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Posting from the weekly planning meeting.

On one hand, it's nice to be in these- it lets me know what my developers are allegedly working on during the week. On the other, it feels like a distinct waste of my time, because it's two hours during which i could be doing other, more productive things.

I've got a pair of SQL servers. Things work on one of them, but not on the other. I could be looking at the stored procedures and trying to figure out what's on the one that's not on the other, and making steps to fix that.

I could be writing automation. There are enough things which are automatable that they'd benefit from it, and will make things go much more smoothly for regression and feature coverage if i sit and write scripts for them.

I could be doing one of a number of non-work related productive things. Instead, i'm sitting in a meeting in which i have minimal input.

Temporal Displacement Anomalies

Today, i got up to take Máire out for the first of her morning visits to the Great Outdoors, aka Puppy Potty. It was about 6:30 at this point. Figuring it was early on a Sunday, i just threw on my bathrobe and stepped into scuffabout shoes.

While she was running around, basically being very puppy-like, i went foraging for the newspaper, and was somewhat perplexed when i can't find it. The newspaper carrier isn't consistent with where in the yard the paper lands, but it's usually not too difficult to find.

Then a bus goes by, with way more people on it than i'd expect to see on a Seattle bus at 6:30 on a Sunday morning, and i realize... we got the Sunday paper yesterday. Which meant it wasn't Sunday, but Monday, and damn near time to get up to go to work. Somehow, i managed to lose a day in the works. This whole time change thing just has to stop. We're not living in an agrarian society anymore where having time tied to daylight necessarily means anything. And even though losing an hour last week was annoying, losing a day this week was completely ridiculous. Am i supposed to expect to lose a week next?
*laughs*

I'm thinking that i like the Gaelic concept of something being 'just up the road a way' when applied to time. Things just happen when they happen. Unfortunately, as long as the rest of the world wants to schedule things, i'm going to have to stick with that. It'd be really nice to step into a temporal Otherworld, though.