Buffy ,'First Date'
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.
Jesus christ, let’s hope she got more than $6,000 out of the deal! Conyers cast the deciding vote in the award of a contract worth ONE POINT TWO BILLION DOLLARS. Taking a mere 6K for that kind of work undercuts other hard-working politicians who just want fair market value for their bribes.
Well, the Michigan economy is pretty borked. She probably figured she could buy a couple dozen city blocks in Detroit for that.
John Houghtaling, an inventor whose best-known product shook postwar America, or at least those Americans who stayed overnight in midprice motels, died on Wednesday at his home in Fort Pierce, Fla. Mr. Houghtaling, the inventor of the Magic Fingers Vibrating Bed, was 92.
I am so sleepy. And I do not want to work.
I am trying to decide if I can go home early. My boss is off today and there is really no one else to tell. But I did get here and hour and a half early, so I feel like I could leave at three if my boss were here.
There's three
Actually, Ed McMahon died earlier this week, didn't he?
That would make Mr. Magic Fingers t moment of silence #4.
You should totally leave early! Unless there's some "coverage" issue... I have worked in places that believed it was important to have certain bodies in certain seats at certain times, even when it was bullshit. Like in an office where everyone had a direct phone line, so even if someone did call my boss when I was in and he wasn't, it really didn't matter. And yet! He wanted me there. Meh.
I was sure I read about the Magic Fingers guy earlier in the week. Maybe it was yesterday morning. The whole day did feel a week long.
ETA: He died last Wednesday. The date on the attached in June 20th [link]
I can't leave early - Tom Jones On Happiness Island is playing on the big TVs, and I can't look away. At least not until the speedo boat scene.
[And hey, here's 30 seconds of it on YouTube so you can all see what I'm seeing: [link] ]
my boss is gone and I can probably leave as soon as I want, but I really need to get like 5 more things done. WAH!
I've done some email cleanup and misc., and I have a small project I should really just get done, but I don't want to! I have until the end of the day Monday, so it just feels non-urgent for sure.
I'm covering my department's help desk today, so I'm here for another 2.5 hours. But hey, there's AC, caffeine, and broadband, so I'm pretty ok with it.