Even when you've rejected "physically" . . .

. . . as being too hurtful to everyone, there's still psychically . . .

Seriously

We're an applications company. Isn't there any such thing as document version control around here?

Another friend leaving

I'm glad for my friends when they get to move on and further their careers and their lives.

And sad for myself.

Sometimes

. . . you just have to do what keeps you from snapping.

Today's long-sought word!

graupel /ˈgrau̇-pəl/ - granular snow pellets; called also soft hail

Courtesy of the latest Words at Play blog post, I finally have a word for the phenomenon I first and most frequently observed in the Aleutians! I had previously just referred to this form of precipitation as "Aleutian snow pellets," so I'm happy to see that most of my intuitive description is actually part of the definition of this word. There are other terms in this snowy post that are also new to me, but I'm so pleased with this one that I'm mostly ignoring the rest. (Although I think the family of words related to névé could prove useful.)

So now, in the "it's hell getting old" department: after realizing that this word seems a little familiar, I see that I actually encountered it almost 5 years ago in a Word of the Day. 

President Trump's PR cadre

The account of the President insisting that his spokesman make a demonstrably false statement concerning the inauguration underscores why I couldn't work for the man.

My integrity is all that I have left of my shattered youthful idealistic self-image. I know that God's grace will remain if I forsake even this, and I'm certainly not clinging to it in a futile attempt to merit what, by definition, no one can ever deserve. But neither would I throw it away simply because "the most powerful man in the world" blusters at me, and he would not likely tolerate that.

Today's word

barbican /BAR-bih-kun/ - an outer defensive work; especially : a tower at a gate or bridge

Wikipedia emphasizes the fortified nature of barbicans, which I suppose answers my question - regarding whether this word applied to the towers on more modern drawbridges over American waterways - in the negative.