Kimberly KG

After meeting with the neighbors to fill out our ballots this morning (voting with friends and mimosas is fun), Matt and I drove out to take a look at a home I found online. While we’re not exactly planning to move, if we found the right house, we’d seriously consider it. This home is beautiful and checks most of the boxes we have. A heron was wading in the stream off the back deck when we first looked.

As we were leaving, Matt turned left out of the driveway so we could look further up the road, but instead of turning around, we just kept driving. Into nothing and nowhere, apparently.

As you can tell (I’m posting this after all) we did, in fact, not drive off the end of the earth.

An update to my post yesterday:

Apparently I am the only one feeling like this. The male managers all said that they have friends that are concerned about losing their jobs to AI, but none of their employees have raised any concerns about it. They think I just happened to get all the engineers that are concerned about it on my team.

They are all feeling optimistic themselves too.

One of my employees thanked me for the free therapy session today. If only I was qualified. Being a software engineer in 2026 is a wild mix of emotions. So is being an engineering manager.

Or so it seems?

None of my peers (who all happen to be men) have talked about any extra burden lately. Am I the only one feeling like this?

A couple weeks ago Matt asked if I’d mind getting a 3" mattress topper for our bed. I asked if we would still be able to get into our bed.

If we haven’t met in person, I suspect you’re making assumptions about my height.

Several years ago Matt and I went to the store and laid on a bunch of different beds until we found a set of mattresses we could agree on. We scheduled the delivery for the mattress and corresponding boxspring. I was out the morning they showed up so when I got home Matt announced that our new mattresses had been delivered. As I started down the hall, he nonchalantly added, “They’re a little tall.” A LITTLE tall?! These mattresses seem to take up approximately one quarter of the entire volume of our bedroom! It was so ridiculous I woke up Ally and Sam to see at how silly it all was. We all got a big laugh that day.

Did they deliver the wrong mattress? The wrong boxframe? All the numbers checked out. Did they have mattresses sitting on the floor at the store and we just didn’t notice?! We had only recently gotten our nice headboard and frame so I didn’t want to change it.

Time has passed though and we’ve gotten used to it. These three inches though? I now squish down the topper before hopping into bed. Matt suggested we could get some of those stairs people buy for their little dogs.

I am 5'11" or 180 cm tall. I am not buying stairs to get into my own bed.

I heard an unverified rumor about the amount of money a local company is spending on Cursor each month and it keeps rattling around in my brain. It’s the kind of number that feels like someone, rather multiple someones, should lose their jobs over. I think that would be true at half that rumored number as well.

There is just no way the company is going to get anywhere near that in return.

Some might argue that it’s an investment towards the future (If we don’t know how to use AI, our competitors will pass us by!!!), but there still has to be SOME sense applied, right?!