Some random stuff

I have some random stuff to share – most of it not worthy of a post, so I’m consolidating.

  • I’ll be heading to Toulouse in a few weeks for a bit of a vacation. Looking forward to the time off, as well as food, wine, and warm weather. At one point in my life, I was almost adequate in speaking a very broken form of French (one that only included present tense verbs and lot’s of food terms) – but I’m pretty sure I’ve forgotten even that little bit of the language these days. Hopefully enough will come back before I embarrass myself too much.
  • My “new” job (I’ve been here 4 months already) is going great. I’ve had some pretty good success with exploratory testing on the team lately, and it’s an effort that a lot of people are seeing value with. I’m also working on some stuff with code coverage, test code quality and code reviews that are keeping me busy.
  • Buried in this post from just over 4 months ago was a comment about my rising blood pressure. I’m happy to say that as of this morning (after a visit to my doc), my bp has returned to it’s historic norms (actually, a bit better – 110/66). Better yet, I mentally and physically feel better these days (and this is before my vacation).

I have a follow up on my SDET Pendulum post drafted, and will try to get it up by the end of the weekend (for those of you who like my longer posts).

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