Too bright a blue for me. Rats.

I just spent $1000 for furnace repairs. Which doesn't bother me so much because there is a warranty on the house. However, the problem was discovered during a regular furnace check and subsequent emergency call (after the furnace quit in subzero weather)--and I'll bet I'm going to have to fight tooth and nail to get the warranty company to pay this.

Their policy is to call them FIRST and then they dispatch one of their contractors to fix the problems. Only because we'd been doing regular maintenance (NOT covered) and that guy figured out the complex problem with the unit, we had them go ahead and fix it.

I called the warranty company and they did send their guy out--but he left because my guy figured out the problem after five hours of pulling individual parts out and testing them.

If they give me shit about this, I'm going to go ballistic.

No. 18-3943 - Pantone's "color for the year" (when did this start being a Thing? ... not just a PR thing, I mean.)

I imagine this is decided by having a wall covered in little Pantone color samples and then bringing in a fashion consultant who is blindfolded, turned around three times, and given a dart to throw at the Pantone covered wall.

Too bright a blue for me. Rats.

try the cerulean from 2000. It was a good year for colors, they say.

I imagine this is decided by having a wall covered in little Pantone color samples and then bringing in a fashion consultant who is blindfolded, turned around three times, and given a dart to throw at the Pantone covered wall.

Gud is wise.

Gmail has given up on news and sent me this link...

Dirty Reindeer X-mas Tee - www.PhatRags.com/Reindeer - You won't believe what these reindeer are doing!

Fuck you Google and your complete lack of respect for my taste.

God, that sounds like a punchline..."What do you mean, Two Reindeer Mating?" And not in a good way. What the hell?

Stewart, Colbert Returning to Airwaves Jan. 7

Doing their own writing, or using scabs? The one I guess I can live with, but the other?

ION, am caught in the middle again on this annoying work project where on the one side is a neurotic control freak on the one hand and couple of higher level experts in the company on the other hand. We have calls and meetings and decide how to proceed, and then the two expert guys fucking disappear and I get to keep reassuring control freak that everything is on track as she gets progressively more batshit.

And the thing is, I know these guys, and I know they'll come through in the end. But it will be the very end because given their workloads and other client commitments, this project is simply not that high priority.

But I can't just say that to freaked-out chick, because it's her big deal. And business-wise, the two guys are more important to me in my role. So I can't throw them under the bus and just say "look, B and T haven't given me anything, they're not returning my phone calls, and I can't move forward unless they do, so we're just fucking stuck, ok?"

So I get to blow smoke at her for two weeks, she clearly sees me as totally obstructionist and slacking, and the two guys continue on their merry way. I want to stab all three of them in the face.

I did a good deed at work, after the clusterfuck of yesterday. There's someone who's in the middle of many many clusterfucks. I'm not even sure how much is her fault, but I'm pretty sure most of it is the fault of policies set by her boss. But whatever, I'd hate to have everyone mad at me all the time, even if it is my fault. So I said that to her (not the part about it being her fault, the part about how I know how much shit she gets from so many people), and I think she was really touched. I think no one actually says that to her!

Oh! Also! A coworker brought her little baby in for the first time today, which was awesome -- there was an office-wide announcement and we all came running. But then coworker's partner started talking about mastitis. Dude. TMI! TMI for friends, much less coworkers!!