Oh, Sparky, when I saw the news about your friend's dog, all I could think was how hard it must be for you. I mean, I know you're happy for them, but it doesn't bring Sass home.
Yeah, I saw that on fb, Kat. Fucking asinine.
So today all day I spent time chasing around an artist and getting shit ready for him unexpectedly, and when he got there, late, all he wanted to do was talk about how he'd given up a better gig in Phoenix for our kids. I don't care, motherfucker, I didn't ask you for the gig, you had time in your schedule and asked us. I would way rather have had you not book, and I could have back my cash. Jack, I'll have you know, that the *last band* gave me, because they felt bad taking money from the missions coffers!
But whatevs, my kids enjoyed it, and tomorrow will be your paying gig, (which, don't expect much.) and then I will be done with you.
But that is why I'm sitting at my desk, drinking diet ginger ale, and blearily doing data entry at 9 at night.
Skipping oh-my-goodness-how-can-it-be-that-much-again, because, according to Jon B. "If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me" Oct 18, 2011 8:09:00 pm PDT , today is FAQBaby's first birthday.
Happy birthday, you lovely almost-FAQToddler! With lots of wishes for your father and your mother, too, of course!
What would Edna Mode say? Oh, wait, we know.
I fell asleep last night without sending the daily status report, and I'm waking up today feeling severely under the weather. Thankfully it's a planned day to work from home, but I'm looking nervously at the computer and all the tasks for this project that's getting closer and closer to due.
I sent the
users
a list of things they need to validate for
user acceptance testing
and they're pushing back two weeks later. I guess they didn't think I meant it before? I kept asking them to tell me not just the things they were having trouble with, but what things they'd tested and not had trouble with, so I'd have an idea of how close we were to done, and they kept not answering. Until they sent their manager down to say I was mean.
Dudes--I've been saying the same thing since the year dot--the system can't go live unless you sign off on it. If you can' do that this week, tell me NOW, so we can delay going live until next week. Which they won't do. Then--the only compromise is me not asking them for results. They still have to give them to me, though.
They totally fail to understand how big a deal the project is, and how resoundingly it could fail. ON SUNDAY.
I threw some facts at him, Scrappy, but he'll probably discount them because facts have a liberal bias.
Nicely done. Jesse too. Better than I would have done. Arguing politics is so time-consuming for me, I can't pull stuff off the top of my head like others can and have to look up things.
Liese - insent to profile addy.
Thanks, guys! I just couldn't stand not to have some sort of rational response to his idiocy. A waste of time, I know.
I was more surprised than I should have been that people just repeat these talking points that are demonstrably false.
Can I ask a rookie voting question? So I have a shiny official voter information guide for the California general election. Do people normally (I guess I should say--practically, or ideally) vote on all the propositions? I mean, are you expected to be informed and care and take action on all of them? It's not that there are a lot of propositions up for vote, but there's always a lot of contentious background information.
Do people normally (I guess I should say--practically, or ideally) vote on all the propositions?
I do because unfortunately in California that's where the big changes tend to come, going back to Prop 9.
Anyway, the consequences of Prop 30 this year are pretty huge.
ita,
yes, I think you should vote on all the propositions.
Here is the League of Women Voters guide (specific to CA). LoWV has served me well in several elections in many states.
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