I need to go DO SOMEthing.

 I'm having  a hard time breaking away from the computer today.  Partly I am in a funk because B never replied to my text last week.  I should call her, its quite possible the text just never went through or she saw it, went 'well riding at IC with M and J, not barefoot or hoof boot friendly' and figured she'd just wait until some time she is at loose ends for riding and contact me.  But my autism spectrum side, or whatever has been going "she's mad at me or tired of my company for some reason, and I don't know why"   

I'm also pretty close to stalled on my decluttering, keep a cleaner house, efforts.  Almost all the super easy "just burn this or put in garbage" things are gone.  I'll figure something out in a bit and I have been doing a bit of laundry or yard work and crap and not just totally shutting down on cleaning and removing clutter but progress is slow and I feel like I need to get more done.   

I did go out with the pole saw and take a few droopy branches off the Elm, plus got a dead and detached branch that was stuck in the tree cut into smaller pieces and pulled out of there.  

I feel like 9news should lose their broadcast rights

 It is highly unlikely that they will.  Their contracted security guard that shot and killed a Patriot protestor was officially just someone from the local Pinkerton agency so the 'news' corporation can claim they didn't have any clue that they were providing cover to an assassin with the official security uniform.   But I'd certainly like to contribute to a fund to hire a private firm to fully investigate whether someone at the 'news' corp. knew the shooter, knew he hated honest American citizens and encouraged him to apply at Pinkerton to be available to be contracted to provide 'security' to the 'news' team.  

And I want to scream at the UK paper that is at least covering the story.  "Security guard fired point blank *after* the patriot protestor sprayed 'Mace' at him"    Its a lot more likely that the security guard was aiming at the protester first and protestor pulled the trigger on the bear spray as his only hope that it might disorient the shooter.   Sadly the *guard* maintained his aim and killed the protestor.   

But so much for "Antifa is trying to avoid killing people and only trying to provoke 'overly harsh' response to their tantrums."   Oh yeah *officially* this shooter was not part of Antifa.  But clearly he sympathized with their BS *cause.  

Coined a new term this morning.

 Doug Bug.   Trying to make a bit of humor instead of always going "AAARRRGHHH"  for the stupid bugs introduced by the *senior* software engineer who is too special to run tests on code changes before checking them in and even too special to coordinate with the software engineer who was specially hired to build code and make sure test cases work whenever buggy Doug puts in a code change.   

Doug Bugs tend to hit me when I think I'm trying just one new thing in a module but my svn update introduced a Doug bug and then some other code in that module starts breaking on a real-time system.   So far I have not caused an extended outage on an active system but I've had a couple of close calls, when I have been shooting from the hip and not strictly following our protocols myself even though I try to honor them.   My old 'absent minded professor' thing where I forget that "this is active" plus think "this is not realtime code that I'm messing with so I don't have to test on the dev string first"  

Oh well.  It is job security unless I cause an extended outage and the funding agencies penalize us.