Ugh, David. Suckola.

Also ugh, Consuela.

Tom, I deleted and reposted your Good Stuff so the picture will show up on people's dashboards.

How should I be submitting those?

When you go to submit, do you click where it says "Submit a text post"? There you can pick "Submit a photo," and I think that would do it.

That is a pile of suck, Hec. I'm sorry.

Likewise, I'm sorry things are screwed up at work, Consuela.

Successful dinner experiment: chorizo, potato, onion, red pepper, arugula, and apple. Yum.

Dana, that sounds delicious!

Maria, SO SO SO glad about the news.

Kathy, woah. yikes.

Perkins, are you going to be in the bay area on October 16? Wanna have dinner?

Your office sounds just awful.

Well, I can't say it's fabulous, but I've definitely worked in worse places. It's just that there seems to be no real commitment in the organization as a whole to manage staff as people rather than widgets.

I finally made a pitch in a meeting today to have a once-a-quarter teleconference of all the environmental staff, because otherwise nobody ever knows what anyone else is doing, and that can get really quite dangerous. Like, litigation-risk dangerous. Happily, my suggestion was agreed to immediately and if it isn't followed-up, I'm going to push it hard.

The sense I have of the organization is that, for all the reorganizations and everything, it's ossified. Oh, and ridiculously territorial. Everyone's more afraid of losing some of their power/position/people than they are committed to making the organization more successful. Which is just sad.

Consuela, I have run out of gobsmacked-ness at your workplace.

You should take it to a Honda dealer to see if you're still covered.

It is still under warranty, but they claim it's working properly because the battery charges. Never mind that it doesn't fully charge, that my mpg have dropped significantly, etc. My internet research is showing that both Honda and Toyota are being shitty about replacing the IMAs, and for the Hondas that the battery will not send out a "deterioration code" until the battery has 1/3 of its original capacity. Add in my car flooding and the streets shredding my mud guard (I have to borrow a jack from a neighbor this weekend to put pegs in the mud guard under my car b/c right now it's literally dragging on the ground) and my bumper having nearly been pulled off b/c my car sits so low... I don't think Darla's going to make it as long as I had hoped. And my next car may need to sit a bit higher up. But anyway...

Now to go back and see if I can spot the pit.

Best of all, he's approved, without blinking, two days a week working from home. HALLOO.

YAY!

And boo, Hec, that sucks.

Also, comic about the oxford comma: [link]