Oh, gotcha, missed that.

Timelies all!

So the last two days were pretty nice, weather-wise. No rain, temps in the 70s. So what's predicted for the weekend? Rain, and temps in the high 50s/low 60s.

I'm working from home today and I got to sleep in, which is delightful because I had to get up at 5:30a on Wednesday and 4:30a yesterday.

I feel like I actually got a lot of work done this week and I handled a flurry of escalations all morning, so I've slowly been losing motivation to be productive as the day goes on.

I seemed to go through menopause while I was taking care of my dying father. In between the antidepressants, the Xanax, and the general awfulness, I didn't really notice. I just looked around after I went off the meds and realized I had a cat and my period hadn't been by in a year or so.

This week has had its stresses. I'm among the people who might qualify for overtime with Obama's new legislation. (Yay!) But, people in that category at my job have a very different--and not in a good way--benefits package. So HR is deciding how to handle it. I'm thinking a fat raise to get me and my team above the cutoff would involve the least paperwork, but I suspect that's not the way they'll go. We should see in a few weeks.

In better news, the young men next door are tying one on and singing old Bowie songs. They're in an on-again/off-again band, so they're doing a pretty good job of bourbon-Bowie.

I HAVE NO PLANS TOMORROW AND AFTER I GET MAC AT 6:30, I AM DRINKING AS MUCH AS I WANT!!! which will probably only be 2 glasses of wine, but SO WHAT.

I will join you in two glasses of wine, msbelle! Or at least one, that might actually be enough for me, we'll see.

Good luck with the fat raise, Calli, that sounds like the sensible choice to me.

I heard about a study a while back that determined that it really does rain more on the weekend than during the week in general, something about extra heat and whatnot from rush hour affecting weather patterns. This was 10-20 years ago, though, so may have been debunked or superseded or something.

I know Southerners think it's a sign of basic courtesy, but I find it very annoying to be called "ma'am" every two sentences, especially when it's "I click on the link that just came up, ma'am?" and "It wants my name, ma'am, do I fill in my name?" I just want to yell at them "Stop sniveling, already! Calling me ma'am every ten seconds is not making me think you're especially courteous!"

It's just a habit, Connie, they probably can't help it. I tend towards that a little myself and I know it annoys some of my coworkers but I don't even know I'm doing it most of the time so it's hard to stop.

A business isn't designed to protect the rights of a minority. A business values profit over things like people's health.

A business can't print its own money and raise its own taxes. Bankruptcy looks very different for a country, especially one underpinning the global financial system. Even when you're talking about managing the budget, a government isn't a business. (This is extremely relevant for me when evaluating Trump, with his four bankruptcies and his blase attitude towards defaulting on the national debt.)

Y'all, what am I doing arguing with this person on facebook? On someone else's page, even? Do I think I'm going to convince him of the error of his ways, or make him understand the privilege he's currently enjoying? No. Then why am I spending my extremely limited energy on him?

This was me yesterday. He said he had no privilege and I ended up more frustrated than anything. So not worth it. I even posted links supporting my statements that were dismissed out of hand.

They can hormone test menopause? Huh. I'm so hopped up on anti-depressants, asthma meds, migraine meds, thyroid meds, and it feels like a zillion others (though I haven't had to graduate to the LARGE pill sorter yet), that maybe menopause effects are dulled for me?