Congrats on the raise smonster!!!

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Oh, smonster,that is such great news. Congrats on a well-deserved recognition of your skill and merit!!

And what a wonderful experience both sharing your roommate's history and being able to appreciate it in a way that works for her. That's a gift for you both.

I hope everyone's heads are behaving.

I did sleep last night, but you wouldn't really know it from my energy level.

Still, out of bed for an hour and still no crisis...YAY.

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Thanks, everyone. Boss finally forced out his kind of sketchy, slacker project manager* who was on salary, and that suddenly freed up a lot of money! Even though my boss is frustrating sometimes, I think the fact that one of his first actions was to give all four of us a raise speaks pretty highly.

* Oh, the stories, the stories I am hearing one by one. Former project manager is that kind of douchey insecure fratboy type who covers his weaknesses with a mountain of bluster and bullshit, who makes himself feel better by "getting one over" on people. He's done things like "accidentally" order $4K extra tile for a project, and then mysteriously that tile vanished from the storage unit and reappeared installed in his house. He threw me and E under the bus a couple of times in stupid and transparent ways. Now that he's gone, we are hearing from many longtime clients and business associates that his abrasiveness was keeping us from getting referrals and repeat work.

I predict that in two years or so, he will get sued, his doctor girlfriend who's funding his new company will dump him, and he'll be out of business.

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Couldn't happen to a nicer guy, smonster.

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Also, omnis? My version of the "high life" right now entails things like buying contacts for the first time in three years, maybe replacing my glasses that I've had for at least five and are scractched to hell from work, and paying to get my hair cut by a professional for only the second time in over two years. But not this week, because I have $5.70 until Tuesday (not counting savings).

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• so* over today, already. And yesterday was kind of nice.(not great, or anything, but definitely in the good column.)

Why is it that the more we pay the cable company, the worse our service gets?

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Andi, I'd be lying if I didn't admit to a little anticipatory schadenfreude.

erika, I have no idea. I hope your day gets better.

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Awesome news, smonster.

I've been with SIL all morning. Labor, for the record, not much fun. Best guess is about 4pm. Negasi will be my new nephew's name.

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It's probably a weather thing, really, but the timing is terrible. It's hard not to feel like I'm in the "Cox Cable Job" only without a Hardison.

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Negasi is a princely name. May his entry into this world be safe and not terribly prolonged.

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