'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Here is the self portrait link: [link]
Please, no one hack into my email and find my art. Or Amy's email, then too.
I can't believe I have Monday off. Normally I'd extend the pain meds until Monday, but I don't think that's doable now. Or practical, considering.
Hey Liese, I dreamed last night that you showed me one of your cigar-box guitars! It only had three strings, but then when I looked closer each string was made up of like 20 super-thin individual strings. The sound was kinda weird and jangly, but they looked very cool!
Ha! That's awesome! It sounds pretty accurate, except for the awesome individual strings. That must be the Nashville tuning. (Funny to me, because actual Nashville tuning, i.e., higher than usual, is appropriate for cigar box guitars.) I will totally bring one to show you next time I come to town!
The project is going really so well, and I haven't maimed any students yet.
Wow, Colbert showed those paintings on whichever show I finally saw yesterday and I thought they had been mocked up by his graphics department as a joke. Huh.
My last day of work! They actually had a little breakfast buffet for me, which was very sweet. I've been very lucky to work here, for sure.
That's nice, Theo. I'm still sorry it's your last day!
I think the Bush paintings are charming, really. And it's terrible that I'm seeing them, but I'm also slightly heart-warmed by the emails about GHWB's funeral and THINGS NOT TO TELL YOUR MOTHER. Outside of politics, I think the Bush family is probably great.
That's so sweet, Theo! I'm sorry it's your last day.
THINGS NOT TO TELL YOUR MOTHER
This should just be standard mailing list functionality. In fact, an add on to a client that checks your to and cc lines every time and asks "Are you sure you want to tell your mother this??" might be useful.
Some mail systems make access to mail group addresses very locked down -- a reply all will bounce back at you if you try. At HMCo, a department- or company-wide email had to be forwarded to the IT mail team to be sent out.
THINGS NOT TO TELL YOUR MOTHER
There's a sub-category of Things You Told Your Mother and She Forgot, which is even more fraught. The other night Dad called me and put her on the phone so she could yell at me for selling their condo without telling her about it. Fun times!
IONallaboutme, I just learned that the period of performance for my contract is up at the end of this month, although there's enough money to keep it going for another six or eight weeks. But between that and the looming sequestration/furloughs/hiring freeze, even if they do want to hire me, they may not be able to. Joy.
Good lord, Consuela. I am aghast.