Well, the “General Admin” bucket for today comment was, indeed, “Herding cats.”

I've decided my weekly time sheet needs a "herding cats" category.

Another Thursday, another "Query Store found a query being executed over 1,700 times per minute, driving CPU to 80%+" story. Long live Query Store. Enable Query Store.

New Outlook lasted less than 24 hours. I cannot.

Today, New Crappy Outlook has decided not to show reminders for any meetings, so I've been late to every meeting. So not only can Teams not remind me of upcoming meetings, my new email/calendar tool can't either. Yay productivity?

Moving to the "New" Outlook is going to be the death of me.

After traveling this week, opinion: Reform DHS and ICE. I want basic human rights upheld and I want TSA paid. Travel, for most of us, is a privilege and not a right. If you choose to travel, show up early, be kind and respectful, and thank the agents that ARE able to show up to work unpaid.

1 hour, 25 minutes from door to clearing TSA Pre. Thank your TSA agents today!

Waited in line 30 minutes to get to the point where they split TSA Pre and General up. This is TSA Pre south line right now.

Get to ATL earlier than you would ever imagine you need to.

Great looking crowd for my Busy talk. Hoping I can help more people be bored once in a while! #FABSQLCON26

I’m up! Presenting “Busy is a 4-Letter Word” in C101 at 11:30 am! #FABSQLCON26

Me, in the coffee shop, wondering how the barista knew my name without asking me. Me, after having a sip of coffee: I’m wearing my conference badge. 🤣

Had a fantastic day one at #FABSQLCON26!

Azure SQL Database Hyperscale, you say? Come to my talk on Friday (8:00 am, I know, so early) to learn all about it! Real customer stories included! #FABCONSQLCON26

GitHub Copilot in SSMS is GA!!! 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 🥳🥳🥳👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🥳🥳🥳

#FABCON #SQLCON keynote time!

I’m out of practice on work travel. I forgot to pack socks. Oops.

GitHub Copilot is just as confused about PowerShell errors with braces as I am, so the machines are not taking our jobs yet.

It's a good day when I'm the only woman on the call and one man asks another to be the note-taker. Didn't even look at me.

I’m delighted that a writer has summarized my feelings about music albums of the last few years: sometimes, less is more. www.npr.org/2025/09/16/g...

Oh no. Oh, no no no. I have just seen a coworker use "Gets" instead of "Benefits". No. I still refuse to acknowledge "Asks", we are definitely NOT going for "Gets".

3:30 pm on a Friday before a 3-day weekend is NOT the time for me to try to do CIDR calculations on the fly.

From the department of "I think I've seen it all, but just wait...", today I talked to a company that had over 400 Windows clusters. They were using File Share Witness for quorum. They had 400 2-core VMs on-prem - one for each cluster - host the witness.

What a week to be on vacation.

Let’s go racing 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 2-0 dub tonight ⚽️ great gal’s night with @grrlgeek.bsky.social

Friday night was tiki bar and women’s football! Also @racingloufc.com won 2-0!

As a side project at work this year, I started a study group for the Azure Database UX Designers. We went through the Azure Data Fundamentals materials. Multiple UX designers passed this exam because I taught them, despite only one having a background in data. That was a huge win for me!

I really really really really REALLY miss training people, and creating materials to train people. It has always been the favorite part of my job.

I've thoroughly enjoyed a Friday afternoon with no (!!!) meetings and created wonderful diagrams to illustrate the many ways ApplicationIntent=ReadOnly can be used with Azure SQL DB/SQL MI.

Computers are terrible.

"We need to recover data from an Access 1997 database" are words I never thought I'd hear again, but here we are.

The fucking table of contents in Microsoft documentation moved AGAIN. Why. I just got used to it being under the title. FFS.

I can tell when people write things using Copilot and don't check it and it UPSETS me.

I have my first Queen Bee badge, yay! #queenbee #spellingbee

Down to 3 unread email in my inbox, must be time to end my week.

Bought local coffee beans last weekend. Made an Americano at home with them today. Hearing colors at this point. Dang is that strong.

I just read “near the turn of the century” in a news article and realized…the author means 1999/2000 and not 1899/1900 and I am devastated.

I've heard Azure SQL called a lot of things over the years but "Azure Flexi SQL Server Db" is a new one.

The decibel level from the cicadas today is 85-90. Our backyard is literally moving at all times. It's so weird.

The cicadas at our house are so loud I can hear them while indoors, with my headset on, listening to someone else talk. It's madness.

I hate the "new" Outlook with the fire of a thousand suns.

I love having house cleaners but, going by Murphy's Law, they always know when I'm presenting on an important call to start vacuuming right outside my office.

Made homemade giardiniera recently. Starting eating the third jar of it right now. Easily one of the best things I've made myself.

I have a lot of feelings about the recent layoffs at Microsoft, and my primary feeling is absolute frustration that all levels of leadership refuse to acknowledge or talk about it. This is not a case of "If we don't talk about it, it didn't happen." It happened.

Mick had a 2.5 mile walk and Wyatt had a 3 mile trail run but are they ready to wrassle? Absolutely. Who gave my dogs coffee today?

Took a break because there was too much BS on my feed. Came back this morning, cleaned it up. This is my space for tech, running, and rando conversations.

How big of a deal is the Kentucky Derby in Louisville? The public library is closed Saturday for the holiday.

Gave an internal presentation to 40-ish people and I'm feeling a lot more pumped now.

Friday morning motivation: NULL.