Tiggz bounces around randomly, chocolate spilling out of his magic hat...

Fuzzy Logic prints in black just to be awkward

YIPPEEEE! KG's home!

let me tell you a story about how work went today.

last week, in a mad and desperate panic, i was adding extra features to program A. it is a program for doing complex searches, and it takes instructions, so it knows what to do. it is needed very urgently.

Wednesday last week the powers that be decided program A's instructions were to complex to test, so a whole new program, program B, would be written for the job.

this was already mostly written, so this didnt sound to bad an idea.

well, i get into work today, and they are trying to test program B. however, it does a complex thing, so the only way to test it is to write the instructions for program A and see if it produces the same output, since program A has already been tested.

what this means is, instead of just doing program A, which was to complex, we need to do both program A and program B, cos this is, apprently, simpler

oh, it gets better!

5 people have been assigned to do this job, cos it is so urgent, so they all need to start writing instructions for program A. only one of them really knows how to do this! one of them can hardly use UNIX, let alone vim, the text editor having only just joined the company last week!

so, it has now reached the point where program B requires that people who really arent qualified to produce the complex rules for program A have to do this, in order to test program B.

feline is wondering how much sense this really makes

the people who know how to use program A, me and one other could have produced the "far to complex" rules for program A by now if we had continued on our origional plan.

instead i spent all day bouncing from desk to desk giving all these new people a major "in at the deep end" training course on how to write rules for program A.

it doesnt help when 2 of them dont seem to be very good at algebra...

feline decides i need to look for some chocolate now

KarmaGirl pokes her nose in to see what is going on......

You're back!!! ***SMOOCH***

p.s. can we have the nurse's uniform back? feline needs it for a new job...

let me tell you a story about how work went today.

what this means is, instead of just doing program A, which was to complex, we need to do both program A and program B, cos this is, apprently, simpler

feline decides i need to look for some chocolate now

goodmorphing orders up TWO TONS of chocolate for feline.

That won't near be enough, but you can build a castlw with it, and HIDE!

feline tries to work out who has been the most naughty...

goodmorphing thinks since we had a KG sighting, we need to lure wolfie back! HE hasn't been here in ages and ages. And that OC too!

(((((Old Crab))))) What a tough season. I am sorry to hear all that is going down. Its going to be tough facing all those losses at once. They must have all been very good friends, to choose to leave together like this. But that doesn't make it easy for you.

Well, you always have good friends here, OC. No matter what, you can always come here and unload.

I think it is real common for people to experience guilt when it comes to people and pets that you love dieing. I think guilt is a feeling that is not all that far removed from helplessness. There is really nothing anyone can do, yet it is human nature to try to find some thing. And sometimes the only thing to find is something in the past, that is maybe not fully remembered.

Not too long ago, many people in my family up and died. Though they were 'elderly', they chose to do that all within a couple of weeks in spite of the fact that they were living in different states and had no communications. I had a lot of torment, and then when the world kind of fell apart like it did... to tell you the truth I started to feel a little glad that they didn't live to see that. Also, even though Mom was in the crowd that took the great exodus that year, I have a sense that she is here still. And trying to do right by my sister (which has been incredibly hard) I have a good feeling that I have been a good daughter to my mom. It is kind of like a memorial, and a closure. When that work is done, I can move on. I am confident of that. So it is that your mother might also find comfort at some point in the future. And though those people and pets will soon be gone, you will have an opportunity to 'do right by them' to the best of your ability. And in time it will be of some comfort. Once they go, the love doesn't die. It remains and is a comforting thing.

You take care of OC, OK?

BTW, cats being the mystical creatures that they are, I wouldn't be at all surprised if another one adopts you sometime soon. Kind of like it was somehow 'arranged".

OC, I am amazed that you still have your Grandma!  99!  Wow!  What a full life!  A 23 year old cat?  Must be one old soul you have there!  They say that bad things happen in 3's, I just feel bad that you are getting them all at once with 3 souls that are so dear to you.

In another thread of bad news, Pat (T-Man) lost his mother-in-law to a massive heart attack.  He lived in the same sub division as her (to be close to his wife's parents) so the family was very close.  If I remember correctly, she was only in her early 60's.  I've known Pat, his wife and his two children for many years, and I feel so sorry for his family.  She was so young.

On the bright side, though, my sister-in-law announced on Thanksgiving that she is two months pregnant, so I will have a new niece or nephew in the summer!  Also, my poor little puppy who has cushings disease is responding very well to treatment and is currently showing no signs of organ involvement.  He's only 7 years old, so hopefully we can prolong his life a few more years with (expensive) medicine.  Other good news- we sent some more "back-up" material to the co-lo yesterday, so, hopefully, WC will get restored faster.  And, the fourth good news (trying to counter balance as much of the bad stuff as possible) my alopecia areata (hair falling out) which returned a few weeks ago has decided to go back into remission and my hair is starting to grow back (YAY!).

Grand Raspberries back at you, OC!  And, I will keep you and your family in my thoughts through the holidays.

hey i am here!

Hi. Got flu again. Not well. Throat is that rough I sound like Barry White...

Fuzzy Logic goes away to be miserable....

*Sigh* OC, I agree with you about Gran. She has lived long, and judging by her grandson she has lived well. She certainly has earned the privilege of passing in peace, without fear or worry. Some, with heavy responsibilities should probably be told so that they can set their affairs in order. But a woman your Gran's age, she knows.

If we don't see you before Boston, know that our thoughts and best regards go with you. We will keep your place here safe and warm.

OK, no more cats. goodmorphing speculates that some cat will either listen or not to that idea, and then make its own decision.....


Sounds like you are a life loving man, OC, what with all those animals and the good earth to till!

http://www.millan.net/funp/80/friends.html

Fuzzy Logic goes away to be miserable....

goodmorphing reaches out and nabs Fuzzy and drags him back to be miserable in full view of his friends.... where we can keep an eye on him and scold him for not getting this year's flu shot!

goodmorphing ***RASPBERRY'S* OC's direction.

Sounds like you live in near-eden. I'd offer to watch the dogs but the airfare is a little steep, plus quarentene... by the time they finished with that they would have forgotten everything else!
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