packs up a huge cart of ~ma and rolls it toward Cashmere

I can't deal with laptops and their tiny little keys!

Easily solved. External keyboard and mouse for home use. Have them plugged into a usb hub, perhaps along with a printer, connect it up when you set the laptop down, and voila!

Some laptops have docking stations, but generally I don't recommend them unless one is hooking up more than a keyboard and mouse.

Pony!

It's a couple transferring from a SE Asian country. He's the gov't employee, and basically on his retirement tour; she's his wife of 5 months, a citizen of the SE Asian country

Oh boy does that sound familiar -- when my in-laws were stationed in Seoul, my MiL was one of maybe 3 middle-aged white women on the base. Most of the rest of the senior staff had moved on to their second, younger, Asian wives.

~~~~~Bev & family~~~~~

~~~~~Sean/S~~~~~

{{{Beverly}}} I'm glad the fever is going down. Continued ~ma to StE.

Job~ma Cashmere.

I'm waiting for Teacup Guy to wake up enough to call about the job. The wait is killing me. ION, I get to pick up my car today! I just might hug it.

Caboodles of job~ma to you, Cash!

(continual non-stop ongoing vibeage for Bev and Sean/S and Calli and everybody)

The older-man-younger-woman thing is pretty common in Athens, except without the cross-cultural aspect. Whenever we see one of these couples, my co-worker, a man with grandkids, says, "I will never understand that - I've already raised children once. Thinking about it just makes me tired."

Curly brackets right backatcha, Sean, you and S. And y'all know I use non-fancy parentheses as a rule, so breaking out the curly brackets is a big deal for me.

Sincerely, I hope everything works out well and S is healthy again very soon.

JZ, how are you doing today? Keeping occupied and the boredom at bay? A former boss of mine spent the last 10 weeks of her first pregnancy not only on bedrest but on her left side. She was allowed to come downstairs once in the morning to lie on the couch, and to go to the bathroom. She wasn't allowed to walk to the mailbox, or to get her own drinks and snacks from the kitchen. I visited as often as I could, and was impressed at how well she kept the cranky at bay.

Her little girl was perfect, and a joy, as was her younger sister, with whom the bedrest routine was not required.

So no boredom vibes to you!

Cashmere, all possible jobma vibes to you. He'd be a stupidhead not to hire you.

Raq--I suppose this is why they call it the diplomatic service, huh? Because I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to refrain from expressing my opinion of such shenannigans. As well as, oh, lots of other government shenannigans and asshattery. Thank goodness we have actually diplomatic people like you in the dip corps, and not dips like me.

I need to get off the computer and consume more coffee and possibly put on clothes.

Job~ma, Cash. Fingers crossed.

My laundry is in the washer! And I didn't have to leave the house! I'm in heaven!

Oh yeah. Doing laundry at home is a heavenly thing.

{{Beverly}} Small steps, but steps in the right direction. Continued vibes.

Got enough ~ma here for S too of course. Send my best wishes Sean.

Job~ma Cashmere!

More coffee for me too. Imma slug today. DH is continuing the demolition of the chimney. A huge chunk just crashed down in the bathroom causing much dust and a big boom. Wiped out the little plastic trash bin in the bathroom. Bit of a hole in the wall. Oh well. Chimney must go.