When I heard Dick Clark had died I thought, "So that's where Cheney got his heart from."

Happy Birthdays, beth and bonny!

Hands up: how many people thought he was already dead?

I saw him do a cameo on last year's New Year's Rockin' Eve. He looked and sounded like death warmed over -- like he'd had a stroke and recovered only 85-90% of his speech ability.

yeah since the stroke Dick Clark's age was rerally obvious.

sad though.

I knew Dick Clark could be propped up and could make somewhat understandable sounds, because they propped him up for about 10 minutes New Year's Eve. It was pathetic.

I wonder if they found the painting in the closet.

like he'd had a stroke and recovered only 85-90% of his speech ability.

That is what happened, several years ago. Maybe as many as 10?

I am annoyed by how many people I have to tell things here -- no one talks to each other, apparently. So telling the boss and most-directly-related person a piece of news does not mean that the news will get to another interested person. @@

What is Junior Achievement? They seem to come to my kids' school all the damn time and as far as I can see it's some capitalist indoctrination gig. Am I wrong?

Also, we got a letter from a realtor in GA whom we don't know, with a printout of the MLS listing for our house marked up in red, and his business card, and "I know why your house didn't sell. Call me." This is asshole behavior, right? He's trying to poach us as clients? Should I tell our existing realtor? Or call him up, as him why he thinks the house hasn't sold, and then ream him a new one?

What is Junior Achievement? They seem to come to my kids' school all the damn time and as far as I can see it's some capitalist indoctrination gig. Am I wrong?

You are not wrong.

And the realtor thing does sound like shitty business development, but I don't actually know.

I don't think I'll get it, and will likely humiliate myself in some way during the interview, but hey, they called me, right?

Allyson, perhaps you should instead consider that the hiring team knows what they want, and have decided that you are qualified for the position. If you weren't qualified, they wouldn't have called you: they simply don't know if you're the most qualified.

Shooting yourself down in advance is pretty much guaranteeing you won't get the job, and that's fair to neither yourself nor the people going to the trouble of interviewing you.

And why should you assume you'd humiliate yourself? You are a competent, funny, professional woman. Give yourself a chance.

Can't help with JA or with the poaching realtor.

I just showered an hour ago. The pleasure of workig from home. Though work is driving me nuts, I can't run any of the database queries I can usually run. They just get stuck and never err out.

I did a total health facepalm earlier today. I had shoulder surgery where they removed some bone that will end up growing back as scar tissue. I have chronic anemia. Is it really any surprise that my iron levels bottomed out really quickly over the last month? I see my shoulder doc today and my hemotologist on Friday.

thank you for the birthday wishes