That sucks beyond the telling, Toddson.

How much trouble would you be in if you just...did what the hardware and software they're making you use is capable of doing, and not building bridges and buttresses to keep those functions you've been doing running? Because, what, they expect miracles? From no consultation with you about necessary programs and no money spent on sending you to learn new things that might make their demands and your job a bit more efficient? Wouldn't doing those things seem, oh, cost-effective and practical, you'd think?

I know, you need the job, but I'd be SO TEMPTED to just throw my hands up and let all the threads unravel and tangle unfixably because *this* is the result of *their* inaction/stupid action, while I looked helpless and whodathunk about it.

Er, not helpful, sorry. I may be projecting too much. I do sympathize, even if I have no practical solutions to offer.

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Urgh, I just got So.Tense. just reading that, Todd. I literally have nothing helpful to add, but hope that at least some empathy might be a balm.

Family-ma, Suzi. I can empathize with you too. Make sure you utilize the car, room, and homework excuse to escape as much as you need.

Someone who bullied and sexually harassed me for years in high school just told me, on a mutual friend's Facebook page, that I shouldn't be upset about Nazis, because "But the hate they are instilling in you is more powerful than their words could ever be. So automatically, you are letting them win." Someone have a comeback, please? I can't fight through everything else in my brain to get anything beyond "Fuck you."

I went with, "If there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's that bullies escalate, and that "Just ignore them" has NEVER worked." Whatever. Fuck him.

I think your response is perfect in the circumstances, and I'm sorry the real pointedness will probably sail right over his head.

Meanwhile I just had to break up a ball of weirdness where my sister's bf decided the hill he really wanted to die on was yelling at a (Jewish, fwiw) friend to look up nazi in the dictionary because WTF DUDE DOES THAT EVEN MEAN ANYTHING AS AN ARGUMENT

I'm sorry, Hil. "Fuck you" is all I have, also.

Huh. He deleted his comment and the rest of the conversation.

Maybe it hit home after all.

While we are cussing people out, fuck my fucking roommate. He is SUCH a child. I'm trying to explain why he can't put plastic bags in the recycling and he's waving his hands in the air yelling "Boundaries! Boundaries!"' I hate him and he's going to make me move AGAIN and I just fucking can't.

Took the rest of the week off and am looking forward to it. Well, looking forward to it being over. Tomorrow we pack all the things, (at least the things we haven't yet packed) and Thursday, the moving van comes. Friday, J leaves with the animals to spend a week with family and then to drive to Michigan with his brother. I move in with my friend Heather for two weeks. I am nervous about every one of those things.

Move ~ma, Scrappy.

My 8 year old would like a purple or blue stripe in her hair - does someone like me, with no experience dying hair, do this with the right product, or should I just take her to my salon (where I got my purple stripe, which may very well be the reason she wants one but heaven forbid anyone tells her she's "just like mom")?