I encountered several wizards today. Two of them are my long-time Indian-American colleagues who lead our development team.

I have been struggling to solve an issue with our hi-fidelity html product prototype (aka “the demo”) for literally YEARS. The person who created the demo was my beloved old boss, the LSCHP, but he moved on to bigger and better things a number of years ago. I had no clue how this particular corner of the demo worked. When I was the only business analyst, I could manage it by hook or by crook (as The Commander used to say). Now that My Replacement is on board, it needs to be fixed. So Amazon Woman called a “working” meeting together today.

It isn’t quiiiite fixed yet but I was relieved that these two wizards obviously knew where to look and what to look for. At one point we were looking at a file that had some javascript code in it and they spied something odd. And so did I! In pseudo-code, “if the browser is Internet Explorer, do this, if it’s any other browser, do this other thing.” Problem? We haven’t used IE since, hmmm, about the time this part of the demo stopped working? Edge! Edge! Edge! And so the object (or whatever it is) referencing IE was basically useless.

I suppose I have to include a third person in the wizard category. It is the GG and I am reluctant to give him tooooo much status in the wizard department lest it go to his head. But…

After I fergit how many weeks, the Hoton Lake Group Home webcam (which we host) was down, it sneaked back up this morning. This is after umpteen bazillion hours of work of the GG trying to sort out the problem and chatting with tech support folks to no avail. He FINALLY got connected by phone with a woman who at least LISTENED to him and seemed to understand enough to file an escalated ticket. Those folks said, “Yeah, this is a known issue.” I wondered, “then why didn’t anyone else at the host service know about it?”

The ticket was closed before the issue was fixed (as tickets often are, even at my work, bad user experience) but they apparently did the job and here are the webcams. (It’s dark there now).

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