Yay Gud's new job! Yay Brenda getting to see football!

For anyone who needs to feel better about themselves: I have used up all the data for the 4 phones on our family plan.

Oops. Like tommyrot, I need the 5GB so I can use personal hotspot (mostly for my work computer), but can't complain too much since work pays for almost all my cellphone bill (...when I remember to fill out an expense report in a timely fashion)

I miss having the Personal Hotspot that I lost when I went to a cheaper plan, but my plan is a LOT cheaper, so I guess that's okay. I didn't even use it very often, but it was sure nice to have the option.

That's just silly - re: the holiday party, msbelle. And the data plan business is a drag.

Nice one, brenda.

I have my last Meat CSA pickup at the brewery tonight. Bittersweet. I have one more delivery paid for which will be delivered to my house, supposedly. I followed the Pig & Pickle page on Facebook, maybe that will remind me to go get a beer occasionally. And there's what sounds like a pretty comprehensive Help Plan Tomorrow city workshop tonight that I'm gonna have to hustle to get to. I really feel like I should be at that to at least hear what kind of tomorrow is being planned.

Of course, what I really want to do tonight is watch a lot of TV. I suppose that can wait.

I hung up at that point. That's kinda weird and disturbing, right? Getting a telemarketing call after visiting a website? Or is that common now?

I'm confident it's just a lie. Like the ones that open "I'm calling about the trouble you're having with your computer." I guess enough people go with it for them to get somewhere with it, but I'm it's just a vague enough lie that it applies to some people.

For anyone who needs to feel better about themselves: I have used up all the data for the 4 phones on our family plan.

That doesn't make me feel better about myself or make me think less of you, msbelle. It just makes me mad at service providers.

Your phone may give you an option to receive a warning when you hit a certain data limit, and/or allow you to cut yourself off if you use more than x amount of data.

Yay for gainful employment, Gud!

Brenda, you might want to think about buying a lottery ticket. Random raise, football, maybe it comes in 3s. Then look into buying Buffista island, please.

Congrats, Gud!

Since i know some of you are WAY more organized than I am (yes, the Wondermark cartoon reminded me): anyone have a particular favorite template for planner pages and calendars to be printed on a 3 x 5 card?

Laura makes a good point, brenda. Respect the streak.

Oooh, what Laura said, brenda.

Congratulations, Gud! Nice to see you, too.

Surprise layoffs today. Not me, but people in my department. Ugh.

Yesterday and today have been layoffs here. They offered voluntary retirement to a bunch of folks last month.

I made it through and most of my team seem to still be here. But my old program manager and contracts manager are gone - one to VR and the other got laid off. Now I'm hearing about a bunch of the accounting folks who are gone - from all levels of that group.

This is only the second time (that I can remember)in 23.5 years that we have had such company wide reductions.