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Moments like these are why my co-workers settle in to read my trouble tickets with amusement:

There are notes in the code that specifically indicate the maintainer hasn't written all of the security-related code yet.  (Um.  WHAT?)  The integration issues wouldn't grind our server to a halt if the module actually was respecting access permissions, because then the errors would only be happening for about 3 users.  This simply isn't acceptable, so I've disabled the integration until I can get a better handle on what's going on with this module.  Or stalk the maintainer.  Whichever.

...and that's just one ticket.  It's not even 9:30 yet.  I'm thinking it's going to be a banner trouble ticket day.

CNN reported that Dr. Jerri Nielsen has died. If the name tickles a memory in you, she was the sole doctor in Antarctica when she diagnosed herself with breast cancer during Antarctic winter, requiring her to treat herself for breast cancer until a risky South Pole rescue mission could be undertaken as soon as winter ended..

A quote of hers struck me as particularly memorable; it put into words something I've been trying to say a long time but never formulated properly:

"The things that make you strong, and make you feel as though you've accomplished something, are not the easy ones; it's the things you had to work and struggle through. Those are what give us our depth -- that make us not gray and plain and nothing but give us depth and texture and longing."

Indeed.

Everyone else has had their say today, and I wanted to wait some number of hours to let my opinions fall into place before providing my response. A full, measured, and honest response here will include nothing new to longtime readers of domesticat.net, but which may come as a surprise to quite a few of the people who knew me only as a child or a teenager, and have only recently found me again on Facebook.

First, the initial introduction.  My name is Amy.  I am in my early thirties. I am married. I have, by choice, no children -- and I am not Christian. That last statement is of little consequence outside the Bible Belt, but of tremendous consequence inside it.