Well, a gathering is brie, mellow song stylings; shindig, dip, less mellow song stylings, perhaps a large amount of malt beverage, and hootenanny, well, it's chock full of hoot, just a little bit of nanny.

Oz ,'Beneath You'


Natter 56: ...we need the writers.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Vortex - Jan 25, 2008 9:19:40 am PST #5467 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

I need to come up with an idea for an information service for a professional or cultural group for a group assignment at school. Anyone have any good ideas? I was thinking about something for incarcerated youth, but that doesn't really fit with professional or cultural group, does it?

maybe vacation information for a language group, like a spanish speaking group?


Jesse - Jan 25, 2008 9:32:59 am PST #5468 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Woo hoo, Frank!

I love my debit card because it lets me pay "cash" without actually having any cash. Of course, I also love my current job for paying me enough that I can generally buy things I want with money I already have.


megan walker - Jan 25, 2008 9:36:23 am PST #5469 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Since I am newly working for The Man, what is a low/normal/high raise these days?


Ginger - Jan 25, 2008 9:39:47 am PST #5470 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Yay raise!

I need to come up with an idea for an information service for a professional or cultural group for a group assignment at school.

A way for professionals to barter skills, like trading web design for accounting?

A way for people who work at home to get together for brainstorming, meet for lunch or share information? (www.workatjelly.com is trying this, but it's a little too casual for me.)

A service that helps small businesses find green products, recycle and reduce their energy use? Big businesses have a clear economic gain doing a lot of these things, but small business doesn't have the time or resources.


Pix - Jan 25, 2008 9:46:09 am PST #5471 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.

My pay days are the 15th and last day of the month
Mine too, and I hate it. I loved getting paid every other week, just for those beautiful three-paycheck months. Of course, if we weren't all living paycheck-to-paycheck, it wouldn't make such a difference. Argh. Until embarrassingly recently, it never even occurred to me that someone wouldn't live paycheck-to-paycheck.

Congrats, Frank! Great news!


Kathy A - Jan 25, 2008 9:47:05 am PST #5472 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Megan, it depends on who you're working for. If you've got Frank's boss, you got great raises (congrats, Frank!!). If you've got mine, and you give a decent if not glowing review, you give that employee a 1.5% raise.

Barely a third the inflation rate.

Sucks.


Strega - Jan 25, 2008 9:51:11 am PST #5473 of 10001

Wowzers. [link]

Miss Brennan had an urgent transplant after a virus caused her liver to fail, potentially fatally, when she was nine years old. But she became very ill nine months later, suffering pneumolysis - a breakdown of the red blood cells.

When tests came back, her doctors were astonished to find the girl's blood group had changed from O-negative, the same as her parents, to the donor's blood type of O-positive. Further tests revealed stem cells from the donor liver had penetrated Miss Brennan's bone marrow - a phenomenon her doctors have described as a natural bone marrow transplant.

They say they were even more surprised when they found the girl's immune system had been almost totally replaced.

I imagine so!


Frankenbuddha - Jan 25, 2008 9:53:04 am PST #5474 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Since I am newly working for The Man, what is a low/normal/high raise these days?

I'd say Kathy's probably closer to how a lot of places are going with raises these days. I've been very fortunate the last couple of years, at least in regards to raises, but some have been job title upgrades, some have been market adjustments, etc. I'd say what I thought I was getting is probably closer to how our merit increases usually go here.


Susan W. - Jan 25, 2008 9:53:13 am PST #5475 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

I love my debit card because it lets me pay "cash" without actually having any cash.

Yeah, when I say "cash" most of the time I mean "debit card instead of credit card."


megan walker - Jan 25, 2008 9:59:57 am PST #5476 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Yeah, when I say "cash" most of the time I mean "debit card instead of credit card."

I try to limit my debit card to things I can only pay for online (like Sous Kitchen). It's just so much easier to keep my spending down when I use actual cash. I have $20 left in my wallet, so that's how much I have to spend for the rest of the month.