Panthera Sapiens Ellipsis: The Blog

It's... about three years and a half now since I started work, give or take a week or two, and definitely coming on three years since I was transferred into the QA department, so I think it's a bit of a good time to start, hm, taking stock of everything that's changed or not changed, that I can observe. A small thought occurs to me that I ought to encrypt this, so I will. But I'm too lazy to do the complicated key thing that I did before; I'll just use an online encrypter when I'm done with this, and if whoever's reading this is both curious enough to attempt decryption AND clever or fortunate enough to find the key, well, that's reward for motivation and intelligence, isn't it? What has happened in the company over the last three and a half years that I can remember, in non-chronological and non-alphabetic order: EnCt2c6b5a6bbe84890d1925f557bfedc741d237ada38c6b5a6bbe84890d1925f557brSMTQY+tvAJ igOUcGFV2R9ryNSk4mnzDxEswwbwI3HSTbNrq7fuVKzyyXIn

I was sent to a training course last week, on Tuesday and Wednesday - incidentally the last two days of the last year. Which makes this the first post of the new year, and I haven't yet gotten used to writing dates ending in "15" rather than "14" - but I digress. It's not the first training course I've ever gone to, but it's certainly the first one to be quite so emotional and rah-rah, and definitely the first one to end without a course evaluation of any kind. This is therefore my rectification of that issue. Naturally, names and titles are omitted for obvious reasons; but you may message me privately for further details. The trainer was a man. He was articulate enough, and something of a showman - large exaggerated gestures, a wide range of intonations and expressions and humourous props, and appreciably good-looking. He didn't introduce himself other than to mention he was of mixed heritage (his name format seems, however, to contradict