Well made it through the work week from hell, (mostly, my day is not done yet)

But I am soooo over my boss and even over the group unofficial leader right now.   I know she and the designated helper on being the conduit to N have been busy and having to concentrate with the new tasks but how exactly does she expect things to work after actual launch if she and H are the only ones who know the process?  They can't cover 8 intensive days in a row with just two people IMO, plus, I *know* the eventual plan is that whomever is on 'ops' would handle forwarding payload requests and things.    But they don't want to deviate from the plan and/or take a little time to explain the process for me to be able to do any of those tasks so whatever.  Its not like I have not been busy and stressing, what with the bosses pet project clocks failing.

I did manage to fix one fragility issue with the clocks in spite of how hard it is to figure out his system so wooHoo.

I have to be more zen.  I like this paycheck, I don't want to jump to a new job with limited PTO and flexibility of hours when I have a great horse NOW.  Plus I do feel like I provide some useful help to the team in keeping things going and I want the mission to work at least a year or two so S, J, etc get data for their science.  Especially S who spent a huge amount of time proving we meet some stupid requirements that the dumb ass bosses wrote up without doing homework on did we need to be that accurate in this or that particular and how hard will it be to show we meet this goal.

But speaking of dumb ass managers.   Top guy will only listen to other scientists and our group manager just refuses to comprehend that he doesn't know that much about software engineering, and will NOT support the software folks asking for more help to be hired; to look at how we could migrate to a more modern system etc etc.    And both bosses have been told that the group needs a daily operations manager since group manager is traveling all the time, trying to find new projects for us to do.  Well yay for funding but we have two BIG *contracts*  where the management (not us lowly ops team members) signed on the dotted line that we will be an operations center vs just doing research level processing on a best efforts basis.   And they have just stuck those requests for a daily ops manager in a rhetorical drawer,  and not taken step 1 to either promote the unofficial leader to being a manager nor to bring in a specialist in program/software team management.  SMH.  I must remember,  I want to help things succeed not for those two cads but for S, and J etc.

I have the top layer of the deck mom had made from recycled wood from old shed removed.  I think dad is kind of like "why are you ripping out what mom built?"  but he knows the thing had rotted out.  I'm actually feeling a bit of "aww its a shame, mom spent so much time on this"  myself but I cannot go back in time and nag dad to apply water seal and do any other maintenance or make time to do it myself and having a deck with sections rotted out where the boards literally would break when stepped on was a liability hazard even if it was just a ground level deck only 6-8 inches off the ground vs a 2nd floor deck like at sis' house.

I cannot really keep up with maintaining the place.  I should bite the bullet and try to find someone who would do some house cleaning and light yard work in exchange for a bedroom or two.  The news channels are nattering often about how hard it is for folks to afford to live in the general area.  I just hate the thought of trying to find someone willing to put up with us old rednecks plus do some actual work.   I suspect it would take quite a bit of sorting to find someone.  And I suppose at some level I feel like "why should I even have to bother,   *I* don't need the place to bring top dollar when dad passes away for my retirement,  I'm only worried about it for the sake of the sibs.