And the siblings named Chris are also making me wacky. One's over the cube wall from me, and the his sister was at my desk while I needed to find an email from a third Chris. The brother takes the snarking a little less well than his sister. I just can't believe they have another one at home!

I must have skimmed. Someone had multiple children named "Chris" and you work with two of them?

Arrrggg. Just got off a call with a newish project manager (new to me, not project management). And all of a sudden I realized that someone could play corporate buzzword bingo just off of my side of the conversation. When did I start talking like that?

I think I would still eschew Comic Sans, though it is possibly justifiable in that instance, Jesse. Also, tweet the restaurant. Though if they don't have water, I imagine they're closed--usually restaurants aren't allowed to serve without running water (because then people can't wash their hands)

I am annoyed because the girl I've been seeing was all "I never see you!" and I was like "Well, wanna do lunch tomorrow? Noon?" yesterday. And today she apparently decided to go to IKEA at 11:30. And texted me, and I was like "So, more like 12:30 then?" and then she said sure, and then kept texting me from IKEA and i was like '...12:45?" and then I was walking there and she texted "Maybe a little after 1" and I gave up and was like "No, I'll have to see you some other time". Grrr. WTF, people. If you have plans at noon, backtrack! "It'll take me 20 minutes to get there from IKEA, and I need at least an hour there, and it takes me 20 minutes to get there, so I need to leave for IKEA by 10:15!"

Related to mansplaining, though this is one of the few things of this kind that both men and women do in around equal amounts

[link] McSweeny's and funny.

Any parent I suspect can relate to the experience of total stranger coming up and giving them unsolicited parenting advice.

mind blown.

this was drawn with bic BALLPOINT PENS

Fo' real.

Though if they don't have water, I imagine they're closed--usually restaurants aren't allowed to serve without running water (because then people can't wash their hands)

Good one, good one.

Grrr. WTF, people. If you have plans at noon, backtrack!

Yeah, that's super annoying.

Someone had multiple children named "Chris" and you work with two of them?

I work with Christopher and Christine. I think there's a Kristen. Definitely one more Chris among them.

The actual project we're talking about involves both comics AND kindergarten students, so.

I don't think there's ever a good reason for fonts in email, be it Comic Sans or the most elegant of Bleeding Cowboys. I concede the usefulness of bold, italic, and underline, and Outlook automatically colouring replies is a lifesaver in long business chains, but I don't do that at home. On purpose, at least.

I agree with you in principle. But the latest upgrade in gmail starting creating messed up word wrap in all my emails, so I went to RTF, where stuff wraps properly. I'd go back to an email client, but I have a large volume of email and it downloads horribly slowly. I think it is due to interaction with anti-virus. Thunderbird really sucks on download speed for me and I don't know what other clients would be faster.

I work with Christopher and Christine. I think there's a Kristen. Definitely one more Chris among them.

Huh. That takes me to an "and my other brother, Daryl" place, but hey, whatever kept their parents from referring to "Chris and, oh, you know, the other two," I guess.

My mom often confuses our names. She's done this since we were kids. Sometimes she'll start with her oldest child's name and work her way down until she gets to the right child.

So if she wanted to refer to my youngest brother Dan, she'd often say, "Ji- To-Ka- Dan."