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This is where I need to remind myself that my current department is so much saner than the old one. And that the sanity includes things like being able to take off early to go to an afternoon baseball game next week without using leave. The last place had a time clock everyone had to punch, including professional staff.

But I am so sick and tired of trying to unravel bureaucratic snafus not of my own making, using incomplete information given to me by people who suck at administrivia. I'm feeling so in over my head here, like everyone is going to see I'm a fraud, but it's not like I can run away. So I'm fantasizing about hitherto-unknown rich uncles leaving me their fortunes, or else some editor at Tor or Del Rey having a psychic vision of how I have 85 pages written on what's going to be the most brilliant alternate history series EVER, so they're going to give me a four-book contract NOW.

Or, you know, Calgon, take me away.

msbelle, sorry about the crappy day. I would like to declare this sucky day over for everyone.

thanks for the kind thoughts, people.

music is on and mac is playing alone, so all is not bad.

A demonstration of a photo taken with and without flash: [link]

Is "unicorn" in the KJV a mistranslation of another word? I hope?

It's debatable, you can make a good case that it means a wild ox as well. Of course, it isn't really an issue unless you are claiming that the whole Bible is literal and infallible. I dunno what the people who think the Bible is literal and infallible and that the KJV is the one true translation do.

A demonstration of a photo taken with and without flash: [link]

That's great!

I dunno what the people who think the Bible is literal and infallible and that the KJV is the one true translation do.

I think they have bigger problems than unicorns.

Of course, it isn't really an issue unless you are claiming that the whole Bible is literal and infallible. I dunno what the people who think the Bible is literal and infallible and that the KJV is the one true translation do.

Well, duh. It's literal and infallible, except that we aren't shit-together enough to understand it literally, except for those other parts that are literal, because they're the seventh refinement of the seventh refinement of the reinspired word of G-d, as (re)passed down directly to the English-speaking white dudes who wrote the version we happened to grow up with. In a committee.

oh, all my problems are solved, mac has announced that when he gets older he will buy the Batmobile and drive me places (specifically to work so it will not take me so long) and also go buy his own toys and will go do grocery shopping (also in the Batmobile, thereby making it fast).

as he explains "I will make the blue stuff and go fast and it will be cool."

Sheryl - I thought that they weren't supposed to sell the advanced copies - did you pay for it?