Dear Building maintenance people:
I am a 47 year old woman on Tamoxifen.
My house never gets above 65, and sometimes that is too warm.
I am currently sitting in my office wearing my winter coat.
YOU ARE DOING THIS WRONG.
Jayne: You wanna go, little man? Wash: Only if it's someplace with candlelight.
'Objects In Space'
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.
Lee - Nov 29, 2012 7:05:07 am PST #2557 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
sarameg - Nov 29, 2012 7:07:10 am PST #2558 of 30001
Yay mac!
Someone just pulled me aside after a meeting and thanked me for how well I diverted X's temper.
Not for the first time either. I travelled with him last spring, and got lost with him driving (the GPS had issues. I had to navigate us out of the lost it put us in using maps that were even less up to date) , and everyone was all OMG, his TEMPER, how did you survive it? He's made people cry and throw things and I was pretty much Buh? (The big lost drive had me informing everyone that they were to all shut up and the only person allowed to give directions or speak about driving was me. And I was the most junior person in the car. But apparently the meanest.)
When he gets testy, I just...I dunno. Summarize the source of his frustration and what will work to fix it and let's ignore everything else extraneous? I also cut him off before he can get a full head of steam going?
I can honestly say that if he ever does manage to go off on me, his ass will be handed to him ice cold and shaved down to splinters. Perhaps several hours after I walk away, but nonetheless.
aurelia - Nov 29, 2012 7:07:32 am PST #2559 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
That is excellent Mac news!
And now I am going to go investigate if they make mini-ball pits.
I'll bet you could make one with a playpen.
Lee - Nov 29, 2012 7:08:08 am PST #2560 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Tempting!
sarameg - Nov 29, 2012 7:09:12 am PST #2561 of 30001
Large laundry basket. And you can get 100s of those balls at any bigbox retailer this time of year....
Lee - Nov 29, 2012 7:09:52 am PST #2562 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Hmmmm
Steph L. - Nov 29, 2012 7:10:26 am PST #2563 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Wait, *I* want a ballpit!
Damn you, xkcd.
Consuela - Nov 29, 2012 7:10:47 am PST #2564 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
le nubian - Nov 29, 2012 7:13:57 am PST #2565 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Go Mac! Amazing progress in like 6 months.
'Suela, there is something to be said for doing the kind of intervention you have done: for yourself and your parents. It was all untenable.
Jessica - Nov 29, 2012 7:22:19 am PST #2566 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset