You always think harder is better. Maybe next time I patrol, I should carry bricks and use a stake made out of butter.

Buffy ,'The Killer In Me'


Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This  

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.


Steph L. - Jan 02, 2014 5:49:33 am PST #16091 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

It's snowing here, but we aren't supposed to get snowpocalypse (except for how ANY snowfall in Cincinnati is the goddamn snowpocalypse). They're forecasting, at most, 4 inches, but probably more like 2. And this is when I love working from home. Yes indeed.


Jesse - Jan 02, 2014 5:50:39 am PST #16092 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

It's snowing like a bitch here, and my boss told me already she basically doesn't believe in snowdays. So that's nice. We'll see what the organization believes in!


msbelle - Jan 02, 2014 5:53:36 am PST #16093 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

unsurprisingly no snow here, but colder than yesterday, that is for sure.

I so enjoyed having people at my house. I wish it had been more at once and for a sustained time. I think I will invite people over each Sunday for the playoffs.

I also wish I had just finished cleaning up last night instead of stopping at like 85%.

Tonight I have a dinner for a church committee and then my brother gets in (if his flight is not cancelled)at midnight. The guest room is NOT at all ready. Christmas stuff, plus anything I cleared out for the people yesterday is just shoved in there. Afterwork is gonna be busy.


Fred Pete - Jan 02, 2014 6:03:29 am PST #16094 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.

Just gloomy here in DC. We're expecting rain showers later, changing over to snow showers in the middle of the night with a very cold day by DC standards tomorrow.


msbelle - Jan 02, 2014 6:08:55 am PST #16095 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

FYI - Tee fury today has two Community Themed Shirts.


msbelle - Jan 02, 2014 6:45:37 am PST #16096 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

omg, we are currently 3 positions down in the 2 locations I support. 1 position I do not think they are replacing, 1 is down due to illness and I have not heard a timeframe on that person's return, the 3rd position has not yet been approved for filling...AND NOW someone failed a drug test, so we are about to be down 1 more. Crappity crap. It doesn't necessarily increase my workload, but it makes me have to harass people a lot more for paperwork and information I need.

For context, there were 13 non-driver people working in the 2 locations when I started, so it's like a quarter reduction just from loss and slow hiring.


meara - Jan 02, 2014 7:13:22 am PST #16097 of 30000

Ugh. I need to go upstairs and start doing work, but I am just not wanting to. I'm telling myself it's not even that MUCH work and if I get it done I can do other stuff, but...ugh. I opened the computer and looked at some easy emails earlier, but now the things waiting for me are actual work. Why am I not just independently wealthy?


Dana - Jan 02, 2014 7:18:44 am PST #16098 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

Today is "what the hell is this bone in my mouth" day. And also, apparently, "No more hourly work for you from old job" day.


msbelle - Jan 02, 2014 7:26:44 am PST #16099 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

yay for getting the bone resolved, boo for old job deciding that.

meara, you should get some Texas work and I can set up my spare room as a remote office for you and then we can hang out and have the funs!

yeah, so a little socialness yesterday just really made me realize how much I miss it. EVERYONE IS INVITED TO VISIT.


Jesse - Jan 02, 2014 7:33:02 am PST #16100 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Apparently tomorrow is a work from home day. So that's something? I'll have to figure out about if I can get into the files here or what.