I have had a nice restful weekend, in which I caught up with perhaps 1/3 of the chores that I intended to. Oh well. I added a new book to my bedside pile, and then read it; between that and the realisation that my next book group meeting is approaching, I was then inspired to read at least a chapter of each book in the pile, which was nice. I set myself a to-do list target a few months ago of reading at least one chapter of each per week, which would keep me actually moving through even if I didn't then end up picking anything up and reading more of it.

Unfortunately mostly what happens is that the overdue item sits there and stares at me on the list. It's annoying, because I do in fact! want to read all of these books! and also most of the ones on the to-read shelves in the spare room. I just somehow don't. However, I've not been in much of a computer game mood in the last few days, and that's freed up some time for reading that isn't fanfic (not that there's anything wrong with that!).

Basically there is too much stuff in my life that distracts me from reading, and if only I didn't need to e.g. earn money I could finish more books. But then I wouldn't be able to go on book-buying sprees, and that would be sad.

In other news, I ordered my new mattress, just as my old one started causing me actual back issues, so good timing me. It's not due until the end of the month, and I'm very impatient.

I keep meaning to post, and then being too boring as a person to manage it (yes, yes, I know, how is this different from usual...). But if I don't post, then it starts being A Thing, and then the next thing I know it's been months and maybe I'll just have to fake my own death and move to another country, but that just sounds like so much work.

Anyway.

We upgraded the main system I look after yesterday, which was moderately nervewracking (not least because For Reasons (me. me and my terrible terrible inability to do the testing. I am the reason) we were something like five major versions behind. Actually it's all gone very smoothly; one real issue that was fixed within about half an hour, one minor bug I spotted in live that would have been incredibly annoying except that three of the changes in the new version mean I shouldn't have to actually use the screen with the non-working navigation, and no more than six people reporting "issues" which were actually them not having cleared their cache as per the instructions I emailed everyone on Monday. And in fairness, all of them had cleared their caches, they just hadn't set the time-range correctly, so they were trying. Repetitive, but extremely easy to fix.

I did have to stay up until nearly midnight to test the upgrade once it was done, to make sure nothing was horrifyingly broken, but the plan anticipated us having to do it after midnight, so it could have been much worse. I reset my morning alarm and did the whole day camera-off so no one could see my hair and/or lack of shower, so I should have had sufficient sleep, but my body doesn't believe it.

And now it starts all over again, because Boss Lady wants us back on the "upgrade twice a year" cycle we initially said we wanted to do. Plus we decided to separate the new bespoke work elements out, and those need testing and upgrading this year so I can start on the new version for a spring upgrade. I both hate testing and am, so I am told, very good at it; the perennial struggle.