bonus - DH is at an 'all-hands' meeting now. His boss said it was nothing to worry about. So I suggested that maybe there was a bonus. We laughed and went on with life. ( 3 years ago there was a 3% wage cut and a wage freeze ever since)
Looks like civilization finally caught up with us.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!
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.
beth b - Dec 14, 2005 8:37:01 am PST #1963 of 10002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Consuela - Dec 14, 2005 8:37:23 am PST #1964 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Oh, that's so sad, ita.
Do you already have a large flatscreen monitor?
I have a small flatscreen monitor, 15". It's sufficient for my purposes. I do, however, want a new computer desk. Hmm.
How much is a Tempur-Pedic mattress?
2,800 lottery tickets.
Hmm. I think not: I'd never keep track of the numbers!
I keep planning to get regular house-cleaning and then don't. That could be an option.
Consuela - Dec 14, 2005 8:38:55 am PST #1965 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
3 years ago there was a 3% wage cut and a wage freeze ever since
Given the hours your DH works, Beth, that's insane. I do hope he'll find a better job soon: he deserves it.
sumi - Dec 14, 2005 8:39:52 am PST #1966 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
That is so sad! (TDS story.)
ita, I think that you are right: although there are tricksey people who will use the Amazon wishlist just as a source of intel -- others will buy from amazon because it's just easy.
Fred Pete - Dec 14, 2005 8:43:27 am PST #1967 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
(Could not think of a female Canadian sufficiently famous to make this a nationalist FCM.)
Anne Murray?
§ ita § - Dec 14, 2005 8:49:09 am PST #1968 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What makes a latte a latte? It's more than just adding milk, right? Is it more than adding hot or steamed milk? Why do I pay a gazillion dollars for Coffee Bean's (delicious) tea lattes? What magic are they working, and how can I duplicate it, but with less sugar (turns out the unsweetened latte I had the once was a weird thing they did for me on a one-time basis)?
TomW - Dec 14, 2005 8:51:07 am PST #1969 of 10002
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
Our xmas bonus last year was a $50 amazon gift card. Which was used towards Firefly and Simpsons DVDs. Good deal.
I suspect that we won't get one this year, given the amount of money they must have had to eat when the christmas party was cancelled due to blizzard.
Theodosia - Dec 14, 2005 8:53:06 am PST #1970 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
::springs forth from nowhere to FEH at J---a R-----s::
Calli - Dec 14, 2005 8:53:34 am PST #1971 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
No idea if we'll be getting bonuses this year. There's the whole impending layoffs and possible closure in '06, which makes me thin, maybe not. But if I do get one it'll go straight to paying off more debt.
JZ - Dec 14, 2005 8:54:17 am PST #1972 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Suela, there's also European Sleep Works in Berkeley. My dad has one of their mattresses in his guest room and it's incredibly comfortable (I had to live with him for a year due to a stoopid fire in my old apartment building, so I speak from deliciously sleepy experience), so much so that my baby brother and his partner (now officially his husband, as of 21 1/2 hours ago, woot!) spent their first big bonuses on having one custom-made and shipped to them in Boston, because they couldn't find anything half so good on the east coast.