I have 3.5 hours of meetings scheduled tomorrow. Yay.
Like any of that's enough to fight the Dark Master. Bator.
Xander ,'Lessons'
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 - Mar 13, 2018 8:23:21 am PDT #23156 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Consuela - Mar 13, 2018 8:32:58 am PDT #23157 of 30002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I'm thinking bad news, because he was one of the few cabinet members who seemed to actually value the work of his department and approach it with the good of the country in mind.
He really didn't, though. He more-than-decimated the State Department, drove out career diplomats with combined thousands of years of experience, and has contributed to the ruination of the US's reputation overseas. That he's not obviously, overtly insane is, in fact, a pretty low bar. He didn't want to start a nuclear war with Russia or North Korea, fine: but his primary goal was pretty clearly not to maintain US interests abroad.
And because he made it a year in the position, he won't get taxed on the $54 million in stocks he sold prior to becoming SoS.
That said, we're not going to be better off with Pompeo in the slot: he's a xenophobic islamophobe, and a Trump toady.
meara - Mar 13, 2018 9:09:06 am PDT #23158 of 30002
Lol, I too keep seeing Pompeo and thinking Ellen
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 13, 2018 9:40:46 am PDT #23159 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
I hadn't heard about Tillerson gutting the State Department. Mainly all the news I've seen about him is his more reasonable conflicting statements with Trump, which is of course setting the bar so low that one needs ground sonar to find it.
Connie Neil - Mar 13, 2018 10:04:52 am PDT #23160 of 30002
brillig
I keep wishing for a grown-up to come in and say, "All right, enough of this." Hey, Your Majesty! Can we borrow Prince Philip?
Jesse - Mar 13, 2018 10:15:19 am PDT #23161 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
But seriously, can we get Ellen Pompeo into the cabinet?
Did some work, including finishing my stupid mid-year reviews, and the cheese bread is in the oven.
So blizzardy outside.
NoiseDesign - Mar 13, 2018 10:20:34 am PDT #23162 of 30002
Our wings are not tired
I'm on my flight halfway to Florida and it's just been a flurry of work emails and office communication (we use Slack) for most of the flight.
Busy. Busy. Busy.
Gudanov - Mar 13, 2018 10:28:13 am PDT #23163 of 30002
Coding and Sleeping
If we can have a fictional character for Secretary of State, I'll take Chrisjen Avasarala.
Atropa - Mar 13, 2018 10:38:36 am PDT #23164 of 30002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Teppy! Paging Teppy! I know the RX notes for the Tessalon Pearls say to take up to 3 times daily, but is it a really bad idea to take them 4 times? Say noon, 5pm, 10pm, 3am?
Steph L. - Mar 13, 2018 10:46:38 am PDT #23165 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
What dosage are the ones you have? 100 mg, or 200 mg?