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The first week back at work after my vacation was crazier than I expected it to be, and that's saying something. In addition to excavating my Outlook and Slack, having mid-year review discussions with my five direct reports, and kicking off the hell that is our monthly release notes, I also had:

• Making an offer to a candidate for the senior technical writer position. She accepted, yay!
• Working on the transfer process for the internal candidate who accepted the other technical writer position!
• My boss suddenly having to be out for a family issue, so I needed to cover some stuff for him.
• Ohai lack of localization process, I guess I'm one of the leads for trying to fix that.
• Salesforce Experience Builder throwing a tantrum and giving a 404 page when anyone tried to publish anything.
• My contractor gently telling me Thursday was going to be his last day because he got a fantastic job offer, but it hinged on him starting ASAP. 

So that was fun. I also had my (very quick) mid-year call with my boss: I'm doing exactly what I need to, he's going to work on getting me a promotion for next year, and I need to work on delegation, setting boundaries, and generally saying no. Everyone who knows me well is laughing their heads off at this.

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The Stroppy One gets the newsletter for the weekly farmers' market, and this week's said "It's the start of strawberry season!" I love strawberries, but only if they're local. The Madwoman offered to head to the market at opening and grab some. 
"How much do you want?" she asked. "If you can carry it, half a flat" I replied.

She looked at me. "What do you want me to make?"
"Something, I dunno, but I'm mostly just planning on eating them." And then the Stroppy One explained that left to my own devices, I will eat a pint of strawberries in one sitting. A day later, I've eaten two pints, and the Madwoman has made some sort of gorgeous cake.

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I left the house yesterday to hang out with minim_calibre, and wore the new fuchsia batwing jacket the Madwoman made for me. I received many compliments! And I spilled something on it, and am now deep into a search on how to remove grease stains from polyester. The OxyClean + dish soap paste seems to have done the trick. I think. I need to look at the jacket in bright light.