You have the emotional maturity of a blueberry scone.

Giles ,'Touched'


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.


Dana - Oct 04, 2017 5:45:43 am PDT #17386 of 30002
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

Tillerson is about to give an unscheduled speech. After reports leaked that he called Trump a "moron" this summer, I wonder if it's Trump firing him or him quitting out of exasperation.


sarameg - Oct 04, 2017 5:51:22 am PDT #17387 of 30002

The first time you make it apparent you have not read or comprehended an earlier email, I will respond to just you to go back and read previous, icymi. Second time you respond, clearly demonstrating you did not read it, I'm going to reply all and restate myself. 3 different ways.


Jesse - Oct 04, 2017 6:16:38 am PDT #17388 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I am once again having that nagging feeling that if I just gave up sleeping I could manage my life ok.

I have the opposite feeling -- my life would be more manageable if I were sleeping more.

Unfortunately, I will never sleep again. My best team member just gave notice! This is on top of another open position and someone going out on medical leave for six weeks. In our busy time.


msbelle - Oct 04, 2017 6:17:38 am PDT #17389 of 30002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I think I am finally dealing and solving the 2014 tax issue. Fingers crossed we resolve this today ( since I have discovered I made the error and egatvthe solution is) . I might get to scratch one item off the Rebecca Boston Human Disaster evidence list.

I am on hold with IRS and have already made some headway with them by providing the data I left off my initial return.


msbelle - Oct 04, 2017 6:19:10 am PDT #17390 of 30002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Ugh Jesse. Is any of it clerically work you can just get a temp in to be a pair of hands?


Jesse - Oct 04, 2017 6:20:32 am PDT #17391 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Ugh Jesse. Is any of it clerically work you can just get a temp in to be a pair of hands?

If only!

Also if only any of the other applicants for the job I just filled (by promoting an internal person) seemed good still.


Dana - Oct 04, 2017 6:24:45 am PDT #17392 of 30002
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

So apparently Tillerson had a presser to neither confirm nor deny that he called Trump a moron.


Calli - Oct 04, 2017 6:27:14 am PDT #17393 of 30002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Much health~ma for your friend, Matt.

I seem to be coming out of an insomniac phase, which is nice. Now that it's in the 50s at night, I can leave the window partly open and snuggle down under multiple blankets and a cat. I do some of my best sleeping that way.

My department is undergoing a re-org. There seems to be a place for me in the new structure, but it's always nerve wracking waiting to see how these things pan out.

Apparently Tillerson called a press conference just to say he had no intention of leaving. Given the general level of honesty and consistency from this administration, I figure he'll be out by the end of the month.


Laura - Oct 04, 2017 6:43:04 am PDT #17394 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.

Health~ma for your friend, Matt.

Tillerson gone would be nice, but Pruitt and DeVos are even worse. The competition for worst swamp scum in this administration is seriously tough.


Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 04, 2017 6:47:33 am PDT #17395 of 30002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Apparently Tillerson called a press conference just to say he had no intention of leaving. Given the general level of honesty and consistency from this administration, I figure he'll be out by the end of the month.

There's probably a White House staffer with his personal belongings in a box waiting in the wings of the press conference.

In other news, I believe our handbasket has arrived at its destination. Behold, more Belindas in the wild: [link]