Anya ,'Sleeper'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
We have antibiotics, oxygen tanks and glucose drips to today - not available in 1918.
Yes, but we don't have the nursing personnel to use and monitor them. That's one of the big worries: our healthcare system doesn't have the reserves to handle a pandemic.
I, on the other hand, walked into the office this morning to discover some jackhole with a backhoe had severed the network connection between our buildings, and thus we get to spend ALL DAY hooking up the studio across the street with firewire drives full of files.
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You should pretend you're in a blockbuster movie, or something, and you have to get these files moved because the safety of the country depends on it!
That really works best if you've spent years warning everybody about *exactly this* happening, but nobody would listen! Including the sheriff, who's been taking kickbacks from the backhoe drivers for years.
Now they have no choice but to bring you in to fix the mess they made. But watch out! They'll turn on you the first chance they get.
I, on the other hand, walked into the office this morning to discover some jackhole with a backhoe had severed the network connection between our buildings, and thus we get to spend ALL DAY hooking up the studio across the street with firewire drives full of files.
You should pretend you're in a blockbuster movie, or something, and you have to get these files moved because the safety of the country depends on it!
Or a Danny Kaye movie:
The Jackhole with the backhoe
Cut the wires for the files...
shrift, Dana, seriously? I'm impressed neither one of you is on a homicidal rage by now. Actually homicidal, I mean.
Vortex, I'm obsessed with things that are pumpkin-y, but not pumpkin pie: pumpkin creme brulee, pumpkin cheesecake, like that.
Flu vaccine is my life right now (my office gives shots). I do know that the current vaccine does not protect against "avian flu" as it hasn't passed from human to human yet. (please forgive me if this has already been said). The other thing that is a pain in the ass is that someone or something (perhaps the drug companies) seem to be controlling the vaccine-- that is you could order 30,000 doses for next week, and then just not get them. Or get fewer and late and then have to throw it out because your clinic has passed.
Now they have no choice but to bring you in to fix the mess they made. But watch out! They'll turn on you the first chance they get.
Awesome. You know, she's a techie who doesn't play by the rules. Her partner was three days from retirement when that backhoe driver ran him over. Now she's out for revenge, and god help the people who get in her way.
I recommend answering your cell phone periodically with the phrase "Hello? Oh, yes, Mr. President. It's quite an honor to speak to you."
"Copy that, Mountaineer."
I, on the other hand, walked into the office this morning to discover some jackhole with a backhoe had severed the network connection between our buildings, and thus we get to spend ALL DAY hooking up the studio across the street with firewire drives full of files
Hmm. Was Mayor Daley involved? He's been known to settle disputes by way of midnight backhoe.
We have both kinds of cranberry - the fresh and the canned jelly, always left in the shape of the can with the rings.
ita, are you looking for your migraine? I think I found it.
Take good care of it, will you?