Timelies all!

The little guy isn't quite crawling yet(at least he doesn't get up on hands and knees and move) but he can still move himself pretty well along the floor. Which is why I have to get out of my chair every two minutes or so to get him away from things he finds interesting that he should not be playing with.(including, but not limited to: cords, a scratching pad for the cats and envelopes full of old Turbotax CDs) I know, it's only going to get worse...

Thanks, Hil. It was a very low-key ceremony, and very touching. The family was sitting shiva tonight at 6, but I only know the widow through chorus, and I wouldn't have felt comfortable intruding on that.

So I'll be camping out at Anna's with the cats mon&tues. Bonus, I might get to meet her house cleaners and ask them for a bid to come in every couple of months to do dusting and Windows and all that other shit I hate doing.

I love my neighborhood.

Jilli and WindSparrow, thanks for the mentorshop advice!

New coworker seems great, so that's nice. When she finishes her training, she will become our minion.

I'm trying to decide if I should bail on my 8pm meeting because I need to write performance reviews and I have to get up before 5am tomorrow.

Oh, I have mentoring advice! Remember to think about the early-stage stuff that you just do naturally now. My coworker who is a new supervisor just had someone give notice, and I started talking about what to do before I remembered to back up and tell her they need to establish her last day and have her submit a formal letter of resignation before we start with the HR forms.

I believe the undue burden is not the effort required, but the fact that despite their clear intention to deny birth control coverage, there is still a way for their employees to get it. The psychological burden of knowing that some of their employees might be having non-procreative sex is just unbearable.

DingDingDing! We live in an Onion story.

Suzi, that must mean you get to keep it. How can you return it if you never picked it up?

Ooh, my mother had an interesting reaction to that case -- she's offended as a Catholic (former Catholic) that the Little Sisters of the Poor are spending their money on this case!

I finished writing performance reviews. Huzzah.

Remember to think about the early-stage stuff that you just do naturally now.

Yeah, good one. I have tried to be more cognizant of this and in general remember to ask, "Was that too deep in the weeds? Do you need me to explain this at a higher level?"

I make a point to tell new people to please stop me at any time to ask for an explanation, what that acronym means, or how to do anything, really. Like finding the shuttle schedule.

Huzzah on the performance review completion.

Budget finally acknowledged I have a car and they are extending the rental to Friday. I'm checked back into my hotel. The front desk guy even gave me the same room as he recognized my name. They are sold out tonight.

ugh storms, tornado warning for the next 30 min. local sirens going off. rain not even started. do I wake the child and make him move to hall?