Oh, I picked such a lovely week to take vacation. I wonder how slammed we are with people prepping to take our software out into the flood zones. I've been half-expecting to get a call telling me they want me to come in, and I told Hubby not to answer the phone if the caller ID says work. He said I'd end up going in if they needed me, and I said, "No, I wouldn't."

Of course, it'll end up that next week, when I'm back, is when we'll get solid ten-hour days when we have to work the phones through lunch and sneak bites of whatever we can.

If you went to NY to work in fashion, is it really a good idea to show up dressed in TJ Maxx? Did Devil Wears Prada lie to me?

The bad thing about this tea maker is that with tea not oversteeped, I can always taste the water. So this is where I get the earliest warning that my Brita filter (it's the worst!) needs to be changed. I hate the "warning" cuppa. I wished the LCD timer in the lid had ever worked. I'm not actually going to write down when I change the bugger.

Well, except now I know to come to Natter 70 and look for my post with Brita in it. Cool cool cool.

I am now packed for vacation except my toiletries kit and laptop. Beginning to get excited about driving into the Ozarks tomorrow!

I need to replace my filter, too. But it's the under the sink faucet filter, so I have to unscrew the panel and find out which one it actually is, and then go get it, and then replace it.

I wished the LCD timer in the lid had ever worked.

For a pitcher? Mine is four weeks from reset. It wouldn't work if I was actually a family of four like it presumes but since it's just over-hydrating me? It does okay. I do not like if I can taste the water.

My sister texted me to ask me to check when and what station Parenthood was on.

When did my sister transform into my elderly grandma? I know it's just because she doesn't care enough to go online, but geez.

Matt,

have a wonderful trip! I am seriously jealous. I need a vacation like whoa.

the Halloween google doodle is great.

ita, the ones I found were device specific--not sure if they were the neurostimulator you're looking at, but something similar. If you go to the clintrials website and search migraine and device, then select for open, they'll show up. I did see the PFO study, but vaguely remembered you weren't interested.

I am a bit sad because earlier today I texted the couple I met last week at dancing, asking if they were going tonight. I was thinking of not going, but they said they were, so i went...and they didn't show up! Boo. I got a few dances in, but not as many as I would have liked, and I think I would've preferred to get some work done and chill in my hotel room. Hmph!

OMG, catching up on FB I see one of my two pregnant DC friends gave birth today! Not until 9pm, and I saw them post this morning, so I guess that's better than having it happen yesterday,but eesh!