I just got an email from my employer, basically saying we're out of work if the shutdown happens. No surprise there.
Buffy: I was regrouping. Spike: You were about to be regrouped into separate piles.
'Potential'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
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.
Consuela - Apr 06, 2011 12:36:40 pm PDT #2044 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Jesse - Apr 06, 2011 12:40:32 pm PDT #2045 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yikes, you guys.
Daisy Jane - Apr 06, 2011 12:42:39 pm PDT #2046 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Between the government shutdown and all the acquisitions lately. A lot of people are going to be out of work. Just when the economy was starting to pick up.
I wonder if that was part of the plan?
Liese S. - Apr 06, 2011 12:42:54 pm PDT #2047 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Oh, guys, this is such rough news. I'm sorry it's all been so harrowing.
Maria - Apr 06, 2011 12:51:16 pm PDT #2048 of 30001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
I'm good if there's a shutdown, but our invoices won't be paid in a timely fashion. Receivables will be a mess, and I'll get yelled at because I won't meet my monthly metrics, but that's nothing in comparison to what friends and work colleagues will be going through.
I'm sorry for anyone who's going to be furloughed.
flea - Apr 06, 2011 12:54:18 pm PDT #2049 of 30001
information libertarian
We'll be fine - it will get to be a pinch if it goes on for more than a couple of weeks, but if it's a day or two it's actually not a big deal, even a little break.
bon bon - Apr 06, 2011 1:01:03 pm PDT #2050 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Don't know if I'll eventually get paid -- the agency paid salaries after the last shutdown, but its current budget is, uh, controversial. All of my peers seem to be ok with about a week's unpaid shutdown. I'd be ok with it too if I didn't have to also go to jury duty!
Jesse - Apr 06, 2011 1:03:51 pm PDT #2051 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It's the best of both worlds!
§ ita § - Apr 06, 2011 1:11:22 pm PDT #2052 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
How lazy is too lazy? If I make ice cream according to the recipe but substitute soy milk for cow's milk (but use real cream) is that going to mess anything up other than jeopardise the flavour?
I mean, anything chemical?
Jesse - Apr 06, 2011 1:13:07 pm PDT #2053 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I bet it's OK, as long as the fat contents are similar.
Speaking of lazy, I just made a potato's worth of chips in my oven, which was super easy thanks to my mandoline, and I might just make another one and call that dinner.