Oh my god. What can it be? We're all doomed! Who's flying this thing!? Oh right, that would be me. Back to work.

Wash ,'Bushwhacked'


Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Jesse - Sep 29, 2014 6:19:21 am PDT #7246 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

It occurred to me that his third leg was kinda' like a dick but I thought, "No one's gonna think that." Of course I was wrong

Hee! I mean, Aw, poor little Tom, but also still: Hee.


Connie Neil - Sep 29, 2014 7:17:53 am PDT #7247 of 30000
brillig

Discovered something disturbing this morning. At the 7-Eleven there was a reward notice for information regarding a murder that took place about three blocks from my house in May. A woman was robbed and strangled in her house. You'd think there'd be uproar about something like that in a conservative, conformist town like mine, but I suspect since the woman was Hispanic that it hasn't made much impact on the general population. There were some headlines when it happened, some hints that they had a suspect. Until I saw that notice, I hadn't thought about it myself. Very sobering.


brenda m - Sep 29, 2014 7:24:11 am PDT #7248 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Fuck fuck fuck. We're having some reorganization here at work. Instead of small teams they will align my folks one-on-one with a Principal. But we were told (after I made a stink) that we would have some input into this. It doesn't sound like that's going to be the case.

One of my peer team leads has been told this morning that she will be aligned with bar none the most difficult and disrespectful person in the group, no way out of it. We're going to lose her over this, there is not a doubt in my mind.

For my own team, I know I'll be tied to one of two people, both of whom I have worked closely with for the last five or so years. I'm good.

But I have two team members that I'm concerned about - one of them I hope will be aligned with the other guy. But that still leaves another who I'm not sure where they would place, and I strongly suspect will be looking at her options if it's not someone she likes to work with.


shrift - Sep 29, 2014 7:34:54 am PDT #7249 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

It doesn't sound like that's going to be the case.

Stressful reorg fist bump?


brenda m - Sep 29, 2014 7:39:43 am PDT #7250 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Backatcha.


brenda m - Sep 29, 2014 7:44:35 am PDT #7251 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

And because I don't have enough going on, my sis took my dad in to urgent care last night at the VA where after four hours of waiting they put him on IV antibiotics for his foot. Jury still out on if it's fractured, as far as I know.

As of this morning his foot is black (I assume - he actually texted that it was back, which would suggest a much weirder range of diagnosis), but less painful. And also he set up a season pass for White Collar last night. Also also he's glad he brought home chili last night because he is having it for lunch today. And finally also he's going to try to go back to the doctor today as instructed.

Conversations with my father.


-t - Sep 29, 2014 7:49:08 am PDT #7252 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

YIKES brenda's dad!


Steph L. - Sep 29, 2014 7:58:38 am PDT #7253 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

And finally also he's going to try to go back to the doctor today as instructed.

I think a black foot might call for that, yeah. (Unless he just means "ridiculously bruised," which sounds like a reasonable outcome of his vehicular adventure. But still worth following up on.)


brenda m - Sep 29, 2014 8:06:00 am PDT #7254 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

I think ridiculously bruised is what he means - they did let him go home from the VA last night, so.

(Also, paramedics who took the word of a 75 year old man who just got run over that he didn't need to go to the hospital, thanks bunches.


Connie Neil - Sep 29, 2014 8:08:30 am PDT #7255 of 30000
brillig

Well, unless someone is unconscious or not in possession of his faculties, I don't think EMTs are allowed to force someone to go to the hospital.