JZ, there's a lovely fantasy world in my head where you actually did say it, and I can see the initially confused and then suddenly horrifiedly aware-of-what-an-ass-he-sounded responses crossing the creepy old dude's face in succession. And you keep your job and get the undying gratitude of women everywhere.

In my imagination, all that happens and her boss is so proud of her, she gets a huge hinking raise and six months maternity leave WITH PAY.

Health~ma for Dallas, Trudy.

Offer~ma on apartment, vw.

Well, checked out the fire/smoke/water damage in my department and I'd say that my department is full on to start up again with business as normal as soon as they're ready to let us back in the building. I was impressed with the way the sprinkler system responded. I thought my department would suffer at least some damage from the overhead sprinklers, but nothing got touched from water from above. Only the sprinklers that were absolutely needed to douse the fire went off. So, there were some boxes on the floor that suffered from the flooding, but that's a very small portion of what could have gotten damaged. Only semi-major problem is some of the finished product that was on the pallet racking directly across from the ones that caught fire were floor level and got waterlogged. Plus, the ones off the floor were close enough to the fire that some of the boxes look sort of puffy, like partially roasted marshmallows. Even though they look okay, the heat may have caused enough damage to kill them. We'll have to wait for them to dry out before we can take them out of their boxes and retest them. Poor Fred, the owner, was on a business trip to Hong Kong. He wasn't due back until Sunday and now he's got to cut the trip short to come home today.

I wanna live in Aimee's imagination.

I wanna live in Aimee's imagination.

Gotta love the pay scale. And I suspect the job bennies include camels.

You know it!

Sounds like a pretty good outcome, considering, Sail.

Very much so. Even the department where the fire originated only really lost insignificant stuff. The fire started on a work in process shelf and because it was right next to their pallet racking that held all their cardboard packing boxes, they all went up with a big poof, but that was about it. You can see a very distinct line where once they burnt up they were done. It's only heat and water that really damaged anything else in the area.

I've been listening to House Rules incessantly on my iPod recently, thanks to Juliana and Steph.

In conclusion, Fernet.

Why hasn't Aimee's Empire made itself manifest, yet? I'm tired of waiting.