Election

Well, the election has come and gone and Martin went from a majority government to a minority one. I sometimes wonder why people call elections. Look at Eves. He gets into power and almost immediately calls an election, thus losing himself power. Now unfortunately we are stuck with McGuinty and the Fiberals for the next whole term.

Beats me why Martin did not ask McGuinty to hold off on announcing that we would be paying for OHIP and that he would slash services anyway. He might have had a majority government if McGuinty had waited and announced it after the federal election. I don't get politics.

On the home front, baby jacket is not really progressing and that's because mommy read her book last night instead of working on said jacket. Poor baby is going to be born and have no jacket! I have to hurry up and finish it.

Stupid developer now claims he didn't provide info because the release is not actually on Monday. Well, nice of him to tell me that. Here I was busting a gut to get things done by Monday. Ah, well. Four more months to go! ... and counting!

Boat cruises

Evil Corporation took us on a boat cruise last night around TO harbour and into the lake for a bit. There was food, which was so-so, there was booze, which I could not have and then there was dancing. So, here are my observations.

Some spouses really do look alike. I swear, if you separated these people, I would still know who belongs with whom. There was a couple of beak noses, a couple of long sticks with glasses, a couple of rotund red-neckers. It was bizarro.

People who have had some booze look really goofy when they're dancing. As I was absolutely and completely sober, I was able to observe everything very clearly and some people just look plain funny when they dance.

Door prizes donated by our clients are really pathetic. There were maybe two things I would have liked, but not the hand blender (got one) or the cheese board (got two) or the Xerox bag and t-shirt. We won nothing, so it's a moot point.

The best thing was when it stopped raining and the sun came out making a lovely double rainbow and washing downtown in waves of orange light. It was quite gorgeous out on the water albeit chilly.

Now I have to suffer through the next seven hours trying not to fall asleep and hoping yesterday's ass of a developer condescends to give me some information so I can finish the documentation of his product. Joy.

Just like the good ol' days

It always amazes me that developers think that tech writers will learn things by osmosis or something. They can put down minimal information about something and the tech writer will just guess from that what the new feature does. And guess correctly mind you, or else they get in a huff. It reminds me of the old SmartSales days when developers saw me as the 'girl writer'. More and more I think that Joe was right and freelancing is the way to go. That way if they don't provide information, it's clear that they're only hurting themselves. And the new VP wants shorter development cycles. Yeah, right.

The thing is that I don't feel confident as it is, so I blame myself that I did not read the dev mumbo jumbo correctly. Luckily I remember that Chrissie had the same problem where she wrote stuff and they crossed it through and said 'wrong'. Well then, tell me what's right! There's always Starbucks, I guess.

I need to quickly publish a bestselling novel or three or five. Basically, I need to be J.K. Rowling.

Nice government

Yes, yes, the government came through and Arthur got his permanent resident card yesterday! Oh, there'll be dancing on the streets and champagne flowing! That is there would be, if we didn't have a prenatal class today.

I am now telling all and sundry that I'm pregos. I am still not really showing though. I am 20 weeks, that is half way there!

The little jacket and hat I am making is not really progressing. I have about 3cm. Sigh. Good thing I bought green yarn and not pink, as we're having a boy. I hope he won't mind that one sleeper with pink giraffes. :) I suspect that he will spit up on it just as well as on blue bears.

Bad day for riding the subway yesterday. I swear, you can't make this stuff up! When I got on there was a gentleman already there who was very overserved, but was generally quiet, that is until a woman got on who used a small raisin box to whistle. She emitted these extremely high pitched whistles in frequency of about every two seconds. Well, the man, in a clear effort to quiet her, whistled as well, but very loudly. The woman, ecstactic that someone was playing along with her, whistled all the more. They whistled to one another like that for two stops and then the man got fed up and got off. Well, she continued to whistle until another woman asked her to please stop. At this point Whistler's sister, started to sing at the top of her voice and clap her hands. She got tired of it after about ten stops and went back to whistling. Luckily it was time for me to get off.

Rodrigo is really starting to bug me. This morning he asked me to correct cover letters he will write for himself when he applies for other positions. OK, that's not unreasonable in itself, but he creates such an atmosphere of panic when he talks about 'the future here is so uncertain and there are no new projects coming up.' OK, bud, I know it, but I don't necessarily want to hear about it! I do not need the stress right now. I think I will do my best to avoid him from now on.

Arthur is now a permanent resident. Yippeee! I am strongly hoping that this will lead to a job for him soon. Oh, boy, that would be good.

I did not gain any weight in the last month and that's good. Mind you, I'm sure that I will gain some soon enough. Monday is the ultrasound to find out if it's a little boy or girl. I'm excited and can't wait!

Turns out Lorena is pregnant too. She sent her wedding photos and announced she's due in mid November.

People are exercising in the parking lot of the TD bank across from us. Hm. Wondering if these are TD bank employees and if not, why in heaven's name are they exercising here?