askye, I'm so sorry. The brain is a tricksy beast indeed.

erin, Clorox wipes sound like a winner.

sj, that is one cute bebbeh. I want to kiss her little nose.

Have been sleeping on and off. Didn't have dinner. Should probably eat something, unfortunately am out of yogurt.

Oh, which reminds me, Jilli if you are in the LA area this Halloween, there's a house in a nearby neighborhood that does the most amazing decorations, inside and out.

Argh! We're not going to make it to LA for Halloween this year. Which makes me VERY SAD, as I miss Pix & ND (and everyone else!), and I won't get the chance to visit the Haunted Mansion while it's in the Nightmare Before Christmas makeover.

But between the looming work deadline (Nov. 16th) and Steamcon the weekend before Halloween, there was just no way we could do it. On the other hand, I have a new work environment to introduce to my blood-spattered vampire costume ...

if you have fragrance free, how can lysol be used at all?

This is what I keep asking, but no one is listening. Enforcement is bizarre. The coworker who showed up in a vanilla musk perfume had to go home and shower (and use up sick or vacation time to do so) but the coworkers who fill the air with nasty stinky spray? No one seems willing to speak up. Except me, but then I get gently spanked on the wrist and told "tsk tsk, it's *needed* for cleanup." Such a bizarre culture.

Well the ability to clean up blood is needed, yes. But not something that is being used for other purposes. If it were the ONLY sanitizer, I can see it. It is not. There are wipes. Use those.

I mean, I don't think anyone wants to work where there is unknown blood smeared on a bathroom wall that is just left there. But a wipe is even more effective and cannot be misused and thus wasted.

WTF, are you sharing this bathroom with random strangers off the street, or is it YOUR COWORKERS smearing blood on the walls?!? Seriously, WTF?

I bet it is someone who isn't judicious about wiping their hands after a nosebleed, period, etc.

(RA in a women's floor in college. I have seen EVERYTHING).

Think it's a matter of some people being completely paranoid about leaving any odors in a bathroom. if they can't use the Lysol or some other masking spray, they may be unable to go at all. wipes plus some kind of natural spray might be the best bet.

WTF, are you sharing this bathroom with random strangers off the street, or is it YOUR COWORKERS smearing blood on the walls?!? Seriously, WTF?

Is it just me thinking that this year erin should go with the blood-spattered vampire costume for Halloween?

Bummer that you won't be down Jilli. Last year was the first time I discovered the true extent of this guy's decorations. But there will be other years, and he seems to go all-out every year. Of course the other guy, the one who turns his yard into a haunted graveyard, he's now on every other year or so.

My theory on the blood was an errant used tampon that whacked against the wall and wasn't imediately cleaned up....but apparently it happened repeatedly. There was a whole "check chart" of supervisors checking hourly to figure out exactly when it was happening to try and figure out who was doing it. I have some rather disgusting coworkers, apparently. This is the same workplace that issued a memo a couple years ago reminding folks not to A) trim toenails on work surfaces and B) not pee all over the floor in the bathrooms. Oh, and someone was wiping snot on the men's room wall. I think all of us being essentially penned into one room for 10-12 hours a day gets people a little extra crazy. And we're all screened by a psychiatrist prior to being hired to make sure we're crazy enough to be able to do the job.