I do love my boss, but I think sometimes she is not the clearest of communicators. She asked if I could do something without changing a link. I say not really because it's a search list and the keywords we set up show in the link.

There's a bit of (I feel) attitude about knowing how search works. Other coworker emails a new URL which is apparently awesome.

So I said I thought we didn't want to change the link and I get back, "No, but if the answer was we can't do it without changing it, I need a new one."

Dude, an effective way to get that? Ask for it. I thought stuff was already in the world using the original link and that it couldn't be changed.

furbaby

Hate that term. It's hard for me to respect people who infantilize their pets. They aren't babies; they are adult cats, and they surely aren't *my* babies. I love my cats and enjoy their company; I take my responsibility for caring for them seriously; I will mourn them when they're gone. But they're cats, not humans. Hell, that's why I like them! If I'd wanted a baby, I'd've had a baby. If I wanted humans in my house, I'd have a live-in boyfriend/girlfriend or roommates.

Zen, you speak the truth and also you are cracking me up.

I have a couple of friends who use the term, but they're just sort of...that way.

Dear History Channel,

I have occasionally enjoyed programming on your network in the past, while growing dismayed by the increasing devotion of schedule time to ice road truckers and people who travel from junkyard to junkyard. But after checking the listings and finding that you are now scheduling Larry the Cable Guy shows in multiple primetime slots, I feel it's for the best that we go our separate ways.

I love my dog but she's not a person. Her penchant for pooping in the kitchen when she decides she can't be bothered to wait until she's let out would be one clue.

I am stuck in San Antonio in the Most Boring Work Conference Ever, and I'm sick as a dog. I went through two packets of tissues yesterday in transit and I am now venturing out into the mobs of spring break tourists to find some Theraflu that I can have the hotel bar mix up for me before I go to bed. (I love Advil-D but it keeps me awake.)

I am also reassured that ita got home safely, that Ginger is sure we're not all going to die from a nuclear apocalypse, and that Grace's surgery went okay.

I have got to get out of here soon. Now annoying coworker is sending me IMs that go like this.

Hey Daisy

I just sent an email.

The subject was The Task I Needed to Do Today

If I'm actually going to do it tomorrow.

Is it ok to email that today?

Why the typing out a few words at a time? Why not write the whole thing and hit send.

Matt, I think that's for the best.

Shouldn't that be...

Matt,

I

think

that's

for

the

best.

DJ, how old is your coworker?

I learned to do that in IM because I didn't have a "typing" indicator and back in the old days, and that was how I learned to let people know I was typing.

Otherwise I would get interrupted typing long responses with "still there?"

Actually it would be like 7 posts, each with a different word.

But it's annoying me in IM, so I'm not doing that to y'all.