Damn, indeed. That...is a story full of mixed emotions.

Note to self: if I get a diagnosis of 'terminal disease', remember to get a second opinion before sewing up my worldly affairs and/or blowing all my savings.

Steph, I missed something -- your mom got fired!?

She did, about a month or so ago. They knew that "restructuring" was coming, but she had always gotten rave reviews at work, and she had been there 9 years, and so the "worst" she expected was having to take on extra work, from the people who got fired.

She never expected that she was going to be one of the people who was fired. The dean of students got fired there -- after 33 years with that school (he started as an English teacher; I had him for American Lit). He was stunned. My mom told me that he's already been hired as principal at another Catholic high school.

It happens, but it's just so rotten when you aren't expecting it.

Liese, thank you for sharing your memories of Ellison Onizuka and his contributions to our history. When I remember the Challenger disaster in the future it will be a memory with another human dimension included.

Weekend: tonight is family movie night with the parents and sister. We are going to watch A Walk on the Moon and possibly The Dish if mom isn't too tired. Sometime over the weekend anyway. Don't know beyond tonight.

Weekend: going up to Maine to hang with family. Going to a local music theater with my Mom on Sunday to see Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Back to MA on Monday (maybe catch HP at a matinee on the way back).

Ford announces intention to replace spark plugs with lasers

Aha! Plentiful lasers for my robot army! AT LAST!

Best to your family Steph. Ease to all.

My DexH and I were in Harry's Diner in La Jolla having breakfast when I noticed that everyone in the place was visibly upset. I asked the waitress what was going on and she, with tears in her eyes, said that the Challenger had blown up. In a weird, automatic response, I squealed, "No it DIDN'T!"

It was so surreal and sad. To this day, I can't explain how deeply it hit me, though I had no personal connection to the program or the event. It still affects me and, forgive me for making a no-doubt inappropriate connection, but every time I see the Air Force Memorial in Alexandria, it brings it all back.

Ford announces intention to replace spark plugs with lasers

...with frickin' sharks attached to them.

Today is SUCH a Monday. I forgot my work laptop at home, and didn't realize it till I was in Boston. My boss told me to come in (not go back home and get the laptop and maybe work from home OH NOES CAN'T HAVE THAT) and use a COMPLETELY FUCKING USELESS loaner laptop which I can't even get to connect to the internet to check WEBMAIL. I end up being able to finally run internet from my boss's old laptop, but I can't connect to anything else.

I would be about a million times more useful if I was working from home, but NOOOOOOOO.

Then there was a tight turnaround project that I can't access ANY of the aspects of, needs to be done today.

I am just so very aggravated.

Weekend: rejoice in the fact I am not at work, and wish upon a star that we win the lottery.

Reason wrangling.