SCORE! My department got re-orged into a new division last week (actually, back into the division we were a part of 5 years ago) and today we got an email from the head of said division saying we're getting the 24th off! (Official company holidays are the 25th, 28th and 29th.) Sweet!
Every planet has its own weird customs. About a year before we met, I spent six weeks on a moon where the principal form of recreation was juggling geese. My hand to God. Baby geese. Goslings. They were juggled.
Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
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.
Jessica - Dec 21, 2009 5:00:35 am PST #26514 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Kat - Dec 21, 2009 5:03:17 am PST #26515 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
YAY Google: [link]
Jesse - Dec 21, 2009 5:07:55 am PST #26516 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That's nice, but the nemeses of my two previous jobs are on that list.
Jessica - Dec 21, 2009 5:16:51 am PST #26517 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
tommyrot - Dec 21, 2009 5:37:18 am PST #26518 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Finally caught up in Natter.
Anyone need any last minute gift ideas? I'm here to report that both my gifts to my sons (purchased from ThinkGeek) were big hits. Youngest son Mason got these magnetic Bucky Balls [link] and oldest son Max got the Bliptronic 5000 LED Synthesizer. Of the two, the Bucky Balls were most popular, with my nieces and nephews and siblings borrowing some Bucky Balls from Mason to make stuff out of. I think I'll have to get some for myself.
It's weird that none of my relatives are big-time internet users, as they are unfamiliar with most all internet memes. No one in my family had heard of ThinkGeek. Weird, huh?
Jesse - Dec 21, 2009 5:44:02 am PST #26519 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I have too many gifts/ideas for my mother, and not enough for my father, I think. I guess if I just don't get her the last (lame) thing on my list, I'm OK. I should tell my father to get it instead...
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 21, 2009 5:51:37 am PST #26520 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
But really? How much fun will it actually be if it is crummy out.
I suppose I'm the wrong person to ask about this, as sitting in the lodge near the fireplace sipping hot chocolate (or toddies) seems like the most fun part of a ski vacation to me.
tommyrot - Dec 21, 2009 5:53:55 am PST #26521 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
OK, opinions on this example of Chicago winter fashion? I saw this woman on the train platform last night. She was wearing a regular winter coat (I couldn't tell what she had on underneath), some sort of grey gym shorts, black pantyhose, brightly colored leg warmers and a pair of Converse sneakers.
Calli - Dec 21, 2009 5:56:05 am PST #26522 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
OK, opinions on this example of Chicago winter fashion?
That's . . . a look that hadn't occurred to me before.
Gudanov - Dec 21, 2009 5:57:36 am PST #26523 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
Make the shorts fuchsia and I think she's on to something.