Oh, that's an issue ... once, a few years ago, they were resurfacing the street in front of the building I lived in. For a couple of weeks in advance, they left notices for everyone that the resurfacing would be done and that people should move their cars (it's a narrow one-way street in a residential neighborhood with parking on both sides). Of course, there was one car that wasn't moved. It ended up COVERED in road dust. Don't know how the owner reacted, though.

Is something retrograde? Literally everything I've tried to do for work today (4 different manuscripts/projects) has had a problem that prevents me from getting any work done on said manuscript/project.

I feel like this is a message from the universe that I shouldn't do any work today. (BECAUSE I CAN'T, apparently.)

I did have nachos. They were tasty.

YES.

That may account for the weirdness...

Mercury turns direct at 9:49AM PT (North America) on November 3, 2020

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Not like anything important is happening on November 3.

In between my previous post and now, one work thing did actually come through that I can do (it's author corrections to an article, and for changes to statistics, we always ask the author to verify that the change is okay -- the author keeps answering "This is fine" to those questions, which is making me think the "This is fine" dog is actually the author of this article).

The dog burnt your homework?

There may well be something going on. This week, the organization I work for sponsored its first virtual conference. Since I'm the only one actually in our office - with the phone number people had to call - I've been dealing with people who didn't get their information to "attend" or were having problems and, of course, the email address I give them goes to people who aren't responding. Tuesday and Wednesday were exhausting, since the phones were ringing non-stop and I kept having to apologize to people when I couldn't help them (since, of course, I hadn't been given access to the back end of the system to get people's information). Yesterday was comparatively quiet, but today there are people (! actual people!) in the office and, seemingly, things are not going well.

In somewhat better news, it was brought to my attention that today - October 30 - is Grace Slick's birthday. She's 81 (whimper).

Four hours to vote. Part of the wait was the process0 you go in and there are 3 peopel to help- you have to fill out out the absentee ballot application, which they do on the computer (with hunt and peck slow typing),a nd then it's printed out and you sign, then they have to print out the piece of paper for voting. Then you go to 1 of the 4 voting machines, stick the paper in, and then vote, and then take the paper out and take it to the ballot box thing and insert it face down to be read and counted.

Which honestly that process doesn't take too long, but only 3 people can really vote at a time so it slows everything down.

which is making me think the "This is fine" dog is actually the author of this article

You work with such famous authors!

More reorg meetings for me to cry through while on mute with the camera off, yay. I am getting the feeling that the rest of my team is feeling as blindsided and betrayed as I am, which is kind of comforting, but since all the meetings are with management we are not actually getting together and bitching about it...strange to miss casually complaining in someone's cubicle

Wow, askye, that does not sound like the best possible system. But yay you for getting through it!

You don't have Slack or some way to back c channel, t?

Fingers crossed for LTC's test results!

I'm sorry, -t. Can you set up a casual chat with the coworkers you'd be talking to in cubes? That shit is crucial.

Thanks for voting, askye!

I would like nachos. Alas I have too much other food in the house.