I'd like to have a vaguely sane romantic relationship before I die, but I suspect that might require me to have some kind of fundamentally transformative experience that I wouldn't enjoy very much.

You and me both, Strega. I console myself that I'm fairly content with my own company, so someone else's is an optional extra rather than a necessity.

I remember when you got THAT JOB!!!

We bad a. couple of brownouts this morning & now my computer doesn' t know me. Our network recognizes me but so it makes no sense.

I have been a buffista MORE THAN A DECADE!!!!!!!!

I remember when you got THAT JOB!!!

ME TOO!!!! And I thought it was fairly recent!

Today there is going to be a party because it is my 10th anniversary here.

In May I got my company's 10th anniversary gift delivered in the mail. One week after I was laid off. It's funny now.

Today there is going to be a party because it is my 10th anniversary here. It kinda freaks my shit out a little because I have never stayed on any job nearly this long. There is going to be a party and I am getting an iPad, which will go a LONG way to mitigate my freaked-out shit.

Congrats!

If they don't lay me off in the meantime, I'll be having my 20 year anniversary in 15 months. But I won't be getting anything as nice as an iPad, that's for sure. The gifts catalog has some okay stuff in it, but nothing that pricey.

heh ... talking about going to work for snacks reminded me of a story in the paper the other day. Seemingly, with a hurricane bearing down on us, people stocked up on junk food (no worries about twinkies going bad!). The paper described it "as if Mr. Hyde had gone shopping and Dr. Jekyll had to fix breakfast" (or words to that effect).

ME TOO!!!! And I thought it was fairly recent!

Me three!!!

Man, no sooner did I post about my computer not recognizing me than I had a thought - which I acted on and now I'm back in.

Woo hoo!

(My thought was that my computer had reverted to a previous password and it had.)