-t, I once saw a glass that had a quote from, I believe, Dorothy Parker: "I'll have one martini, two at the most, three and I'm under the table, four and I'm under the host" (martini glass, of course)

Congrats, Matt!! That is awesome.

I would like it to be known, for the record, I have NOT filled it with wine yet. Working. And it's, like 10 am. SUCH RESTRAINT

You are a paragon.

We just got a message encouraging us to use our vacation time, if not actually reduce our schedule and pay, because they aren't going to do furloughs, which seems crazy. I mean, I get the terrible optics of my employer furloughing people, but we are literally paying people who can't work!

I would like it to be known, for the record, I have NOT filled it with wine yet. Working. And it's, like 10 am. SUCH RESTRAINT

Very professional, much restraint.

I have a call in 10 minutes with a contractor about their bid. I want to just accept it, except they proposed $X for Task 1 and $Y for Task 2 -- and I costed $Y for Task 1 and $X for Task 2. So even though the total would be the same, and they're the experts, I have to negotiate with them. Bleah.

Government contracting is the worst, and it would be easier if my coworker were... more effective at her job. Sigh.

Congratulations, Matt! That really is an accomplishment.

RED ALERT! My coworker just asked me if I read THAT website.

Yeah, still real painful.

So many things would be easier if certain people were better at their jobs. Other issues include my company having eleventy million processes and no obvious way to figure out when there's a process, when you have to follow it vs not, and who the heck to even ask. (I'm working on a new project and pretty clueless about where to even begin with a few things, because some of our "normal" procedures don't apply for tiny projects or ones that are very early stage, which is what I usually work on!)

Also congrats Matt!! That's huge!

I would like it to be known, for the record, I have NOT filled it with wine yet. Working. And it's, like 10 am. SUCH RESTRAINT

That's self control.

I have a coffee tumbler that says, "there's a chance this is wine" from High Line Coffee.

Yeah, still real painful.

I audibly gasped when he said the name.

I would like it to be known, for the record, I have NOT filled it with wine yet. Working. And it's, like 10 am. SUCH RESTRAINT

Then there's the Ina Garten approach.

So many things would be easier if certain people were better at their jobs.

You can say that again!!

So many things would be easier if certain people were better at their jobs.

In all the hoohah about "excellence" there's not enough appreciation for "competence."

The hardest part of finishing up my last conference of a long, long day of conferences is hearing the TV downstairs and realizing I need to drag my children away from it when all I want to do is stare at the ceiling and drink wine.