Okay. I've watched 3 episodes of LOST (well, 2 1/2), done my back exercises (ow fucking hell ass OW), eaten pizza, taken magnesium/calcium (allegedly good for sleep), and taken a whole 10-mg Ambien (I usually only take half).

I'm about to toddle off to bed, and I damned well had better sleep for at least 7 hours.

As should ALL OF YOU. Sleep tight, insomniac Bitches!

Yeah, tonight I'm going to take magnesium/calcium and probably half an Ambien, because wow, sleep would be nice.

Sleep well, my fellow insomniacs!

magnesium/calcium (allegedly good for sleep)

I swear by it...or sleep by it, as the case may be.

Sweet dreams!

OK, job hunting Bitches: is it weird to not have a reference from my current (of almost a year) job? Since I work from home, and only occasionally go out and work "with" other employees, there aren't too many people who could really give me much of a reference other than my boss. And obviously he's right out. There are a few people I suppose I ask, but I feel like it would be a little weird, and they're definitely not anyone I worked with MUCH, or who had any sort of supervisory capacity (and...honestly, not anyone that I'm thinking I had the kind of relationship where I'd get a glowing reference. We worked OK together, but...) My boss would give me a good one, but only if I'd gotten laid off or something.

I do have a good reference from my two managers two jobs ago (where I worked for four years) and from my manager at my previous job (but I was only there several months before I was laid off). If needed, I can reach farther back, but it's been a while.

How important is all that? I've never job hunted while employed before, or while so isolated from coworkers, so I've always had handy RECENT references!

sleep~ma for everyone!

IOmeN, Charter cable is a big ripoff. With the digital divide starting yesterday, they've gone and cut my expanded basic back to basic saying that's all I'm paying for. Yeah, because I have internet and part of the package was getting expanded basic for the price of basic. Now, in order to get what I was getting, I have to get a digital box and pay for the expanded basic. I'll do it, but I'm going to look into seeing what else is out there, maybe Dish.

Fucking Charter. They've got us by the short & curlies because we're in a wooded area an there's no way we can get decent reception with a dish. And there's no real competition up here for them. Needless to say, we pay through the nose.

magnesium/calcium (allegedly good for sleep)

Really? I'm taking it for bones and joints. I didn't know about the sleep thing.

Now I'm looking at the two bus tours in DC, thinking about Friday. We got a group of folks, vast majority from out of town. We want to hit a bunch of places not near subway stops, but they ARE near all the stops of the bus rides! Eh? Cheaper than cab fare! And we can all ride in one vehicle. Brilliant? or stupid?

Sounds like a good plan.

I is tired. I'm icing my ankle for a little while, then going to bed.

omnis, I just looked up the etymology of jet, since we were discussing that at Air and Space. Looks like it's from the French jeter. Which is really a far more boring explanation than I expected.

OK, job hunting Bitches: is it weird to not have a reference from my current (of almost a year) job?

No, it's not uncommon. If there is someone you've worked with at your current place, maybe a client even, that's great as a supplement - and you can let them know how sensitive/confidential you need it to be. But it won't raise any eyebrows that you don't give your boss.

I think I may take half a dose of Tylenol PM (says the drug lightweight).

Anyone have a good red beans and rice recipe?

So, I'm on the phone with my SiL, who is complaining about my mother. She went a couple weeks without stopping in to make mom take a bath or do dishes. So SiL checked in with her today, and ended up throwing up twice because of how mom's kitchen smelled.

And my brother has been laid off, so now they won't be able to afford to buy extra groceries for mom. Carla has a plan to make mom take advantage of food pantries to help out. But she is wanting to know if I'll be willing to help out, if mom needs help. Of course I am. Except then Carla mentions that mom has been spending a lot of time with her ex-husband (the one who helped her lose the house my dad bought and paid for) including making meals for him.

So I have to amend my answer, to "not if so much as a crumb ends up in Brad's mouth". Carla said that she really laid into mom about that, and she is pretty sure that will do the trick, for a while at least.