Mortaine’s Blog

1. What do you do for a living?

Technical writer at a semiconductor company. I write documentation for the software.

2. What do you like most about your job?

Solving problems, completing a project, and being in a job where I have a lot of confidence in my abilities.

3. What do you like least about your job?

When I’m asked to do tasks that I don’t have very strong skills for (like project management). When I have to work on things I’m not confident about.

4. When you have a bad day at work it’s usually because _____…

Usually because of the bureaucratic bullshit hoops I have to jump through to get a document, no matter how big or small, through to the customer or even for our own internal release.

5. What other career(s) are you interested in?

Teaching, sometimes. Writing non-tech stuff all the time. Some days, I’d like to throw it in and get a job with less responsibility, like retail. Other days, I want to work a similar job in the aerospace industry (lots of responsibility there, though; make a mistake and someone dies).

He ate this morning! Sure, he ate last night’s dinner, but that’s cause he came in after going outside and made a beeline for his bowl and was eating it like he couldn’t eat fast enough, even before I could get to the kitchen.

GO HAMMER GO!!!

Hammer is on Derramax for pain today. It’s really fucking him up. He hasn’t eaten, which means his last meal was half a can of dog food on Wednesday night. His poop is liquid but syrupy. It’s also dark and reddish/orange, but leaves yellow stains (bile?) behind. He is drinking water, but he’s extremely lethargic and he’s not responding when I call his name.

And the emergency vet has told both me and John that the surgeon will call us back tomorrow. Brush off?