Also, surely Courier has something better he could be doing?

Every time I see him, I think the something better he could be doing is wiping off the body paint and riding off on his dragon to save Pandora.

Uh oh. I complained to Dreamhost that my provocateuse sites have been broken since they moved it to a new server, and they find it "hard to believe". It's been a while since I reviewed site longs--anyone know of a good one for the Mac?

I'm kinda nervous, because:

In looking deeper into this issue, it looks like today alone the total number of hits for your sites in your account is over 1.2 Million hits

I haven't checked my Google Adsense payout recently, but I am pretty sure that is not coming through legitimately. I might have to make sure I'm blocking hotlinking properly.

They'll tell me, like they did before, to take short term disability.

Is short-term disability an option? I mean, yes a couple of months to recover seems like a lot of time, but you might not be in the ER over fifty times a year and be able to have more of the life you want instead of dealing with constant nearly intolerable pain. I mean, if it works. I don't know what kind of downtime the trial requires but... if it works?

You remember that I have a battery in my ass?

I've read worse in fanfic. You could have a baby in there.

JZ thanks those are good analysis. And classic rhetorical techniques. (Rhetoric again not in the insulting sense of empty talk, but Rhetoric in the classical sense of understanding the difference between a spoken and a written argument. Mind you a lot of written communication can be improved by these techniques.)

I suggest incorrect capitalization to solve the confusion. rhetoric and Rhetoric.

They'll tell me, like they did before, to take short term disability.

Also not wanting to be all up in your business, but just for a data point, I took short-term disability when I had foot surgery, and while the pay cut was a bummer, it worked out much better than trying to work when I couldn't walk.

Good grief, the convention has reduced me to tears twice already and they're barely begun the evening's shenanigans.

So just listening to Kerry - it is a powerful, emotionally speech with inflection. As soon as I look at him it seems flat. sad for him.

STD anecdata: my boss had to go on it for almost 3 months after spinal surgery at basically the worst time for her professionally. She had just started as my interim boss, to become actual boss when my current boss burned the last of his vacation and officially retired. It was also the start of the Servicing Mission. She was going to be flat on her back for a month or two, unable to really even check in.

She wanted to postpone it. Even though she was waking up with breakthrough pain in the middle of the night on narcotics. But the mission head and the team were all very supportive of her going ahead with it. It was a little chaotic, and some things did get screwed up, but not irreparably. We made it work. It didn't seem fair to ask her to wait when work COULD be handled without her.

This paragraph:

STD anecdata: my boss

Did not go where I was expecting. Thank god.

AHAH. Oops. Short Term Disability. We used the acronym so much in email traffic, it lost meaning.

I am Flea.

Backtracking, because I am miserably behind: Consuela, I'm sorry for your loss. Cash, I'm so freaking sorry. Ita - all good wishes for the pain to go away. I hope HR gets a clue. They need you at your job. You're good at it. They should figure how to make it work.