Plans for today (2025)

TastyReuben said:
Well, I had to work this morning, monthly software release for our systems. I’m no longer on the development side, but I do have post-release tasks I have to do, so there I was.

“This’ll be a very small release, very quick,” said the release lead, “We’ll be done in an hour, tops.”

Three hours later…

What’s the one thing you hate hearing on these releases? The validators stepping in at the end, starting their validations, and saying, “Wow! I’ve never seen it do that before!”

Sigh…

We did get through it, and as usually happens, and at the risk of seeming egotistical, it fell to me to figure it out. I’m the oldest one in the group (ie, the most experienced) and it amazes me sometimes at the slipshod nature of some people’s troubleshooting skills.
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I think SandwichShortOfAPicnic is good at making software blow up...

Troubleshooting skills... If someone lacks the process understanding they'll never be able to troubleshoot it. Like, how can you fix it if you don't know how it works?
 
I’m back in Blighty. That wasn’t the plan, it was supposed to be a weeks family holiday and then I’d stay on to sort some things out in Spain and try to let some of the previous few months stressors wash away a bit.
Unfortunately one of my dogs recently dying left my last remaining dog (her sister) on her own and the idea of putting her in kennels on her own meant I really didn’t want to go.
But the boys booked the time off work and said how much they really needed a holiday (they really did), they really wanted me there and I felt I had to put them first.

We had a great time, the boys loved it, really good family holiday but I spent a lot of time quietly fretting about my poor dog (Dipsydoodle) which got worse over the course of the week as I imagined how sad she must be.
She like’s going there and literally stretches her paws out in the kennel owners direction when she see’s her wanting to be picked up, so I’m sure it’s worse in my mind than in reality.

Plus being a Bichon Frisé they realign themselves with a new human being the moment a treat is given, they are the most fickle breed of dog that ever existed, that’s how they survived the French Revolution and the move from court dog to street dog, anyones for tuppence and if you’re not interested they’ll find a way to engage you until you’re their servant for life 😂

So as she still fully owns her human even when that human is a thousand miles away I came back last night.
Today’s plan is to go and get her as soon as the kennels allow.
T-minus 45minutes and counting 😊
 
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