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OMG I made the top 20 (posts in a new MMP)! I think that’s my “never done this before” thing! 
Bailey decided that I should be tired today. It began with a middle-of-the-night wakeup, when something made her start barking at ~2:45am. That’s unusual enough that I put my glasses on and went to check on her (she was fine). Luckily I was able to fall back asleep pretty quickly, but then she started barking again right before 7am…shortly before my alarm was set to go off. *sigh* I got out of bed to discover that she’d had big accidents in the living room (probably right after the 3am barking session). I’d just gotten all of that cleaned up and the laundry started – I use washable waterproof pads in the LR at night for just this reason – when she started puking: over the course of ~90 minutes, she threw up 4-5 times. Just bile, no blood, but the poor doggy was clearly not feeling well! Every time I heard “that” sound I had to rush to clean it up, because some of it landed on hardwood flooring. So, I was doing that while also logging into work and getting my work day started. Her belly seemed to finally settle down around 11am, and she actually ate a little breakfast (which I’d set out before the pukefest began). I’m keeping an ear out for sounds of any further issues, but at the moment she is sleeping and I’m on top of the cleanup. 
I’m finally able to take this break for lunch and Mumping, but the morning was a bit nuts: all of the doggy stuff aside, at work there were two different staffing issues that needed immediate attention (one of which resulted in a call from our customer) plus a proposal status meeting, and I had to scramble to send out requests for the additional proposal info I need by COB. The work I did both yesterday and Saturday got me almost as far as I can go without this info, and also helped me zero in on exactly what to ask for. So it was worthwhile time in that regard, but man I’d just gotten my weekends back (after quitting my volunteer gig at the end of June)! 
I do still have some other writing to do on the section, though, and will need to get back at it pretty soon. I’m expecting to need to work this evening to incorporate all of the info I’ll (hopefully) have by COB. My deadline is midnight. Between that and the lack of sleep last night, tomorrow could be interesting. Heh.
Wouldn’t it be “Viner”? 
O. M. G. 
Both at my company and my customer the fix was able to be provided remotely, but had to be done individually (something about info specific to a given computer). People were on hold with various help desks for hours. So not only am I sure that support techs lost plenty of time to tales of woe, the wait times for those affected were super wasteful (if unavoidable).
One of the major roads in my area is a toll road: the booths used to have human staff in addition to the ability to read transmitters – called EZPass devices – in your car (which you fund online), but after the pandemic they got rid of the people. Now there are signs at the booths saying “No EZPass? No problem, we’ll bill you!” I imagine it’s the same technology. I wonder if there is some kind of fee added if someone gets billed that way, though.
Thanks for the earworm…