brenda, my parents have accents and trim on their house painted bluish grey (with a beige/khaki/I-don't-know-color-names "background") and I quite like it. It does give the house an old weathered look, but pleasantly so imo.

It's weird to say that I had a good time at a visitation for my old roommate's mother last night, but I ran into a bunch of my post-college friends and caught up with them after paying my respects.

That doesn't sound weird to me at all, Matt. Funerals and memorials are one of the few things that brings old friends back together. It's one of the gifts that comes with grief.

Rogue Peacock!

Really, for the writing style and photos.

I hate dealing with the corporate HR about leave. they sent me paperwork that i got YESTERDAY. It needs to be filled out and returend and I get that but I keep getting robocalls reminding me to do this. so I called.

It was like some weird twilight zone conversation where I kept asking "Do i have this right?" and then the person started saying the same info but a slightly different way and confusing the issue. I finally said "Please let me restate what I undersstand and if it's right just say yes without elaboration" and I stated the three points - fill out the paperwork with a return date, if the return date hs changed note it on the paperwork. If after the paperwork is submitted and the return to work date has changed then I need a doctor's note sent in.

That was the correct info but the person said Yes and then went into this long spiel basically repeating the same information I kept saying with some convoluted example. So I stopped and said "Do have this right" Yes but I guess earlier I didn't have it right so he was repeating things because that the beginning of the conversation I didn't understand.

And then I accidentally hung up on him. Honest to god accident he said thank you for calling and stopped talking and as I hit the end call button I heard him start talking.

I didn't handle this mindfully or peacefully but I'm not having an anxiety attack so I'll call this a win. Mostly

I'm fine, Sorrh I feel asleep at desk, woke up fine this morhing having had 7 hours of sleep,

Well, yay for sleep, at least.

Glad you are fine, Gar!

That's as much as a win as we get sometimes, askye. You did okay.

I do wish that Facebook had a "see only original posts from this person" setting.

Askye, that sounds like a win to me.

Glad you're ok, Gar.

askye, what drives me nuts is especially about that latter phrase, in context it's talking about resisting temptation...I.e, God doesn't give you more temptation than you can handle. So, you should be able to manage the not sinning, is the implication. Not God doesn't give you more struggle or suffering than you can handle, he does that all the dang time, Stephen got stoned to death and that was perfectly ok with God, so when armchair evangelicals use it to say buck up, or to bemoan some petty annoyance in their lives, it's wholly eyerolly. Instead they should be using it to challenge their own inner lives and work on becoming better people, if they were paying attention to context,

That doesn't sound weird to me at all, Matt. Funerals and memorials are one of the few things that brings old friends back together. It's one of the gifts that comes with grief.

I think I'd have been more comfortable with it if I were grieving myself, but I barely knew the deceased and went mainly to show respect to my ex roomie and his sister. Ah well, we did apparently lighten his mood reminiscing about old times, so I'll count that as a win.