My wife teaches at a school with Independence in the name. The mascot is an Eagle that she says is named Eddie.

Me: show me the pen dance.
Her: what are you talking about?
Me: Eddie's Pen Dance.

She is refusing to share this with others u der the heading "takes to long to get the joke."

That feeling when you're riding in a car with someone and after several minutes of silently sitting in traffic, someone in the car blurts out
"That's what they say."

One week and a day till I get to do something else.

Supren Supren, Suben Suben, Maldeskstra dekstra, Maldeskstra dekstra, Bee Aye Komenco

31 days till I get to do something new at work.
And I just finished doing the thing that made the client ask to extend my contract, or I'd already be doing something else.
I'm thinking I should take some more time off, but as I just had 2 weeks off, it will probably have to be in September, after the contact is over.

33 days till I hopefully get to do something new at work.

I mean, shouldn't it have been "the turn of the century" or "turn of the millennium" ?

Did I really just experience someone calling 1999 "the late 1900s" in a completely unironic way?

00:00 EDT

That was fun.
It was good seeing some of the folks who had moved on to other work and I will be training for the next two months.

First meeting as a subcontractor with the new vendor's team. The other carryover and I are doing the tacky tourist thing. Loud shirts, leis, beach backgrounds, and a ukelele. And this is because we both read Kaiju Preservation Society, so why not recreate the team turnover event?
Most of the new team are people we worked with for 8-12 years, so why not have fun?

My July 4th tradition is watching all the cars stuck in traffic on the road behind the house after the city's firewards display is over.

00:00 EDT
Happy Saturday

Just a weird feeling today.
After 8 years of being dedicated to a client account, today is the 1st of 61 days where I am functionally the only one left.
We lost the account I was on and the contract ended yesterday. My fairly large team disbanded and people either went to other work or started with the new service provider. I'm 1 of 3 being extended through the summer because our jobs were hard to fill, and we weren't interested in switching companies.
Limbo much?

I've spent so much of today talking schedules with people in Manila that my brain thinks it's Wednesday already. Mostly because talking about EDT Tuesday afternoon is complicated when some of the folks are 12 hours ahead.

At 10:20 EDT I feel like I've already done a full day of work.
Mostly from using the last hour to get a another service provider's team to not just perform a holding action and actually realize they had all the information they needed to analyze and correct a problem they should have caught 6 days ago.
Only 71 more days.

The Percentage of the school year done, or rhe temperature?
Seems it is both!

Today is the last day of school here in Virginia Beach, so yea! for my wife.
I should be looking at rolling off my current project in 2 weeks, but ended up getting extended another 2 months, so boo for me. At least it isn't keeping me from taking 2 weeks of in July.

76 days.
It is all against the box.

Ah, the "comforting" view of company logo, which has been desribed by some as as looking like a skull.
So the ritual did not actually result in the bricking of the device.