Sorry to hear you'll have to be laid up that long, Suzi.
I got my year-end bonus today, and it's the biggest I've ever received—a full extra month's pay. Looks like I might be getting the new phone I've been needing after all.
Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.
Andrew ,'Damage'
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.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 20, 2017 9:12:43 pm PST #20067 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
meara - Dec 20, 2017 10:03:14 pm PST #20068 of 30002
Damn Matt, that's pretty sweet!
Dana - Dec 21, 2017 3:34:44 am PST #20069 of 30002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
So many dogs at the airport! Almost makes up for getting up at 5:15!
hippocampus - Dec 21, 2017 3:46:00 am PST #20070 of 30002
not your mom's socks.
YAY Shrift! Hoorayyyyyy MAC welcome to the road!
Hugs to Suzi if wanted.
ooooghhhh this day
Jesse - Dec 21, 2017 3:47:35 am PST #20071 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So it's my father's birthday today and I cried over breakfast, but hope to power through the rest of it. I kind of want to go to a friend's Blue Christmas service tonight, but it's far away in the burbs and kind of early to get there from work.
-t - Dec 21, 2017 4:27:06 am PST #20072 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Nice, Matt!
Sympathies, Jesse. Do what you gotta do.
Gudanov - Dec 21, 2017 4:32:04 am PST #20073 of 30002
Coding and Sleeping
That's great news Shrift and Matt!
Gudanov - Dec 21, 2017 4:35:05 am PST #20074 of 30002
Coding and Sleeping
I guess my good news is that if I stay in my job for another year I get a significant retention bonus on top of the regular bonus.
Calli - Dec 21, 2017 4:47:34 am PST #20075 of 30002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Go Mac! Yay bonuses for those getting/expecting them!
I wrapped up most of the work that had to happen before the holidays. There's one minor project I'll be working on today, but as I strongly suspect we're changing directions in a way that will make it irrelevant, I'm a little under-motivated. On the other hand, I've produced a buttload of cookies this week: chocolate-mint bark cookies, gingerbread, Bulgarian windowpane cookies (where you see some jam through a cut-out bit) with currant jelly, chocolate-dipped orange shortbread, and vanilla sandwich cookies with apricot jam. Today I'll make pecan puffs. Tonight and tomorrow people will be coming by and—I hope—eating them. The shortbread aside, there's a notable lack of chocolate. I don't think I'll be fixing that, though. Hmmmm—maybe I could dip half of the pecan puffs in chocolate . . .
Jesse - Dec 21, 2017 5:20:49 am PST #20076 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Those all sound delicious!