Oy. I just had...I'm at a loss for adjectives other than...long talk with the boss. Was supposed to be half an hour, turned out to be an hour.

Long story short, I'm disappointed in people, but really have to get over that and get shit done anyway.

That's not a great outcome, ita, but if it's what you have to work with, I guess it's good to know that's what you have.

DH lived in a 400 sf apt with no heat and no stove for 6 months - we couldn't see staying there for the summer with no A/C. The bathroom was so tiny you couldn't close the door if you were standing at the sink. The outside was not too pleasant. That is where we either learned how to get along or discovered we were really compatible. It could have been a huge ordeal, but it was more of a cozy adventure.

We were both working, then. During the recent months that DH was working from home and I was not working, having several rooms and a nice yard for either of us to escape to has been much more necessary.

Damn it! Talked to my boss again. It's sounding like this is going to be a permanent change, not me covering for someone on vacation. They do not pay me nearly enough to drive 40 miles in rush hour traffic, work nights and have no social life (shift is 6pm to 6am Wednesday through Friday nights, with alternating Saturdays. I literally will be at work when my friends are getting together on the weekends.) I grumbled a lot, but I dealt with the re-org and the idiotic new policies, but I draw the line at them hosing my life outside of work.

Anyone know of a place in the northern Chicagoland area looking for a PC tech, because if this ends up being permanent, I'm out the door the first instant I am able. I took tomorrow off just to get a 4-day weekend, but it looks like it's going to be spent updating my resume and trawling the job sites.

Watching last night's Justice. I love the theme song! Brilliant.

Man, Kalshane, that bites. The freedom to significantly change a person's job and them just having to suck it up or leave...well, I see it from a resources required PoV, but those resources are people.

Yeah, -t. Not everyone conforms to what I call "grownup," but there's no point pouting about it and insisting I'm right. I'm sure I'm not altogether grownup to them either, if they even care.

I am so nearly tempted to get one of these. And this is a nifty and actually new idea for a mouse. I can't decide if I'd light my apartment with this or if it would send me into seizures.

Okay. Off home.

Kalshane, that just plain sucks. Good luck to you in finding a way the hell out of there (because honestly? even if they magically change their minds on this one, they've now proven themselves willing to fuck with your life.)

I smiled at my neighbor and my not-at-all-chapped upped lip split. That'll teach me ... something.

Kalshane, I hope you get better hours, or a job somewhere else. Do you at least get a shift differential?

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Here's a fun interbunny doohickey, Your Birthday Star:

Birthday Stars

What's this all about?

Light travelling in empty space is the fastest thing in the universe. It travels at 186,000 miles per second!

The stars are so far away from us that their light still takes a long time to reach Earth. One light year is the distance light travels in a year: 5,878,499,812,499 miles. The closest star apart from the Sun is 4.2 light years away, so its light takes 4.2 years to reach Earth.

Tell the Birthday Stars computer when you were born, and it will look for a star that is your age in light years away from Earth. This means that the light we're seeing from that star today actually left the star around when you were born, and has taken your entire life to reach Earth.

From month to month you may see your birthday star changing. This is because as you get older the light from more and more distant stars has had the time to travel to Earth in during your life.

You give it your birth year, month, then day.

Mine star is in the constellation Triangulum Australe. It has the name ζ (Zeta) Trianguli Australis in Johann Bayer's Uranometria star catalog. It is called NS 1628-7005 A in the NStars database.

It has visual magnitude 4.9 meaning that you could just see this star with the naked eye under the best viewing conditions. It's 39.5 light years away, which means that the light we see from it today set off on its journey about the time of my birth.

Birthday stars change over time, as the light from more distant stars reaches Earth.

Oww. Sarameg.

That does suck, Kalshane. I hope you can find something else quickly.

Geez, Kalshane, that's really sucky. Good luck finding something else.

I have had a brownish ladybug crawling around on and near my sofa for DAYS. How long do they live?