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?

We used to keep them in jars in the fridge for several days before releasing them on the neighbors..... off to google

Holy crap! They can live up to a year! [link]

This one must be getting awfully bored, you'd think.

Thanks, people. I've sent out an e-mail to friends and family asking for help. I know when I first got annoyed by the reorg, I wasn't too happy with what was out on the job sites, but hopefully things have improved in the last few months.

The thing that sucks most is I like working there. It's just the new CIO and his policies (this shift change is in reaction to them. Someone currently works the shift I am being assigned, but doesn't have much in the way of technical knowledge, and they want 24/7 coverage with knowledgable people, so she is apparently getting moved elsewhere or out the door. The information is still sketchy at the moment.) that are fucking everything up. I really don't want to leave, but once this shift change takes effect, I may as well be working for a different place anyway considering the complete change of time and location.

Do you at least get a shift differential?

Nothing was mentioned. My boss mumbled something about seeing if I could get reimbursed for mileage next week, but that's it. I was trying to get more information, but he said he couldn't tell me anything more until next week (though I was welcome to call him tomorrow to see if that had changed.) It sounds like there was an eidict from the CIO of "Make X happen by next week" and left it up to him to work out the details. My boss doesn't seem particularly happy about this either.