Boy! Weird!

WTF! Now we really have to sit down and have a name-conference! Because girls' names have the flexibility to avoid the sing-song Y-nickname problem, but boys' names are much harder on that front.

There will be no Julia Goulia among the Nuttykin!

The real WTF is that this will be the first male child of this generation. Not that we're all reproducing like wildfire, but those that are have all had girls thus far. Considering how oppressed the Idiot Brother has felt, surrounded by females, any testosteronal representation will count as attempts at parity.

The real WTF is that this will be the first male child of this generation. Not that we're all reproducing like wildfire, but those that are have all had girls thus far. Considering how oppressed the Idiot Brother has felt, surrounded by females, any testosteronal representation will count as attempts at parity.

Oh, then you TOTALLY need to give him a "girl" name! You know, one that goes either way. Robin or Kelly or Taylor or something.

I think we're going to have a talk with Casper about it tonight. We've been talking up the idea of babies and sisters/brothers generally for a while.

Last night she said, to mr. flea, "This is MY mommy, not your mommy, daddy," and mr. flea said, "Do you know who my mommy is? Grandma T!" and Casper said, "Noooooooo." We then discussed mommy's mommy and siblings, and she was similarly disbelieving. So we have some way to go on the understanding family relationships front.

In terms of 7-footness, I would like to aim for shorter than mr. flea (6'6"). It's hard to be exceptionally tall. I think the odds are decent - my brother is only 5'11'' and my father 6'2" and mr. flea's father is only 6'1". Not that we have any say in the matter.

Yay, flea.

So, review was laughable. They changed the scale this year, so all the scores are lower than last year. Which is fine, but all my scores were below the "competent" level, including "Adheres to department dress code", which I have never once violated. So apparently, I'm not only a crappy tech, but I'm a crappy dresser, too. As a whole, it seemed arbitrary and meaningless and they just gave us the numbers they wanted to give us to justify whatever raise they were willing to give. Ugh.

ION, apparently this entire reorganization was devised by the new CIO, without any input from the existing managers, directors or employees. Whee.

They changed the scale this year, so all the scores are lower than last year. Which is fine, but all my scores were below the "competent" level, including "Adheres to department dress code", which I have never once violated. So apparently, I'm not only a crappy tech, but I'm a crappy dresser, too. As a whole, it seemed arbitrary and meaningless and they just gave us the numbers they wanted to give us to justify whatever raise they were willing to give. Ugh.

That sucks. So they're just trying to blame sucky raises on their employees. Nice.

Also, did you ever see that float yesterday?

That totally sucks, Kalshane.

flea, I have a friend who is significantly shorter than both her parents, but I'm pretty sure she was smoking and drinking and anorexic in middle school, which I'm going to bet stunted her growth. You probably don't want to encourage that, but what do I know.

Jamaicans say that coffee and swinging your leg over someone's head will stunt their growth. If you make your son a citizen of my fair country, there might be some benefits.

Oh, and I think there's something about concrete too.

Question for the hivemind...

What's the wording of the quote about some gay porn being less gay than Angel? Was this originally a Tim statement? Google's giving no love. Well it is trying to give me lots of love but of a gay porn type, where I'm just looking for the wording and source.

IIRC, it's Tim, and it's "Some gay porn? Less gay."

No, I know it's Tim, because he said it to my face. It's the words themselves that might be victim of time and cranial impact.

It's the words themselves that might be victim of time and cranial impact.

"Hey you! The blonde! Quit bonking your head!"