A bed of roses

Well, not really fuck all.  There's ALWAYS the cleaning.  And I'm getting my hair cut on Tuesday.  And grandson has GCSE results on Thursday. And daughter is supposed to call in on Friday after her first scan.  AND I want to get husband out in the fresh air as much as possible.

But there won't be work getting in the way.

And there will be FF9.  And Lucifer.

As an aside, I've been thinking about Lucifer.  One thought I've had is his similarity to The Doctor.  The Doctor is known as a non-violent character but has most definitely BEEN violent in the past and allows the companions to use weapons - but the Doctor's FIRST reaction is not violence, it's humour.  Lucifer is violent, almost by definition, but also usually leads with a friendly smile and a joke.

A second is the focus on the female gaze.  Lucifer, again almost by definition, will have sex with anyone, anywhere, anytime.  But there is a lot of focus on women desiring HIM.  There's no gratuitous nudity, no rape-dressed-as-seduction.  There are LOTS of female characters, too, who have conversations with each other.  A lot of those conversations are about Lucifer - but he's the title character :D  Not entirely sure where I'm going with this but I approve.

Thirdly, there's Ella.  I love that she's a Christian now but she has a Past.  But it does seem like the writers are like, 'we need random skill x - let's give it to Ella!'.  She can pick locks, count cards and get her hands on rare controlled substances.  It's quite the skill set.

Work was pretty quiet this week, but I got to tidy some stuff up that had been hanging around for a while.  My line manager was on leave, so a lot of the meetings related to the project he's PM'ing didn't happen.  But we did welcome back the contract PM who supported the implementation of the CRM system 6 years ago.  We've moved building and increased our personnel in the meantime.  I tried to give a potted history of the project delivery folk but I know I didn't get the timeline right - not that he really cares :D  I skipped over the whole thing with my previous line manager and team leader because the CIO is his mate - I just said they'd left and it was 'a thing'.  He can ask his mate if he wants to know.

I did realise, though, we've been through 3 BAs and 2 PMs in the past 6 years!  We now have 3 BAs (2 perms, 1 contract about to start) and are trying to recruit a 4th (I think uni wages aren't attractive enough to people at the right skill level, though) and 3 PMs (2 perm and the contractor), and are recruiting a 4th.  And there's still only 1 of me *sigh*

We also have one of the leadership team leaving as well as the person who heads up the tech team for our main student system.  My favourite conspiracy theory is that the person who heads up the tech team for the finance/payroll/HR system will get promoted to the top job (possibly with further recruitment to that team or they'll just continue with dev/tech work for that system) and the functional/support team for the student system will be moved from the department they currently sit in to ours with their manager replacing the tech manager through a restructure rather than recruitment.  This all makes sense to me :D  But our student system is quite niche in this country, so finding someone with appropriate experience is really difficult.  All the current members of the tech team and most of the func team were here when the system was implemented - in fact, most of the func team were ON the implementation team.  So, why are they func not tech?  A very good question that would involve a lot of knowledge of the individuals and the history of the organisation to answer :D :D

Anyway, it's nice to have a working theory that makes sense.  So, it's probably the last thing that will happen ROFLMAO

There's a food delivery due soon and I need to do my exercises, so I'll sign off, now.  See you next week, DW!