Teppy, tons of surgery ~ma for your mother. Your family is being unreasonable. You should be able to text one person and they should handle the rest.
Cordelia: You're him. You're Angel's son. Connor: It's not like I got to choose.
'Hell Bound'
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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.
sj - Jun 06, 2017 8:34:12 am PDT #12318 of 30002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Steph L. - Jun 06, 2017 8:40:12 am PDT #12319 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
You should be able to text one person and they should handle the rest.
I don't mind sending a group text, since they're easy to do. I'm just not on board with a bunch of different methods of communication. (The aunt who wanted me to email tried to explain it by saying "I read my email on my phone -- can't you send email from your phone?" And I deserve a medal for NOT saying "I send texts from my phone -- can't you read texts on your phone?" All I said was "I'll send a text when surgery is over -- if that's a problem, call [Other Aunt] in the afternoon and she can tell you what the text said." Which, in retrospect, is just as snarky as my first option, but I don't actually care.)
Laura - Jun 06, 2017 9:02:26 am PDT #12320 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.
Blood-on-the-inside-of-your-body~ma, Zen! Be fruitful and multiply hemoglobin! Or welcome your new immigrants, I suppose. Fill those arteries and veins up somehow.
What -t said! Also, please update when you can, Zen.
Teppy, group text is the best method and you are a good daughter for keeping the others in the loop. I'll be sending the quick and effortless surgery~ma. In lieu of text I'll wait patiently for an update here.
CamelCase. Huh, learn something new every day.
-t - Jun 06, 2017 9:19:45 am PDT #12321 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Your family, Tep. How do they not understand that you might have something else on your mind than each of their preferred methods of notification? Like your mom, that you are kindly notify them about. For example.
You are being very patient with them is how it looks from over here.
That doesn't sound very strategic, Toddson.
beth b - Jun 06, 2017 9:20:15 am PDT #12322 of 30002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
blood in side ma~~~~
surgery ma~~~
relatives think before you ask ma~~~~~
and Camel case makes no sense
Calli - Jun 06, 2017 9:23:32 am PDT #12323 of 30002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Our costs for this service have doubled and more and more people are unsubcribing or classifying anything from us as spam.
My org's IT department sends status updates to everyone for every service they offer. So if a database used by some small subset of the 16th Century Luxembourg Cultural Studies department goes down, all 26,000 members of the organization get an email about it. And another email when it's fixed. One day I got over 10 emails, none of which covered services that I ever use.
It took me longer than I like to admit to set up a rule automatically moving status emails from IT out of my inbox to a special folder. If I have trouble accessing a needed database, I figure I can check the folder then.
Amy - Jun 06, 2017 12:06:03 pm PDT #12324 of 30002
Because books.
Tep, I have a cluestick you could use to communicate with your family ... In the meantime, strength and calm.
Zen! I hope this is resolved quickly.
CamelCase sounds like something the Empress would have for a round-the-world-voyage. "Oh, and in my CamelCase I need at least three flasks, my Wonder Woman bracelets, and my ruby slippers."
Toddson - Jun 06, 2017 12:13:40 pm PDT #12325 of 30002
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
We have a tech support company and every time I make a request I'll get a string of emails, each saying that the ticket has been assigned to a person ... but I'll get up to five, each saying that it's been passed on to another person. They don't actually DO anything, they just pass it on.
As an extreme of CamelCasing, years ago I worked for a group that had hired the son of one of the higher-ups. He was an aspiring actor and felt that much of the office work was beneath him. When assigned to do a big job of data entry, he, um, AMUSED himself by using alternate lower case and upper case letters - as in ThE qUiCk BrOwN fOx JuMpEd OvEr ThE LaZy DoG. So someone had to go in and redo it in something resembling normal text (not me!).
-t - Jun 06, 2017 12:30:38 pm PDT #12326 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I like Amy's version of CamelCase.
Just had an unexpected win with a Faccebook "friend" from high school admitting he doesn't actually have good sources for information on Planned Parenthood's services. Hooray for speaking up!
SuziQ - Jun 06, 2017 12:39:29 pm PDT #12327 of 30002
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
each saying that it's been passed on to another person. They don't actually DO anything, they just pass it on.
I provide some tech support and we have three levels - tickets come in and get escalated to me and if I can't help, they get escalated to the development team. Sometimes the dev team and I go back and forth trading information and the ticket gets passed back and forth. I am SO GLAD the user doesn't get notified with each change.
-t, YAY for "friend" actually using his brain. Now if he will think critically...the world might be a better place.