Those were unrelated to the Adult Swim things, right?

Yeah. There were a couple of faux pipe bombs. Enough to make people pretty edgy.

I don't think the city overreacted, but the reaction wasn't foreseeable by Turner and Adult Swim. I'm guessing that if someone calls into 911 with a suspected bomb, the city will respond seriously, but guessing that someone would mistake a lite-brite for a bomb-- that's hardly foreseeable.

OK, I can see the city not being able to immediately differentiate between the Adult Swim stuff and the other stuff. I was under the impression that the city first had the big reaction to the Adult Swim stuff, and then the other stuff was found after. Or did the big reaction come at least partially because of the other bomb threats and fake bombs?

In any event, it was a bad decision on the part of Adult Swim, plus incredibly bad luck that this other stuff was going on at the same time.

Just now however I got the sullen and totally emo business version of "I never asked to be born!"

I get those, usually it's something along the lines of, "But I can't make that appointment!" "Coworker A won't call me back!" "Why is Coworker D out of town!?!"

Heh. I got, "I just wanted to know X, but I guess that's just too much to ask!"

To which I cheerfully responded, "Here is X information!" I did not helpfully mention that I would have given her X in the first place if she'd mentioned that X was all she needed.

Why do people think that being bitchy will make me want to help them?

sometimes it's hard to turn off the bitchiness when you are actually a bitch...Signed, Was just a total bitch to a friend who really didn't deserve it.

Assuming no prior working relationship with said person, I think I'd have gone for the "why don't you try asking me and see if it's too much?" option.

Ah but then they don't get to whine for a half hour about how difficult it is to get X. It's all about the whining.

re: Adult Swim--after seeing the stuff that shows up in "24" and all those shows, I wouldn't assume any mysterious electronic object isn't something to call the full alert out on.

edit: not to say that big city bomb squads aren't up to date on current bomb technology, but I don't want to be the squad chief saying, "Hell, it looked like a toy!"

SO...mac was up at 4 - hot and complainy. I had given him some kiddie ibu before bed, but gave him more. He did not get back to sleep, but I did. By 8 he had no fever and said he felt ok, so it was off to school. 11:15 call from school, he is complaining of headache, throat hurting, has fever, has cough.

We are now back from the Dr. - upper resp. virus and fever. Nothing related to the probably infection in his thumb. ibu, fluids/rest for the fever. soaking in hot water with epsom salts for thumb.

I have been instructed to please not lance myself anymore and also soak my thumb.

now working from home. sigh.