Hippo, birdie, two ewes...

... to egoldberg!!!! Have a great one!!!

Writer's Block: You’re perfect, now change

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Oh, hell yes! I want her to be healthy!

Done yesterday (20110826 Fr)

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Not the greatest of days. Work on the van came to $100 over their original estimate. While I can forgive them for the wiring harness that didn't get factored in, I am *not* going to forgive them for the fact that replacing the wiper blades cost double their original, computer-generated estimate. And of course nobody called me for authorization on either of them. The latest estimate I got and authorized was for $614.

10:03 ETA: Ford cheerfully refunded the difference. I am satisfied.

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Work was mixed: I got a fair amount of coding done, and some nice conversations, but one not-so-nice conversation about whether a design requirement with unexpected bad consequences constituted a bug. Sorry, "We just implemented the spec we were given" doesn't get you out of having to think about whether the spec might have been wrong to begin with, or whether customers are going to run into the same problem I did.

I did a fair amount of puttering, in addition to the usual dishes and three loads of laundry (two loads is more usual).

Some links in the notes; the most important has already been mentioned above.