You can only sneak up on me from where my manager sits. And she's normally perfectly loud so that I can have my windows properly arranged by the time she's in view. But my boss is a sneaky ninja, and sometimes he comes basically from where I can see him and I don't notice a thing until it's too late and I'm doing a keyboard smash and hoping the right windows disappear.

Went for a slice of banana bread, and the cafe gave me two, because it was Friday! Whee! And I already had a spare muffin from the morning, so my dinner's pretty well set.

Lunch was 5 Guys burger. Didn't like it so much--the ketchup is really sour. However, they do let grownups order off the "little" menu, so at least I wasn't wasting as much food as normal.

Oh, that reminds me. I have half a sandwich in the office fridge.

In theory. They apparently clean them. Huh!

Timelies all!

Only plans I have for this weekend are visiting the comic book store and buying a Fathers' Day gift.

Denture cleaner is brilliant at getting tea stains out of mugs. And it ate through a bunch of the water depositing in the bottom of the wine carafe that I use for water at night.

I went to see Prometheus this afternoon with about 100 of my coworkers. I don't know what I'm doing this weekend.

I usually use bleach to rid myself of tea stains.

Father's Day? Do I have to go look that up or something? No...my mother's birthday isn't *that* soon.

Man, when I slump in this chair it hurts my buttbone so much that I look like a real freak reseating myself. Poor buttbone. Poor me.

Customer service question #2: Muzak is a punishment, right?

Must be.

ita,

There is an app named after you!

[link]

Okay, who has worked phone support before and can confirm for me that sometimes, if things aren't going well, you "accidentally" disconnect people.

I actually never have, though I occasionally wish I were the sort who would. It's grounds for a lot of trouble if such is suspected at my work.

Fascinating short story about, well, us. Sort of: [link]

It's strongly worded and its message is clear: the Vatican's intrusion is "excessive". Here's the full text released yesterday morning. It is, as James Martin puts it, "fathers and brothers coming to the defense of their sisters. " It's a nuanced and respectful defense of core Catholicism, asserting that the current Vatican's insistence on total control over all issues, even those where there can and should be "courageous discernment", is actually against Catholic teaching, as expressed in the Second Vatican Council.

Schism! Schism! Schism!

Thanks for the Giants Math, tommyrot. Looks like a mix of the pythagorean method used to calculate wins based on runs alllowed vs runs scored (some teams win above or below their pythag, but the pythag is a better measure of their True Talent level and better predicts what they could do going forward) and a Strength of Schedule calculation.

I think that pug just never learned how to coordinate its front and hind legs. You see that sometimes in puppies where the back end starts drifting forwards or to the side.