Kilimanjaro is an immensely exciting prospect!
We gotta go to the crappy town where I'm the hero!
Wash ,'Jaynestown'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
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.
-t - May 15, 2013 9:31:36 am PDT #22498 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
brenda m - May 15, 2013 9:45:12 am PDT #22499 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Random awkward situations today (brought to mind by exciting travel):
The current high-up in our practice group is making noise about having our next annual meeting in Maui, a step up from this years' golf resort in Scottsdale. This is coming up because we have mounds of travel/expense money in the budget - because of the practice lead having a stroke a few months ago. Urp. He's still in rehab, not travelling obviously, and apparently there's a 100k or something burning a hole in someone's pocket?
Also, I'm struggling a bit with a sympathy card for my SIL, whose grandmother died this week. Said grandmother was good to my bro but apparently just horrid to her blood family - which may or may not have something to do with having been put to work in the coal mines by Stalin (presumbably not personnally) at the age of 10.
brenda m - May 15, 2013 9:49:10 am PDT #22500 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Also someone in our Hong Kong office commissioned a song - not an advertising jingle, but like a folksy singer-songwriter inspirational song - based on our corporate tag line. I can't even.
msbelle - May 15, 2013 9:49:49 am PDT #22501 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I just renewed by overdue car registration online. Last year if you missed the deadline you had to do it in person, now they give you up to 6 months to still do it online. YAY!
I realize this is not the WORK I should be doing, but I am getting a wee tired of going in to someone's office every 10-15 minutes with papers and files to ask them what they are and what to do with them. If this guy would give me 30 min of his day to just sit here with me, we could probably finish a box.
Dana - May 15, 2013 10:19:30 am PDT #22502 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
No chemo for my mother. She's met with all of the various doctors post-surgery, and all of her various scores (that I'm having a hard time keeping track of) are as positive as they could be.
Sue - May 15, 2013 10:24:49 am PDT #22503 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Great news Dana!
Connie Neil - May 15, 2013 10:24:56 am PDT #22504 of 30001
brillig
Yay, mom!
tommyrot - May 15, 2013 10:25:48 am PDT #22505 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Yay Dana's mom!
-t - May 15, 2013 10:27:31 am PDT #22506 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Great, Dana!
I am also kind of unable to work today. My one system is tied up running a huge report, and the other system hasn't updated since Monday so is essentially useless. There's not much I can do without those. And the whole department is going to a meeting for an hour, so I can't even bug people to give me stuff to do.
Jesse - May 15, 2013 10:28:44 am PDT #22507 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ah, crap, I keep forgetting to update my computer. Meh.
What I'm currently doing is writing up endless meeting notes while listening to music. It helps so much! It would also help if I didn't take essentially verbatim notes...