I swear to god, I did not make up today's Word of the Day. The tidbit of information included with it, that I don't usually post, says:

"Crapulous" may sound like a word that you shouldn't use in polite company, but it actually has a long and perfectly respectable history (although it's not a particularly kind way to describe someone). It is derived from the Late Latin adjective "crapulosus," which in turn traces back to the Latin word "crapula," meaning "intoxication." "Crapula" itself comes from a much older Greek word for the headache one gets from drinking. "Crapulous" first appeared in print in 1536. Approximately 200 years later, its close cousin "crapulence" arrived on the scene as a word for sickness caused by drinking. "Crapulence" later acquired the meaning "great intemperance especially in drinking," but it is not an especially common word.

Pretty good night last night. We went to the grocery store, and then came home to an e-mail from Karen saying her trip had been cancelled, and did K.T. and I want to Hall?

K.T. waffled a bit - she was having a sick day - but eventually decided we could play, with an admonition from me that I wanted to be in bed before midnight, this time.

So we Halled. Not my favorite sort of session - sparring practice - but still pretty good. And I got to bed a little after 11:30.

I also got to do a neat thing at work yesterday. There's a checklist of questions that developers are supposed to answer when they do a code review. As a developer, I hated the list. Most of it didn't make any sense. (Now, having seen some of the other checklists, I understand - it was compiled from other checklists and someone's early-80s programming manual.)

Yesterday, I gutted the thing and re-wrote it, hopefully in a fashion that will allow it to apply to just about any programming language and make sense to most developers, and still be useful to QA. The changes will have to go through an approval cycle before we can start using them, but it felt really good to highlight this long and unnecessary list of checks and hit that Delete key.

--Liz