything going on around me, I feel like I'm making good progress.

And the sun came out today!!! FINALLY!!! It rained as I drove to work -- after all this rain people still don't know how to drive in it -- but then the winds came in from the NW and blew all the clouds away. Blue skies at last. Of course we will have rain again tomorrow afternoon as a stronger cold front comes through and then it will be colder than average for May but it will be SUNNY on Sunday. So tonight when I leave work I am going for a bike ride.

[smilingcat]

I sometimes wonder. Do we really need all these programming languages? All the variants of C++ (C++, CPP, C#...) for instance or all the variants of LISP (Haskal, Closure, Common Lisp...) then there are those dealing with web Ruby, drupal, Java... okay drupal really isn't a language, its a development platform.

Wish you lots of fun learning a "new" computer language. It's just matter of syntax, personally.

[shootingstar]

Nybiker, hope you will find more learning and ways to demonstrate your strengths. If you didn't have to do programming, what would be your other strong natural skills?

I'm not of the programming language world at all. I can't even do html coding. I always have to check the simplest codes for my blog widgets..

[smilingcat]

I'll take 6 weeks straight of cloudy day over what we have had here.

We have had near or at 90F/32C for 3 or 4 days straight. And alternating with mid 50F/10C. We do two farmers market per week, one on Wednesday and one on Saturday. I froze one day even with borrowed sweater over my three layers of shirt, wool hat and a borrowed scarf. On another day our veggies literally burnt up in heat and I was GUZZLING water just to stay hydrated and trying to stay cool. Then back to freezing the last two markets. Out on the field, I wore just a thin T-shirt and an arm cooler for the top, again drinking lots of water with frequent breaks because it was so darn hot. And yesterday and today, its been miserably cold and wet. Saturday and Sunday, it barely made it into mid-50's/10C. Today is supposed to be drier and temp is getting back into the low 60's. Later this week? yup its back into the 80's I think.

At my house, it has been switch to AC then to heat. Back to AC then back with heat... right now heater is turned on. cause low temp in at night is in the 30's (less than 5C) and when the day time high is only in the mid 50's, house gets pretty cold.

[Catrin]

Yikes! Guess I shouldn't complain about our colder than normal monsoons...

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[smilingcat]

WAWWWW!!!! 57F/14C for high tomorrow and .4 inches (10mm) of rain?! Oh that's right I live in Pacific Northwest. It's green here for a reason.

[ny biker]

Catching up... thanks very much for your support, ladies. I really think that no, we do not need all these different programming languages and development platforms! The stuff I'm learning is database development so in addition to the syntax of the programming language there's also much to know about how the database does things and how to makes things run as fast as possible. I am fortunate that some of my colleagues are very helpful and supportive. I'm trying to focus on that.

As for the weather...yesterday ended up mostly nice and today is finally a beautiful spring day. Before that we had rain and various shades of gray in the skies. There were opportunities to go outside without using an umbrella but you still needed to have it with you just in case. Tomorrow it's back to heavy rain then several days of on-and-off showers. Overall not a great weather pattern. At least there hasn't been anything severe/damaging other that a few trees knocked down by the wind here and there.

They say that warmer-than-average weather is on its way soon. And the long-range outlook indicates a hot summer for us, with more 90+ days than average. I didn't get many chances to wear sundresses last summer but I guess we will make up for that this year. Good thing I went to the gym for weight training last night -- gotta keep those shoulders in shape.

[Crankin]

They are predicting 85 for here on Thursday... of course the day we are leading an after work ride!

[Sky King]

okay this was just too funny and I am still giggling. Our S24O trip had to be postponed due to weather so we decided to treat ourselves and attend the Famous Motel Cowboys music reunion. Donned the rain gear and rode downtown. We are so not night life people, in 25 years of living in Boise, we've never been to this bar. Anyhoo, having a nice time, enjoying the music and decided to do a bit of dancing. The floor was crowded - more mosh pit than dancers and these two very large women kept crashing into us. I do mean crashing not bumping. Finally, the DH reaches out and pushes one of them on the shoulder - the intent to bring their attention to the fact that other people we also trying to enjoy the music. It was a "tipping cows" moment and both of the women fell over! We didn't realize how drunk they were and of course he helped them back up and all were fine. It was pretty darn funny and I really hope they took a taxi home. It certainly raises my awareness of biking home after 10pm, even with my lights. Our ride home was fun, as always, except the 1 bike rider on the wrong side of the road, in the dark, with no lights - now that's living on the edge.

[Crankin]

That made me laugh, Sky King.
I always decide no, when we think about riding our bikes 1.7 miles to the village, for dinner and a glass of wine. I would walk, rather than ride, because I am just afraid that even a glass of wine would impair my riding ability.
Wrong way riding in the dark with no lights, noooooo! I see this a lot in the city, as well as in places where there are large immigrant populations. The city of Lowell, near where I live, has had some major educational campaigns to help immigrants understand the rules of the road. It's also a problem on Cape Cod, where there's a large number of college age workers from other countries during the summer. You hear of deaths every year, and it's sad.

[OakLeaf]

The unsafe riding I see just terrifies me, even more when I'm in the car and struggling to give someone space when I can't even see them because of cars ahead of me, until I'm right on top of them.

Sky King - glad you had a sense of humor about it. Your experience reminded me of when we went to see Willie Nelson a couple of years ago, and some very drunk middle-aged guy decided that I was his best shot at staying upright. It got old really quickly, especially since he wasn't putting a hand on any of the men standing just as close to him. He wasn't deliberately trying to grope me, it was just that he felt he had a right to put hands on me and not on anyone male. I finally swapped places with DH, who somehow did not turn into a convenient handhold.