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I probably shouldn't have sprung that on you guys last night, huh. Sorry! I was having a moment.

But yes, BossBoss is leaving. He threatened to do this about a year ago, but HR literally hid from him so he couldn't turn in his resignation, and the urge passed. Now, apparently, his wife has changed jobs with a big enough pay bump that he doesn't need to contribute his salary. It's not that he's quitting because he doesn't have to work, it's more that he's quitting because he hasn't really been happy in his job for a long time, and now it's just easy for him to quit. He's not going to another job -- he's just leaving this one.

(Though I suspect it also has something to do with his passion for beer brewing -- he's been messing around with it for about a year and he's gotten quite good. He understands all the chemistry involved, and often attempts to explain it to me with interesting results.)

So much as I'd like to go with him, I can't, unless I go home with him and live rent-free in their basement, and I think his wife would disapprove.

In day-to-day terms, it's okay; he's done a lot to "automate" the department, and I have to ask him for approval/advice/assistance about a tenth as often as I used to. In the larger view, of course I'm anxious about whether I'll get on with his replacement, but I have yet to run into a deep down real and true complete asshole at this company -- vaguely annoying incompetents are much more common, and I can deal with those, because I scare them.

Last time BossBoss made noises about leaving, his boss called me and asked me a lot of leading questions about my qualifications to do BossBoss's job. I suspect he may try again, but I'm neither qualified to do his job nor willing to put up with the direct and specific incompetence he put up with.

On the other hand, if a certain job prospect (slight but possible) comes through for me, I'll be leaving around the same time BossBoss does, so it should be somewhat entertaining to watch the department dissolve into chaos.

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And up goes the second half of Trace! You can get to chapters 13-25 via the index page, or go to chapter thirteen directly and you'll be linked to the rest from there. Again, because of the awesome power of short chapters, there are three chapters to a post.

This second half is where the major changes come in -- I'm pleased to see the structural reshuffle in the first half is going over well, so we'll see what people think of the new climax. Which is version three, actually, I wrote two other new climaxes before I got to this one. Conflict is hard.

If all goes well, the fun part is coming up: TYPESETTING.

I do sincerely love typesetting. Omg typesetting.

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I just got back from the emergency clinic, where they put two stitches in my left hand because some STUPID DELIVERY GUY dropped a package on my hourglass which shattered. I thought, no big, it's messy but contained, I'll clean it up.

Glass, sand, me...I think we can all guess what happened.

I wouldn't have bothered with the clinic but BossBoss caught me rinsing the wound and said it was an on-job injury so I had to get it documented, and the clinic is close and fast. They cleaned out some glass and sand and put two stitches in the cut. I get to go back to the doctor I saw when I broke my wrist, next week, to get the stitches out and see if I need any physical therapy. At least I know a hand guy?

I'm way more upset about my hourglass, which will not (like my skin) heal itself. It's not like they're expensive, I've already gone online and bought another one, but it was a gift from my mum and I loved it and now I have to wait a week to get it "back".

STUPID DELIVERY GUY.