Posted on 06/24/2004 2:26:53 AM PDT by Neets
We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail!
Today In History
1314 - Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce won over Edward II of England at the Battle of Bannockburn in Scotland.
1340 - The English fleet defeated the French fleet at Sluys, off the Flemish coast.
1664 - New Jersey, named after the Isle of Jersey, was founded.
1509 - Henry VIII was crowned King of England.
1497 - Italian explorer John Cabot, sailing in the service of England, landed in North America on what is now Newfoundland.
1675 - King Philip's War began when Indians massacre colonists at Swansee, Plymouth colony.
1793 - The first republican constitution in France was adopted.
1812 - Napoleon crossed the Nieman River and invaded Russia.
1859 - At the Battle of Solferino, also known as the Battle of the Three Sovereigns, the French army led by Napoleon III defeated the Austrian army under Franz Joseph I in northern Italy.
1861 - Federal gunboats attacked Confederate batteries at Mathias Point, Virginia.
1862 - U.S. intervention saved the British and French at the Dagu forts in China.
1869 - Mary Ellen "Mammy" Pleasant officially became the Vodoo Queen in San Francisco, CA.
1896 - Booker T. Washington became the first African American to receive an honorary MA degree from Howard University.
1910 - The Japanese army invaded Korea.
1913 - Greece and Serbia annulled their alliance with Bulgaria following border disputes over Macedonia and Thrace.
1922 - The American Professional Football Association took the name of The National Football League.
1931 - The Soviet Union and Afghanistan signed a treaty of neutrality.
1940 - France signed an armistice with Italy.
1940 - TV cameras were used for the first time in a political convention as the Republicans convened in Philadelphia, PA.
1941 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt pledged all possible support to the Soviet Union.
1947 - Kenneth Arnold reported seeing flying saucers over Mt. Rainier, Washington.
1948 - The Soviet Union began the Berlin Blockade.
1953 - John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier announced their engagement.
1955 - Soviet MIG's down a U.S. Navy patrol plane over the Bering Strait.
1962 - The New York Yankees beat the Detroit Tigers, 9-7, after 22 innings.
1964 - The Federal Trade Commission announced that starting in 1965, cigarette manufactures would be required to include warnings on their packaging about the harmful effects of smoking.
1968 - "Resurrection City," a shantytown constructed as part of the Poor People's March on Washington D.C., was closed down by authorities.
1970 - The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly to repeal the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
1970 - The movie "Myra Breckinridge" premiered.
1971 - The National Basketball Association modified its four-year eligibility rule to allow for collegiate hardship cases.
1975 - 113 people were killed when an Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crashed while attempting to land during a thunderstorm at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.
1985 - Natalia Solzhenitsyn the wife of exiled, Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, became a U.S. citizen.
1997 - 18-year-old Melissa Drexler was charged with murder in the death of her baby. Drexler had given birth during her prom.
1997 - The U.S. Air Force released a report on the "Roswell Incident," suggesting the alien bodies witnesses reported seeing in 1947 were actually life-sized dummies.
1998 - AT&T Corp. struck a deal to buy cable TV giant Tele-Communications Inc. for $31.7 billion.
1998 - Walt Disney World Resort admitted its 600-millionth guest.
2002 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that juries, not judges, must make the decision to give a convicted killer the death penalty.
2002 - A painting from Monet's Waterlilies series sold for $20.2 million.
2003 - In Paris, France, manuscripts by novelist Georges Simenon brought in $325,579. The original manuscript of "La Mort de Belle" raised $81,705.
night all... been a long but good day. Been up since 4..
lots to do tomorrow including catching up on email . I have accumulated 98 messages TO ANSWER!!! not junk mail, not span..
People I know with notes.
That is just one account. I am behind several hundred in each account. Well, you all know. same for you I am sure..
guilt, no sleep may result...but shall try
sweet dreams..
Good night, Dolly.
May I suggest you send out a sort of generic form letter to as many of those e-mail friends as you can.
yes, I do that periodically with pictures.. like an update.. but most of this is specific things re: church; my brother's visit; soon to be travel; various plans, meetings etc.
My life at this point is much too complicated/busy..
night
BTW -- The Terminal.. Tom Hanks .. really good flick..
Oh, congratulations on the arrival of little Lennie! A little red-headed girl! How wonderful! Prayers for all of you on this joyous day!
And HAHAHAHA! about the tape of Al Gore! One would think they would realize that video tape is available of all their past stuff. Are they stupid or what?
Those women in the photo were all my previous girlfriends - I got them together for a photo-shoot
Sureeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Checking in after being absent most of the day.
Hoping to read another report from kay regarding the tiny red head before I turn in.
We attended a political picnic tonite. It was outright COLD. I had on a long sleeved t-shirt, with a cotton long sleeved shirt over that,, finally caved in and put a sweatshirt on, too.
I have another full day tomorrow. I'm off to check the News. BBL
I am checking all the news, too. Will check in later.
Late, late Howdy to All.
Miss M. The bite seems to be a little better, the Dr has me on some pretty strong antibiotica and a pretty strong salve. I chage it twice a day, The ring has turned a funny rust color, I still have the lymphnode swelling in the back of my leg, we'll see how the infection does in the next few days.
We had to stop working on the balcony over the patio, because we had some rain. darn! Hopefully it will be finished by this week end, providing the rain holds off till evening.
Did VP Cheney really use that word? Oh my!
Roomey heard Brit get after Juan tonight. Seems Juan doesn't want to believe our troops have found 12 Sarin bombs so far.
Demoflops, what can we expect.
Tomorrow night is our Republican gathering here. I made a lime ice circle for the punch. No Bit, no goodies in the punch, just straight punch. We have Baptists coming. By the way, what is a Gray Goose martini?
Till tomorrow sometime. Goodnight All.
It must be the week for Pubbie Gatherings. I hope it is warmer for yours than it was for ours. Ours was outside, at a park. There were people there wearing parkas!
Congratulations, Grandma!!! Red hair runs in my family too. If I ever have any babies, there's a good possibility there might be a redhead in the bunch. Anyway, I'm glad all are OK!!!
LOL, great opening! And hubba hubba on a young Mel Gibson.
Son and his family are all doing well. No probs have shown up re the strep ... apparently that is a concern any time there is a long labor, though I'd never heard of it before. We went back to the hospital tonight ... at son's request ... to bring him some supper ... LOL!
Lennie is a doll baby! So far she's been very good. This afternoon we didn't get to see much of her because they had her swaddled tightly ... and she was busy sucking away on her fingers the whole time ... LOL! Tonight she had just nursed so finally got her hand away from her face. She's beautiful, of course! Had hoped to have pictures but we can't get them from the camera to the laptop. We hope we can get them onto my computer once we get home.
We will go back to the hospital for a while tomorrow ... mid-to-late morning ... and then head for home.
Thanks for all the well-wishes. And, Jemian, thank you especially for that beautiful prayer. Made my computer screen get all fuzzy.
I know I have been complaining a lot about my job situation lately. Thanks for listening.
John, I know you've been a contact employee. I just need some advice. The job that I was asked to apply for has not been posted yet. It's been a week. Tomorrow I am calling my boss and asking for an interview. I decided to seize the bull by the horns. I would like to stay where I am and want the new powers-that-be to know that I am serious about this. I am the lead on a project, I supervise others, I test, I write test plans, automation, and test cases. I'm good and I'm fast.
The offshore supervision came to a head today. The liason came by first thing this morning and said that he couldn't talk with me any more because he had to work through my boss, who would talk to me, and then me to the boss to him. In my eye. I talked to the QA manager in SLC and expressed my concerns, she got concerned, and said that he totally misunderstood the conversation. He's to go to them with process problems, build problems, etc. If there are problems with test cases, etc then he's to come to me. (I'm rolling my eyes at this point.) And then I get back to my desk to read an email from my boss, via the Indian liason, with an Excel spreadsheet with 257 questions from day 1. Arggghhh.
I had been answering in spreadsheets daily for a few weeks, then he wanted the questions answered in Test Director, which is MUCH easier. I've had various deadlines, one of which is a hard deadline (a government deadline) which is on Monday. I've emailed him, I've talked to him, I've explained in meetings that the work gets assigned, it will be ready to go when they need it. It's my goal to have a week's worth of work for them at any one time, sometimes I've done that, this week has been difficult.
I've written the test cases for the module I'm assigned. It's taken three months, and I started off not knowing that they would be assigned to people who would need "Click on this button" in each and every test case. So I've had to revise them and that has taken forever. And then the offshore people have questions and I spend my time answering those questions. A grand circle it is.
So I went to Test Director and spent three hours this morning and answered all the questions in there. Then I went back to the spreadsheet and realized that he had just put together all the questions and had made it look as if NONE of the questions had been answered. I just about cried, I do not have the time to go through his @#$^@!@ spreadsheet and figure out what I answered, when I answered it, and where the answer is (Excel or Test Director.)
And then as I was walking out to my car to go to the hospital, he collared me (he was on a smoke break) and wanted my home phone number so that he could call me tonight if there were any problems. I just laughed hysterically and said "Talk to my boss."
So now I guess I get to decide if I really want to supervise yahoos like this and babysit for a job. I like the company, I've decided all companies have their quirks, it's just deciding what quirks I can live with. I think the liason is incompetent and will tell my boss that diplomatically tomorrow. He's been at the job since February, which included a month of training, and still can't make the product work by himself. And he's giving others advice.
I had better stop venting now and wasting bandwidth. I feel better now just getting it all out.
I killed the thread. Long live the thread. I'm off to bed. Tomorrow is another day, it is Lagoon Day for the employees, so most won't be there, they'll be at the local amusement park. Except for us contract employees. Personally, I'd rather work.
I'm off to bed, I'm rather cranky.
When you get the time, I surely hope to see that beautiful little girl. 'So happy for you all!
I've done that twice in the past. When I went back to the same companies, they had improved listening skills.
/john
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