So today started with IT rebooting the servers without warning (a big NoNo), them not coming up correctly, a frustrating meeting that had both me & boss yelling No! at people, a software install, and an interminable circular meeting with more telling no and tangents. And my period started at the beginning of it all so I felt gross and uncomfortable & my office was too hot & I didn't have 5 seconds to go turn on the ac for hours. And I resent the fuck out of jabber. But slack is even worse.
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 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
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.
sarameg - Apr 27, 2017 1:58:31 pm PDT #10498 of 30002
sarameg - Apr 27, 2017 2:22:11 pm PDT #10499 of 30002
Also, I just managed to fully read an email mom sent this morning, and amidst other unrelated details,she let me know my uncle with dementia has quit eating and drinking and will likely die within a week. BURY THAT LEDE MOM.
Today can fuck off.
Connie Neil - Apr 27, 2017 2:50:11 pm PDT #10500 of 30002
brillig
Coworkers: (rising from the general murmuring) "You know, I did not steal the dude's cheese!"
-t - Apr 27, 2017 3:05:16 pm PDT #10501 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm sorry, sarameg. That's a no good very bad day.
billytea - Apr 27, 2017 3:17:51 pm PDT #10502 of 30002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Is she actually, literally a praying mantis or some other parasite?
Praying mantises aren't parasites! They're full-on sex cannibal predators! (And just the regular variety of cannibal predators, that often gets overlooked. They can quite happily kill and devour another mantis without trying to have sex with it, they don't want you to think they have some kind of compulsion about this.)
msbelle - Apr 27, 2017 3:26:43 pm PDT #10503 of 30002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I am sorry sarameg.
sarameg - Apr 27, 2017 3:36:18 pm PDT #10504 of 30002
Of the five sisters, only mom & Mary will still have living husbands. I hate this chapter.
Laura - Apr 27, 2017 3:41:00 pm PDT #10505 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.
I'm so sorry, sarameg.
Jessica - Apr 27, 2017 3:57:19 pm PDT #10506 of 30002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I'm so sorry, sarameg.
All the kids in my son's school are obsessed with Fidget Spinners. Which every store in town is sold out of, naturally.
sarameg - Apr 27, 2017 4:07:29 pm PDT #10507 of 30002
Thanks. It's been on the horizon a long time, but it still sucks when the inevitable moves from a nebulous place in the future to days away. And I never got one of his amazing pottery bowls made for me (he was a potter, among other things, like world-sought biochemist, before the dementia.) It was something he did for us kids' big milestones like weddings and births, but I didn't do the usual. He promised me one once, but then stuff happened. I may ask my mom for one she has, they have a lot of his stuff. I do have a paper box from his papermaking days.