Raq, tons of ~ma for you & yours.

Am sitting in a teleconference. Am bored. It's about the Set & Prop design. No sound. Fun.

Headache came back around 1am. I wonder if it was related to the food from the party. As I ate leftovers when the head cleared, and then the headache came back. Dunno. Never had a food related headache before, outside of brain freeze from eating a slurpie too fast. And this one was delayed, like get into the system and then cause a headache. Most strange.

Could be nitrates (nitrites?), like in red wine. Also MSG has been known as a headache trigger.

also, hivemind, what's a nicer way to say "inconvenience". I'm trying to say "I don't know why you want me to pretend that it's not an inconvenience", but I'm looking for a softer way to say it.

also, hivemind, what's a nicer way to say "inconvenience". I'm trying to say "I don't know why you want me to pretend that it's not an inconvenience", but I'm looking for a softer way to say it.

A bother?

My shoulder's still hurting. I managed to get through this morning at the office, and got an OK amount of work done, but I was already up to five Motrin in six hours, and just couldn't handle it anymore. So, home now, in comfy pajamas on comfy couch.

Bad headache, leave omnis alone! He needs to bake me stuff!

Also, I think I failed to mention this, but Buffistas kids' pic are teh teh.

Funny story from uni tomorrow, after I'll collapse to sleep. You see, I thought for some reason that having 12 hour day at uni without having a cup of coffee in the morning would be achievable.

I barely dragged myself out into the cold and back home from the last class.

"I don't know why you want me to pretend that it's not an inconvenience"

distraction

additional effort

departure from my normal duties

A bother?

no, not quite. Basically, the issue is that my mother says that I make her feel like she's imposing when she asks me to do something for her. And, sometime she is. It's not like I just sit around doing nothing (which I suspect she thinks is true). More often than not, when she asks me to do something, it means a change in my plans. It's usually not a problem, but she wants me to say yes immediately, without any thought to other commitments, because that's what she does.

Of course, she gets behind the 8 ball a lot because she says yes right away and figures out the logistics later (which, for example, is how I ended up having to travel for two days each way to pick up/take my great aunt to Florida, because she volunteered to pick her up without thinking it through). I'm trying to figure out a way to explain this to her without making her feel bad. And before you say "well, what you said sounds pretty reasonable", I said pretty much the same thing to her and it resulting in crying and screaming. Some of it is residual emotion, but not all.

Sorry for the delay, I was on my hands and knees changing the aisle lights in an auditorium. This involves plugging two thin wires into two tiny holes. I have to grip a flashlight in my teeth. I go back and forth from "this is such a PITA" to "I am such the cool handyman."

Laga, where do you find the farewell videos for the puppies?

Currently the puppies are saying goodbye in the 2nd, 4th and 6th clips. I think Autumn is first and Ando is last.

Puppy-cam main page

Quote from the meeting that generated a Spinal Tap moment in my head:

the sacrificial alter, as drawn, is smaller than the lamb that wants to be sacrificed on it.

where do you get a lamb that wants to be sacrificed? Miliways?

Oy Vortex. Sounds like she wants immediate yes's to every request, and you just figure out what to drop after, cause her lightest whim is more important than any plan or other commitment you have made. Maybe instead of a synonym for inconvenience what you need to say is that you have to stopp and think to make sure it does not conflict with commitments you have already made, and that since your memory is not perfect you may have to double check on occasion.