My swim times STANK. However, the only fuel I had today was 2 clementines and an oatmeal cookie. After 5 hours sleep, I also had my performance appraisal, 2 long thinky meetings, intense coding and a dentist appointment that left me swimming with half a numb face.

I'm pretty sure my swim was doomed to be slow.

I was also asked if I was interested in my boss's job during the review. Interesting. (Uh, yes?!_)She's not going anywhere anytime soon, but they want to groom me for that career path. And we're heading in some really innovative new directions in the archives. So. It was flattering and also kinda scary! Oh, and the review was fine.

you're right ita, they are 620ml. [link]

My fizz-preserving closures don't quite look like that picture, though.

Oh boy, that was a personal worst. Ah well.

I'm pretty sure I have forgotten I had fizzed a bottle and left it screwed shut in the fridge for over a month and had it be acceptably fizzy when I opened it (I keep bottles full of flat water in the fridge so they will be ready to be fizzed on a moment's notice and am generally forgetful, so I get confused about whether a given bottle should be expected to be fizzy or flat)

I leave filled bottles in the fridge so they'll be cold and ready to fizz but they don't have caps on. Cap on = fizzy. Cap off = ready to fizz.

But my caps look like little lego soldier helmets.

Yeah, I keep the bottles filled with water in the fridge so I can fizz them whenever.

But my caps look like little lego soldier helmets.

Mine too. I like your cap off/cap on code, Cass, but I suspect I would lose the caps if they weren't on the bottles. Hm.

BTW, Cass, I for some reason have a unicorn corkscrew that I think I am supposed to send to you? But I don't have your address. Or know that you would actually want it, really. I don't remember where this conviction that it wants to be yours came from.

I want a soda stream!

I get 5 weeks paid vacation, but it is because I have worked here for 15 years. I can't use it all, frankly.

That moving ice was freaky. Would not be happy to have ice crawling up my yard.

I think they arrested the guy.

Oo, I should go look that up. Thanks, le n.

I hit 4 weeks at 15 years. They just changed it recently so I can't sit on more than 4 weeks in at a time. So I hit 4 and quit accruing until I burn it off. I can so use up 4 weeks and wish I could plan to use more than 4 weeks in a big trip!

I know I've actually got it pretty good for a corporate employee, but it SUCKS in contrast to the main contract folk who have 5 weeks a year from the get go (after a 6 month probationary period) who have a cap that is something insane like a year.

I have 23 days, which rises to 30 in a few years (except that I'm also at a level where they stop tracking it.