Good luck, Hec!

Starting the interview~ma now, Sumi.

So, I got myself a couple of Hue bulbs to see if they'd make waking up and getting home in the dark easier. Waking up, yes: getting out of bed, still a challenge.

Good news: My dad is home from the hospital.

Bad news: I had a voicemail last night from the company that does repairs for my oil company. The leak indicator has popped on my tank and they need to come and drain the water out. (I have no idea what that means, neither does the person I spoke to at the oil company.) I am going to assume it isn't urgent since they haven't rushed to my house, nor have they returned any of the three phone messages I left them.

I have a cold and this morning in the shower I blew my nose and was instantly hit with such dizziness I would have fallen over if it weren't for the grab bar in my shower. Thanks elderly former owners of my house.

There was lots of other tedium (locked out at work, line-jumping Starbucks customers) today, but hey, I'm going to get some hot soup for lunch.

Bad news: I had a voicemail last night from the company that does repairs for my oil company. The leak indicator has popped on my tank and they need to come and drain the water out. (I have no idea what that means, neither does the person I spoke to at the oil company.) I am going to assume it isn't urgent since they haven't rushed to my house, nor have they returned any of the three phone messages I left them.

Sue, I'm assuming you mean your fuel oil tank. If so, I would continue to call the company until you get an answer. I don't know what the Canadian regs are, but if my fuel oil tank develops a leak, the DEP gets involved and there are fines and clean up costs. My fuel oil provider said that it averages to about $10,000 per spill, depending upon how much oil leaks.

If that's not it, then ignore what I just said above.

Take care of yourself, Sue! Yay soup. And yay dad being home.

Today's cubicle debate: GIF, is it pronounced Jif or Gif (Gift without the t)? With revisits to the great "Which is wetter, damp or moist?" debate.

Edit: "I'm going to Google this." "No, don't Google it!" (a few seconds later) "OK, Google says they're pretty much identical." "Yeah, and some people just like to see the world burn."

Gif, obviously.

I cannot muster any enthusiasm for the gif pronunciation question. It does remind me, however, of Terry Pratchett's anecdote re: Magrat. He meant it to be a variant spelling of Margaret, as actually seen in various historical census type documents, but it didn't take long to recognize that all his readers said it mag-rat and therefore that's how it is said.

The good news is I am out of bed. My glasses slipped off the nightstand while I was sleeping and I panicked a little about how I could word needing to work from home because I couldn't find my glasses, but diligent squinting and patting the carpet with my hands paid off. Phew.

As the "G" in "GIF" refers to "Graphic" I think you go with the hard "G."

Good luck, Hec!

Thanks! I'm trying to fend off a bout of magical thinking. "Is this the way I walked Matilda to school for the other pitches?" "If I finish my croissant before they give me my cappuccino we will definitely do well..."

The good news is I am out of bed. My glasses slipped off the nightstand while I was sleeping and I panicked a little about how I could word needing to work from home because I couldn't find my glasses, but diligent squinting and patting the carpet with my hands paid off. Phew.

Time to invest in backup glasses to find the primary glasses.

I KNOW. It's them. Don't hear that. Yet.

sarameg, sorry I posted that a little tone deaf last night. Obviously you know all those things it's just phrasing in a way they will hear and listen too.

I think I'm going to investigate SAD.