I love cats and snow so very much.

Our Outlook client has the LinkedIn plugin, so you can see the headshots of the senders and recipients under the body of the email. It's perhaps not the most useful thing--it prioritises the LinkedIn search over your address book or the company one, so you don't always get the most useful email address when you search. But looking over and seeing the CIO's face under her emails is the best thing short of a flashing red light to get me to sit up and pay attention.

I also let certain recruiters add me--the two companies that have placed me, for instance--I'll network with anyone from either of those. The places that still call me two years after they didn't find me a job? NO for god's sake. Don't leave a message about me "still looking for a position". If I am indeed in my third year of unemployment, you're framing this too casually.

I keep getting Linked-In invitations from people I've done tech support for.

I've gotten at least one request from the oustourced tech support company we use for a tiny fraction of our support--most of the support people are sitting within earshot of me, but some strange guy halfway across the country working for a company whose name I keep forgetting who kept me on the line while he narrated himself through fixing my LiveMeeting issue then sends me a LinkedIn request? You seriously search on people who open tickets with you? I am not letting it become the same sort of out of control group of strangers that contributed to me drifting away from FB.

And I love finding ex co-workers, especially the ones from Michigan.

I turn 45 next weekend and have no plans

I am the unobserver, so I have no ideas, but I discovered today that I'm skippy again--I'm thinking of myself as 45, not 44. But 44 is a nice number. 43 was fucking useless, but I always remembered it. Why is 44 slipping my memory (and so soon)? I mean, apart from me getting old and forgetful.

I just had to do the math to confirm 42, not 43.

I'm thinking of doing a massive prune-down of my facebook list, now that the business page is so successful. I am thinking about doing it under the guise of a Lenten social media fast. Not from you guys, though, of course.

And Devi jumped in the shower while I was steaming her. I think she didn't notice the water cause it was hot. Her fur wasn't matted down, but she required toweling. She was sitting there in the tub, just outside the spray.@@

I just did my federal taxes in five minutes, once I really got started (because I have one job, no dependents, no assets, etc.) and it looks like I'm getting a shitload of money back. Which makes me think I've made a mistake somewhere, but could also explain why my financial guy was suprised at how little I'm taking home. So maybe I made the mistake on my W-9 or whatever that is. I'm going to leave it to tomorrow and check again.

I think it's great that Devi is committed to the health plan. When you get cooperation between the caretaker and the patient, the outcomes are more positive, studies (completely unsurprisingly) reveal.

Random shit gets stuck in my head when my sister throws out of context paragraphs at me for editing.

Speaking of sis and throwing, she just sent me the *longest* email (goes off to count...813) about the M/M storyline on Days, and it's because she's really impressed. I'd seen their sex scene, and I thought it was weird because it was very focussed above the shoulders, but apparently it's now achieved a great deal of parity with the straight relationships, so that's really cool.

I think it's great that Devi is committed to the health plan. When you get cooperation between the caretaker and the patient, the outcomes are more positive, studies (completely unsurprisingly) reveal.

Ahahaha! That's one way of looking at it.

This is a wild story: [link]

The show I was just watching had a M/M handjob played for way less laughs than I would have guessed. It was comedic, but more that they were discovered than that they were doing it [spoiler for Legit] (one character was helping a paraplegic masturbate for his Skype GF).

In prime time I can think of potential for three gay couples, and one is a guess--there is opportunity for one on Glee I figure (dunno, never watched it), and there's one on Modern Family and a gay regular on Scandal. Revenge has a bisexual male character--anything else that might lead a regular or recurring character to have M/M relations? Even just a demonstrative relationship, not just asking about sex.

How did I not process there was a character on Scandal called James Novak? Wow, it's like I watch it asleep.