It did! And in more happy news, four members of the Horde are moving to Washington, and my sister has left Texas for Denver.
Wash: Well, I wash my hands of it. It's a hopeless case. I'll read a nice poem at the funeral. Something with imagery. Zoe: You could lock the door and keep the power-hungry maniac at bay. Wash: Oh, no, I'm starting to like this poetry idea now. Here lies my beloved Zoe, my autumn flower, somewhat less attractive now she's all corpsified and gross...
'Shindig'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
amyparker - Jul 29, 2020 1:42:13 pm PDT #24201 of 30019
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
msbelle - Jul 29, 2020 1:48:44 pm PDT #24202 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
yay for good surgery and also for hugs.
-t - Jul 29, 2020 1:58:55 pm PDT #24203 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
OMG Notorious D.O.G. is awesome! Would be an excellent sibling for Doggy McDoggerson
I probably should not be allowed to have pets
yay for good surgery and also for hugs
Yes, this.
Y'all, I just did a work thing that was a bigger challenge than I expected but explaining what it was and why it was hard to anyone outside my department might be a bigger challenge. I am trying to content myself with basking in the glow of a job well done but I would like an appreciative audience for my accomplishment maybe more...
msbelle - Jul 29, 2020 2:37:46 pm PDT #24204 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Today has not been a great mental health day. Did not wake up with alarm. Did not get out of bed when snooze went off - draggged which set the tone.
Emails from boss about doing something I thought someone else should take the lead on since I have to ask a million questions to do it.
Email from big boss asking for update on doc. Last one I did was 7/14 and I had gotten no feedback on it, so I say that. She needs update of doc in her email by Monday. There are emails that may or not affect it that I have no addressed in another email box. An email box that 4 of us were told to address and it has become only me and again, involves answering questions I very often do not have answers to and do not know where to get them - so another million questions.
Feeling very much I know nothing, am being asked to do things I cannot do. Also annoyed that I had asked someone people in other departments for assistance and GOT NO RESPONSE which I tried to explain to big boss.
ugh wah wah.
Work over I watched Frontline on Alex Jones. JESUS H CHRIST y'all, I mean I already knew, but to see it just so succinct. We are a giant shitshow right now and I think we are going to get it for 4 more years.
Tom Scola - Jul 29, 2020 2:48:30 pm PDT #24205 of 30019
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I think we are going to get it for 4 more years.
The Princeton Election Consortium gives him basically a zero percent chance of winning, based on current polling.
-t - Jul 29, 2020 2:50:24 pm PDT #24206 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ugh on the work stuff, msbelle.
I am so afraid of the 4 more years, msbelle. And I don't know how to turn it into useful prep or prevention or whatever. I mean, here it is about 5 pm and I am ready to go to bed, so my ability to change anything seems pretty low
Gris - Jul 29, 2020 2:53:53 pm PDT #24207 of 30019
Hey. New board.
Princeton Election Commission gave him a less than 1% chance of winning in 2016 too, the day before the election. Their lead guy was the one who said he would eat his hat if Trump won, then actually did it.
538 on the other hand had Trump a 35% chance. They are who I will have some mild confidence in. But I would be shocked if we ever drop below a 20% Trump chance, which is still a solid 1/5, and the asshole is lucky a lot.
Laura - Jul 29, 2020 3:11:54 pm PDT #24208 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
The Princeton Election Consortium gives him basically a zero percent chance of winning, based on current polling.
I worry what he will do if he figures out he isn't going to win. We have more than 3 months before the election for him to cause damage, then we have to deal with him until January no matter what. I've stopped thinking things can't get any worse, because I keep being proven wrong.
Dana - Jul 29, 2020 3:34:38 pm PDT #24209 of 30019
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
It would be great if he fled the country to somewhere without an extradition treaty. I'd be sorry not to see his ass marched to jail, but if it meant that he was gone and we never had to hear about him again, I'd take it.
Gudanov - Jul 29, 2020 3:37:49 pm PDT #24210 of 30019
Coding and Sleeping
I still think Trump has a very good chance of winning. There's still a lot of time before the election and if the COVID numbers start to get better, and the economic numbers sound like they are improving, then things could look very different by then.
Trump is going to have a ton of dark money on his side, Biden will pick a VP that can be targeted in ways Biden can't. Factor is voter suppression effects and I think he could easily get a slim margin in the handful of states that will actually factor in.