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                      Charlie Foxtrot is alive and well

It's been an interesting week, in the Chinese sense of “interesting.” First
was the grueling deployment to production that ended at 6:00 am, followed by
a mandatory all-day meeting starting at 11:00 am and that was just Tuesday!
Today was another mandatory all-day meeting, followed by a trivial but show-
stopping bug (read “rookie mistake” made by yours truly) being found in
production and the subsequent six hours to get a patched version installed
(it took less than 10 minutes to reproduce the bug, find the root cause, and
fix it) because most of the operations team (who do the actual deployments)
were flying back to The Corporation Headquarters in Seattle [1], having
attended the said two-day mandatory meeting here at The Ft. Lauderdale Office
of The Corporation.

Then my “self-review” (which was designed solely as some abstract HR (Human
Resources) process, despite the protestations of upper management of Our
Corporate Overlords of the Corporation) was rejected as not being “meaty
enough” (what ever that means) and I'm like … yeah … about that flair … [2]
(it only took Bunny two hours to talk some sense into me).

[1] https://www.visitseattle.org/
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7SNEdjftno

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