Anyone else consider themselves well informed on COVID guidelines and felt like the messaging before last week was that "Breakthrough COVID" was as rare as getting struck by lightning? Sharing this if everyone promises not to offer condolences. My grandmother died today of a breakthrough COVID case. She lived alone last year to avoid dying of COVID. Since vaccination she has only interacted with vaccinated people.

It's 3am and can't sleep so naturally I'm reliving every embarrassing moment I can think of. This story I call "Tone deaf Rebecca thinks she lives in the opening scene of a romantic comedy."... Every morning freshman year of college I gave a homeless who lived outside my dorm an apple. Did I think I was the greatest person on earth and expect to be named as the person who inspired him to pull himself up by his boot straps and get into Harvard Medical School? Yes.

STORY DEVELOPING: occasionally rewriting a horrible codebase is the right decision when a codebase was written by someone who gave absolutely 0 Fs, don't subject yourself to swimming in a hot pile of flaming poop. If you agree to work with it, you own that codebase. Don't be a victim or a cliche..plan your rewrite CAREFULLY and then start the hell over.