I keep getting accused of not having ambition, of not wanting to leave my comfort zone. What the hell is wrong with my comfort zone, if it's doing a job well, with confidence and experience? I'm happy being a sergeant, why do I have to want to be an officer?

I don't ever want to manage people, but my skillz have real value. It pisses me off.

Me too. I have mentioned it in some of my meetings with people higher up the foodchain but I think it comes across as "I don't want to move up" when that's not really what I mean - I want a different path to move up and I don't see one.

and it leads to people getting into management who NEVER should have been allowed near it.

Yeah, have definitely seen that. Worked under it, pretty miserably. Had such mixed feelings when she was laid off because while she was not a good manager she had a lot of knowledge and was an asset in other ways. So it goes.

At 4:30 I read an email that gave me a rage blackout, but I can't do anything about until tomorrow, so I just left the office and came home via the liquor store. Now I have wine. I should think about how I'm actually going to handle it, but right now I'm mostly still trying to get my breathing under control.

But what about the cheese, Jesse? Did you not get cheese?

WHY DIDN'T I GET CHEESE?? Now I'm right back where Steph was the other night, with only American and basic cheddar in the house.

Now I'm right back where Steph was the other night, with only American and basic cheddar in the house.

I feel your pain. You cannot make a cheese plate of any kind, much less a rage cheese plate, with American.

There was an ad on the radio this morning touting flowers for MOther's Day, and it listed the things you shouldn't get your wife for Mother's day. One of the items listed was "a skein of yarn", and I immediately said "Unless she's a knitter and the skein of yarn is Malabrigo." I've been on Ravelry so long it's infected me.

You cannot make a cheese plate of any kind, much less a rage cheese plate, with American.

Too true. I mean, you can put American cheese on a plate, but it's not a cheese plate.

You can use the American cheese as a doily for the cheddar. (I do think it makes the best grilled cheese-like food sandwiches, though.)

How's Trump's relationship with Coulter?

I do think it makes the best grilled cheese-like food sandwiches, though.

SO GOOD. Although I made a provolone/muenster grilled cheese recently that was pretty good.

How's Trump's relationship with Coulter?

The planet may collapse under the weight of that much bigotry in one location.