July 20, 2012
Dear Everyone:
When you are up to your armpits in
alligators, it is sometimes difficult
to remember that your main objective is to drain the swamp.
We continue to hurl forward in “testing” at breakneck speed.
Most often heard:
“That’s not a defect; that’s an enhancement!”
Translation: We don’t have
time to fix it now. We’ll
put it into Production now, knowing that it’s broken.
When we do fix it, we’ll trumpet that it’s an Improvement.
(Who, I wonder, do they think they’re kidding?)
In other words, Situation Normal.
In the meantime, I have finally made it all the way through “Test Script
#5”, “Ludmilla’s” beloved Test Script which covers “everything from soup
to nuts” (whittled it down from 520 individual steps to a mere 435) and
takes, literally, days to complete
However, testing “will not”
take days. Testing will take
no more than eight hours.
Because the Powers That Be have already decreed that testing
cannot take more than said
eight hours, on a Saturday; and the system will be back up and running
when people arrive for work Monday morning.
Wherever in the world, literally, that happens to be.
So there.
All of which will take place after I get back from “Vacation”.
Yes, even Unemployed People get to take Vacation, as long as you keep in
mind that it’s not paid
Vacation.
“Jeannie” and I will leave, bright and early, Monday morning to fly to
New York where “Alice” will be hosting an assemblage of the “Wild and
Woolly Wood Women”. Some of
these women have last names like “Harlequin” and “Percival”, but they’re
still “Wood Women”.
We plan to hang out together, take in a play or two and a
Broadway
musical and not think about work for a whole week.
Plus, “Alice’s” place has a pond to cool off in.
And no alligators.
This means, of course, that there will be no Letter next week.
The birds and the squirrels (and the
Jerusalem Crickets) will
have to fend for themselves in my absence.
“Jeannie” is looking for a cat sitter, if anyone wants to
volunteer. Everyone talk
among yourselves until I get back.
Love, as always,
Pete
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