it was maybe a law-jargon thing rather than a regional thing?

I would have thought so, but the two people asking me were law librarians too

There's a baby bird in the nest under my deck! I think it might be a robin, cause there was an anxious robin hanging around yelling at us. I always thought the nest was empty from last year, but Pumpkin was sniffing predatorily on the deck just above it, so I peered down in there and sure enough! Doesn't even appear to have fuzz yet. Gonna see if I can get a picture.

do you know what the term "burner phone" means

Yes, but I hang out with people who are active in social justice things and are hackers of one sort or another.

Is softcopy an electronic copy

It's a commonly used term at every tech company I've been at.

Dead groundhog found on a path at work. Flies buzzing all around it.

Except.

It wasn't actually dead. So Ed director and I went out to move it with a wheelbarrow and a very large shovel, and a very little shovel.

Ed director felt compelled to put it out of its misery.

Now, I'm of the mind to let things die like they would if not happened upon by humans. And I told her that if she had nightmares, it was all her fault.

She brained it, I scooped it, tossed it deep in the woods. We pinky-promised to not tell the environmental educator, who was appalled that she was killing the 17 year cicadas in their death throes on the driveway.

I bet that's it. It's a tech term, which the Silicon Valley lawyers here adopted.

Considering that hard copy means paper, I would deduce that soft copy meant digital, whether or not that was a familiar term (which it's not).

TWO baby birds. And definitely robins, I just saw one fly up under there with a worm and heard peeping, No pictures, can't reach it without a ladder from below. Exciting!

I can see them through the slats, so I put an old sign over the gaps so they don't get dripped on.

Yeah, I would've guessed soft copy back formed from hard copy, but I've never ever heard it used.

Juliebird, yay raise!!!!

There's a baby bird in the nest under my deck!

I read this as under your DESK, so I was a little confused at first.

For all that I have negative feelings towards the boss lady heading out the door, shit, she gave us five weeks notice. And is prepping info to keep up us in the loop. Which is more than the last two bosses did ('wraps an arm around Juliebird's shoulder and says "It was nice working with you. Bye!"').

I question whether whether she actually has enough vacation time accrued to keep her planned vacation days (she's out all this week and the last week of July), but even if she takes a dock in pay, I'm sure she doesn't give a fuck. Greener pastures and all that. And why I don't see why we can start disregarding her opinion at this point (like how I should spend my Saturdays). But, basically, all decision-making should be taken out her hands, she has basically two weeks left, part of that is training the ED in excel metrics. I don't see how it's a big to make the executive decision that she no longer has authority over decision-making.

I think I may need to go back and clarify my raise. I've never done that. It was assumed on all parts that I'd get one regardless for assuming Director responsibilities. But now there's the new offer of a raise for a four-day work week with a raise AND working Saturdays. With negotiation for more if someone isn't hired by the time boss lady leaves. I don't know what my leverage is or for how much I should demand with a nonprofit. Or, shit, this is how bad I am, how much I'm going to get come next pay period. I just said yes without negotiation, which is how desperate I am. And sad. I am sad.