Ah. So "margin" as verb? Like "make time for?"

She didn't actually define her terms. She was using it like a noun, though. I suppose it means "breathing room". I very politely did not roll my eyes when she said it three times in her speech and the rest of The Cabinet nodded like it meant something to them.

Update on the night. CJ did make sergeant. His was the last promotion announced. There was more drama than expected related to a different promotion. Hurt feeling and parents snubbing other parents. Will be interesting to see how that shakes out. Luckily it doesn't (and shouldn't) have a direct impact on CJ.

Funny FB side note - I posted a picture of CJ and his Lieutenant, just bragging on them (their promotions were the least controversial). Well, one of the Board of Directors then posted it on the ARP FB page saying "Congrats on all the promotions". I just hope that doesn't spark any other drama.

Congrats to CJ! I'm sorry about the drama.

sj, I'm glad you got home safely.

I'm hoping to get some actual sleep tonight. To get to the luncheon, we had to leave at 8:30. Ingot about 2 hrs sleep last night. Tomorrow, there is a staff meeting at 8:30 that I suspect will last longer than the scheduled two hours. Then I have to be to actual work at 1:30.

I'd be more enthusiastic about losing sleep for staff meetings if the bosses would schedule them for times when they were going to have to lose sleep too.

Yay, CJ!

Congrats, Sergeant CJ!

Congrats to CJ!

Congrats, CJ! That's awesome!

Rebuttal letter off to my awesome sanity check crew.

Oh! I forgot to tell you guys about the wonderful thing that happened last night. We stopped at my favorite cupcake shop after dinner, and the person at the counter was this awesome punk rock girl with tattoos, blue-ish hair, and tiny devilhorns clipped to her hair bandanna. We chatted with her about some annoying stuff in the news, Pete told her the quote about "If you're under 30, you weren't promised a future with a flying car, you were promised a future with a cyberpunk dystopia. Surprise! You got it!", which cracked her up.

She decided to put some good out in the universe, and gave us our cupcakes as "A random act of cupcakery". I almost started crying, because it was pretty much exactly what I needed to restore my faith in the universe right then.

Jilli, that's a sweet story. Is that quote Pete's or from another source?

I was sad to find out that the girl at my coffee shop that I have become friendly with is leaving. She's moving to RI, so I gave her my number and told her to call if she needed anything.

Is that quote Pete's or from another source?

I think he read it somewhere, but I don't remember where.