Go Sophia!

Glad to hear your aunt is breathing, Dana!

Mediocre trombones getting out there for the good gigs!

My brother and his girlfriend are down for a visit, so I'll be hanging with the fam tomorrow, I expect. We may totally avoid returns news, I'm not sure.

Question: I'm assuming you don't get vacation days paid out when you leave if there's unlimited PTO, right? Will that change with a limit? I guess I've never been a person who uses all my time off, which maybe is a bigger issue!

Right, with unlimited PTO, there's nothing paid out. I don't remember how much we're allowed to carry over from year to year, but I don't think it will matter much, since I made pretty damn sure to use all my vacation when I had it.

I admire that.

As a salaried empoylee who was once an hourly employee, I have been carrying over the max (5 weeks) for years, and losing some every year. When I moved to this department, I was carrying five weeks because of denied requests, and earning five weeks. I just sort of suck up the losing, because I have unlimited sick time, and I definately use that for "mental health days" where a vacation request would be too last minute. And mental health days are days I just can be a person at work

So tonight at work I took a call for Mountain View Mortuary, where they film a huge percent of cemetery scenes in Hollywood (because it's so gorgeous), and it was a guy calling from the reboot of Veronica Mars! It was very hard not to fangirl.

Just found out a coworker died. I don't need sympathy, it's just whoa. Used to see her all the time & casually chat about cats & houses & work bullshit, but then moved buildings & didn't see her much, though we talked Baltimore via fb fairly recently. Didn't even know she was sick. She only had a decade on me. Meh.

Wow, Amy! Neat!

Sad, sarameg. Those deaths hit me differently than people I'm close to - like how many people that I used to see frequently but casually and don't anymore for whatever reason would I not even hear about if they died?

The highlight of my day was getting to pet and cuddle a tiny kitten one of the managers is adopting. So adorable. I have kitten fever so bad. I don't want a child I want a kitten. I can't get one but I want one.

Rest of the day wasnt too bad . But when I finally got home mom's cat nearly knocked me over trying to get in the house and them Penny used that moment to dart out , a lot almost knocking me ovet

Those deaths hit me differently than people I'm close to - like how many people that I used to see frequently but casually and don't anymore for whatever reason would I not even hear about if they died?

Yeah, I had three co-workers die and two of them were fairly young. One died in a car accident when she turned the wrong way onto a one-way street and a front loader rammed right into her. I think the blade rammed right through her windshield. What a weird way to go. Very Final Destination.

Sophia, don't let them do that to you!! Use your vacation girl!!

I usually carry over the max at my job but that's because I also like to take vacation early the next year and want to make sure I have enough.

Amy, I would fangirl super hard at that. I'm making my friends I'm staying with watch The Good Place, and I heart Kristen Bell so much.