Kludge

Underdressed for the Weather--Wednesday, 1/13/16

Black and white polka dot top, red bottoms, a pop of leopard print--I'm on it.

From alovelylittlewardrobe.com

I took this opportunity to wear the other JCP pencil skirt I got on sale before Christmas, and my leopard smoking slippers are a most valuable player throughout the cold weather period because of how well they work with tights.

Black polka dot top (Kohls), $1.42/wear
*Red pencil skirt (JCP), $11.89/wear+
*Black open weave sleeveless cardigan vest (Kohls), $11.04/wear+
Red/gold 3 row necklace (Macy's), $2.83/wear
Black tights
Leopard smoking slippers by Clarks, $2.50/wear

Outfit total: $29.68/wear

I was so happy to get some more open weave cardigan vests during the Christmas sale!  After wearing my thrifted navy one 6 times in my 6 months of owning it, I was sold on the usefulness of this garment type in my wardrobe.  While I don't think of these lightweight vests as serious winter gear, I wanted at least one of them to make their debut during the Work the Wardrobe Challenge.  And this gives my black quilted vest a bit of a break, too.  I finally managed to unearth my thermal camisoles in my dresser so I was able to add one of those as a helpful warming under-layer.

In other news...I have an off-site meeting at 8:00 a.m. on Friday--boo!  But given that 9 of us are going to be training an entire building of 70 people, I guess it makes sense that we are going to them.  (I loathe having off-site meetings, of course, but I'm lucky this doesn't happen very often..)

Today I used the word "kludge" in our developer meeting and apparently no one had heard this word before.  (I was referring to a bad method I had come up with for reporting a difficult metric--one that I didn't want to use.)

The wikipedia article on this term is fascinating.  Connections to computer engineering, the US navy, and Coldville (in the form of two Norwegian machinists) plus a fictitious German etymology--what more can you want?