Sara's class this year has two sets of boy-girl twins, in a class of 14 total. But there's only one grade level each, so there's no way to split them up.
Weird love's better than no love.
Buffy ,'Dirty Girls'
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.
Amy - Jan 17, 2014 3:10:53 pm PST #17451 of 30000
Because books.
aurelia - Jan 17, 2014 3:19:54 pm PST #17452 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
they're going to open a cider-based place downtown.
Excellent!
SuziQ - Jan 17, 2014 3:22:59 pm PST #17453 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Noah and Grace make me smile. So sweet!
aurelia - Jan 17, 2014 3:48:45 pm PST #17454 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Hahahahaha! [link]
Jesse - Jan 17, 2014 3:51:51 pm PST #17455 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So sweet, those twins!
Zenkitty - Jan 17, 2014 4:55:24 pm PST #17456 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Hahahahaha! [link]
Brilliant.
Man, I am still out of sorts from that infuriating email from my boss this morning. I know I'm overreacting, I know she's a dumb-ass bad manager who often says insulting shit without even thinking about it, I know she didn't MEAN to say I'm incompetent, but still. After 14 years of working for her, blowing off all the MANY insults she's given me, why is this one sticking in my craw? Hell, it's not even the worst insult she's given me! I should just let it go. She hasn't responded to my reply, and I know she's going to pretend it never happened, because she has no idea how to deal with it.
And now there's another problem that's just popped up in my inbox. The person whose job it is to figure it out didn't, so I did. And now there's radio silence as everyone passes the buck and waits for someone else (me) to fix it. Nope, not my job. I'd have to fix it manually and it would take me a couple hours, and just no. I'm feeling extremely non-accommodating all of a sudden.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 17, 2014 5:04:26 pm PST #17457 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
3) Avoid from coding from scratch. For anyone but a huge place, the chance of failure is high. Yes, some companies manage it successfully, but it is a huge risk. And every business feels like it is a special snow flake whose needs no standard package can meet, but about 99.99% of the time standard packages - either as is or slightly modified- can accommodate their work flow.
To this I will say - DOE regulations and their random changes. They make it almost impossible to use anything off the shelf carte blanche. Which is why the Legacy systems haven't been significantly upgraded or reworked in eons. We've got it working so they haven't fucked with it. But we may be now looking at a decade of Legacy supporting the company so...I win.
Kat - Jan 17, 2014 6:06:09 pm PST #17458 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
So the guy I went to junior prom with died. The story is either aspiration from vomit or heart problems and then time on life support.
JZ - Jan 17, 2014 6:23:26 pm PST #17459 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I'm so sorry, Kat. Either way is an awful way to go. And your - our - age is too damn young for heart problems (says the woman who's worked for pediatric heart doctors all her life and knows that's bullshit, but still feels like it shouldn't be).
Wishing you Noah and Grace handholding and head-kisses.
Kat - Jan 17, 2014 6:39:22 pm PST #17460 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Weirdly, this is NOT the first person I have had sex with who is now dead. The other person died when we were in college. Car accident.
I am pretty far away from the time in my life where I kept in consistent contact with this guy. It's not particularly sad for me (more shocking) but definitely awful for his family.