And our managing director just sent us all an email saying the hiring freeze we have been in that I didn't actually know about will continue, people will be offered early retirement packages, and we're all getting our 401k matching funds cut next year. So that's fun.
Here is your cup of coffee. Brewed from the finest Colombian lighter fluid.
Xander ,'Chosen'
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.
-t - Sep 05, 2017 1:21:25 pm PDT #16280 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Jesse - Sep 05, 2017 1:28:35 pm PDT #16281 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh dear, -t! (That could have been my reaction to your last three posts, honestly. But I hope the job stuff stays OK.)
aurelia - Sep 05, 2017 1:30:10 pm PDT #16282 of 30002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
The spiderwebs have ash in them and the sun was red this morning.
This does sound like a line from that 3-eggs-every-morning story.
The mild weather here with hurricanes, floods, and fires seemingly everwhere else has me fully anticipating tornado blizzards in January.
tommyrot - Sep 05, 2017 1:45:23 pm PDT #16283 of 30002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Thunder-snow. With polar bearnados
Scrappy - Sep 05, 2017 2:05:04 pm PDT #16284 of 30002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Polar bearnados is a delightful turn of phrase.
-t - Sep 05, 2017 2:05:06 pm PDT #16285 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Definitely not going to start eating 3 eggs every morning.
I'm pre-emptively stressing a little about the work thing because we (well, definitely I am and I feel pretty confident in including my department and I might include the majority of Operations) are already overworked and underpaid and heading into our busy season. Ah, well, out of my hands.
tommyrot - Sep 05, 2017 2:22:30 pm PDT #16286 of 30002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Sorry about the work crap, -t. There seems to be more work crap floating around these days.
Oh, I got the apartment! Finally got all my ducks in a row for the move and new job. Maybe I can relax now--I feel like I've been under constant stress these last 9 days.
Maria - Sep 05, 2017 2:32:38 pm PDT #16287 of 30002
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
Congratulations, tommyrot! I think you should have a beverage.
Hil R. - Sep 05, 2017 2:36:01 pm PDT #16288 of 30002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Completely random things I learned today: The Nazis once declared a particular font to be a Jewish conspiracy. [link]
Regarding and calling the so called gothic typeface as a German typeface is wrong. In fact, the gothic typeface consists of Jew-letters from Schwabach. Like they later gained control of the newspapers, the Jews living in Germany had seized control over the printing shops at introduction of the printing press, so that the Schwabacher Jew-letters were heavily introduced in Germany.
-t - Sep 05, 2017 2:40:41 pm PDT #16289 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yay tommyrot!
Wow, Hil. That's pretty random.