I recently saw a brief video of a newly hatched snail eating its shell. Seemingly, they use the nutrients in the shell (calcium?) to help form their own shell (they hatch naked ... as do we all).

I'm sorry to gloat about my job when so many of you are in crappy situations, but honestly, my job is so great! I am seriously never leaving here. Even when it's aggravating (and maybe I'm coming in on Saturday again??), it's good. I just got a raise for no reason, because HR did a salary review!

I did reach out directly to an HR person at my current company because I do not think boss had done so. Nothing of it, but at least I reached out. I would be over the moon if a job fell in my lap with this place, it would make things much easier in the short-term.

Despite that, I will never be rich enough to buy holiday cards at $10 a pop, no matter how much I love them. [link] [link]

Jesse, I bet you could find someone with graphics software and take a file to a print shop and get something printed. It might not be QUITE as nice, but you could probably get something comparable.

I have one friend for whom I will spend more than usual for special cards, but I'd have to think twice about over $10 for a single card ... I did draw the line at the $13.50 Halloween card (it's a mask ... a nice one).

$10 cards is CRAZY!

Just came across wording in a job description that is a BIG NOPE, "create a vision and a plan....". Nope nope nopity nope. There will be no visioning and overall from scratch planning. There will be following directions, taking deadlines and making things for to them, there may even be improvements made to current systems, but make up from thin air and figure out how to do . Hells no

I love you people and your snails and your jalapeno balls.

I especially love Sophia.

I am having a terrible week. Don't raise teenagers, and don't work for a dysfunctional place, and especially don't do both at the same time. It's too much.

I would not appreciate that those were super expensive cards if I received one. I mean, I just wouldn't recognize the fact. FTR

Congrats, Jesse!

Your boss is a piece of work, msbelle.

Speaking of bosses, mine just told me to think about trading my JCP [JC Penney]account (which I have had since I started here and they were only carrying one item that we were often out of stock for, but it has grown into a top ten account) for BBB [Bed Bath & Beyond. I guess we come under "Beyond"] (which has a bigger assortment and higher volume and more visibility) and on the one hand it would present interesting challenges (I mean that sincerely, it would be interesting and I'm stagnating a little) but on the other they are so annoying to work with when their current analyst is out! I wouldn't say evil, but certainly annoying.

{{{flea}}}

Hec, was it not you who had the blowing-chili-powder-out-of-the-mortar-and-pestle misadventure many moons ago? Put the peppers down and back away slowly...

-t, the door was unlocked, my neighbor knew somehow. I've no idea why someone would leave their purse behind in an unlocked apartment though.