Everybody dies, Tracey. Someone's carrying a bullet for you right now, doesn't even know it. The trick is to die of old age before it finds you.

Mal ,'The Message'


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.


Laura - Jan 10, 2013 10:58:33 am PST #7214 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

Our receptionist is a white guy in his 60s. We all treasure him, as do the customers. Best hire ever. He is the only reason we didn't go to an all virtual office, because he wouldn't work that way. So we rented our current space.

So I am considering a bit of a vacation to Jamaica. Flights out of Fort Lauderdale are surprisingly reasonable, like $196 RT. Friend that was our best man lives there most of the time now and has room at his house so it would be super reasonable. The only debate is whether to take the boys with us.


Laura - Jan 10, 2013 11:00:03 am PST #7215 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

That actually happens a lot in Upstate NY. You stop, and the deer runs into the side of your car.

Yep. I think my sister has had 4 hit her over the years. Although usually it was just the inability to stop short on snow/ice.


msbelle - Jan 10, 2013 11:00:20 am PST #7216 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

school shooting in CA? people have any info on this?


tommyrot - Jan 10, 2013 11:01:08 am PST #7217 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.

I heard an adult and a student were injured. The student's injuries are not life-threatening.


Laura - Jan 10, 2013 11:06:32 am PST #7218 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

Oh, remembered that the local paper posted a deer in the road picture a few days ago. [link]

Local as in where I live in the summer!


DavidS - Jan 10, 2013 11:12:37 am PST #7219 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Chicago Tribune says:

Gunfire erupted on Thursday at a California high school in inland Kern County in a shooting in which two people were injured, county officials said.

The shooting occurred in a science building at the high school in Taft, sheriff's officials said. Parents lined the block at nearby Roosevelt Elementary School, waiting to take their children home.


msbelle - Jan 10, 2013 11:14:47 am PST #7220 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Thanks. someone at work just said "another school shooting. in CA" and I was in the middle of a task.

Thanks all.


meara - Jan 10, 2013 11:15:23 am PST #7221 of 30001

So I am considering a bit of a vacation to Jamaica. Flights out of Fort Lauderdale are surprisingly reasonable, like $196 RT. Friend that was our best man lives there most of the time now and has room at his house so it would be super reasonable.

That sounds awesome! Do it! Don't bring the boys. Unless you think they'll trash the place while you're gone or something. :)

but seeing someone who was right where I was 30 years ago, and now has a better job, even though I don't want her job...the part of my brain that lies to me is kinda mean.

Oh, I hear ya. On the one hand, I've done much better, career-wise, than some people I know. But then I look at some of the folks I've worked with in the past and want to kick them, because they happened to have their career go a different (better) direction, mostly just by happenstance and being in the right place at the right time.


msbelle - Jan 10, 2013 11:21:00 am PST #7222 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

but seeing someone who was right where I was 30 years ago, and now has a better job, even though I don't want her job...the part of my brain that lies to me is kinda mean.

I think of my undergrad college friends who were so oohhh ahhh when I went straight to grad school and then was working in my field, but now I am an admin (by choice) and some of them get it, but others are thoroughly confused. Many many different paths and reasons for them. I get times where I am not happy with my job, but moving higher up would really not be better.


Tom Scola - Jan 10, 2013 11:23:09 am PST #7223 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

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