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.

Officially on vacation for 10 days and I am ready to start it the right way: a Friday evening nap.

8 years at MSFT and today I taught my manager and a teammate about...Icons in PowerPoint. They're useful!

Today marks 8 years at Microsoft for me! I've been a Premier Field Engineer, a Software Engineer, a Product Manager, and now a Cloud Solution Architect. It's never boring!

Was afternoon coffee a great idea considering I haven't slept much the last week? No. Did I do it anyway? Yes.

I have built a Rube Goldberg machine of an Azure SQL Managed Instance metric alert of CPU > 80% starting an Azure Automation runbook that connects to a SQL MI with a managed identity and starts an XE session writing to Azure Storage.

Every time I work with Azure SQL MI + Extended Events + Azure Storage I feel like I am starting at square one.

When trying to write PowerShell using the Az module, it helps to have the Az module installed on your (new) laptop. #NoteToSelf

This whole week has been a series of "What the fuck memo did I miss?" and "I swear I've been in tech 20 years and I've never heard of that, how?" moments and I am tired.

Weekend plans.

I ordered a grande Americano with an extra shot and got a venti with extra shots so after I drink this coffee which is the size of me that tastes like jet fuel prepare for chaos.

3 mile sunrise trail run to start my day!

After avoiding all social media for a couple weeks, hello friends, I've missed having a screen to type out thoughts to and maybe have people respond on those thoughts.

I ordered an Americano with an extra shot today and I am both very tired and very amped up.

If you can change what you call a body of water, you can change what you call a person.

I know I'm getting older and crankier, but an email sent with 8 point font truly deserves to be trashed.

I asked ChatGPT to come up with an XE session. Oh lord. Go home ChatGPT, you're drunk.

My ability to troubleshoot my own Extended Events sessions is directly correlated to my amount of coffee and I have definitely not had enough coffee.

If I hear “accelerate” one more time at work this week I’m turning it into a drinking game.