I'm fairly certain I said no interruptions.

Buffy ,'Potential'


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.


Jesse - May 24, 2019 3:56:21 pm PDT #8123 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Anyway, I don't mind it! I don't work a lot of extra time, so five hours once a year is fine.


Jesse - May 24, 2019 3:56:41 pm PDT #8124 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I'll basically take Thursday afternoon off for graduation, too.


sarameg - May 24, 2019 3:57:55 pm PDT #8125 of 30019

Our bean counters are really particular about 80 hrs per pay period. Mgmt really has to explain hours over & they hate that (even though it isn't paid overtime), so if you work on a weekend, you take that lost weekend time off in that pay period. Since our pay periods end midnight Friday, you always have at least a week if you can't plan ahead.

Hours under, well, sick & vacation leave is generous enough, it gets used for that.


lisah - May 24, 2019 4:24:06 pm PDT #8126 of 30019
Punishingly Intricate

Man, I am so glad I don't have to keep track of sick or leave time for me or my team.


Karl - May 24, 2019 11:48:33 pm PDT #8127 of 30019
I adore all you motherfuckers so much -- PMM.

Oh dear, that shirt in flea's famous tweet does in fact say exactly what she says it does.

Houses where I grew up: My father's widow Kathy still lives in their house, which they bought in '84. My cousin lives in the "family cabin" my maternal grandparents bought in '68, on the Inverness Ridge above Point Reyes. Lisa and I drove by the house where I spent most of '72 to '83 the last (both as in most recent and as in final) time we went to Tennessee to visit my father and Kathy, in 2014. It looks much the same from the outside.

Sympathies to everyone having job and health trouble; I hope everyone gets much better news soon.


Jessica - May 25, 2019 4:26:43 am PDT #8128 of 30019
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Our summer hours started yesterday, so we were allowed to sign off at 2. Or in my case 3 because I had to clean up after an absolute clusterfuck of a conference call involving a colleague who is very young and very eager to use words he used in his PMI certification class but has zero or maybe negative experience actually leading projects. (And since I'm about to formally move into a new PM role here there is every chance that this will officially be my mess to clean up in the next few weeks. So.)

BUT I did eventually log off, and picked up my new SUP at REI which means on future summer WFH days I can blow off steam by driving myself to the public boat launch and paddling for an hour or two. YAY.

Today we're going on a family bike ride with a picnic at one end, so feeling very athletic and outdoorsy.


aurelia - May 25, 2019 9:42:41 am PDT #8129 of 30019
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

picked up my new SUP

Nice! I enjoyed doing that in Rarotonga, but I fear it will be more difficult (and colder!) on Lake Michigan.


Theodosia - May 25, 2019 10:47:39 am PDT #8130 of 30019
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

I didn't know you boated! Cool!


msbelle - May 25, 2019 10:50:55 am PDT #8131 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

After having Bailey the dog for 7 years, I JUST registered her microchip. And by finding the paperwork know that she is only 8 years old, not 10 like I thought.

So that was a stupid thing I had put off for years and years for no reason (anxiety IS STUPID).

Now to see if I have it in me to do anything else productive today.


Dana - May 25, 2019 11:11:13 am PDT #8132 of 30019
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

It's fucking hot outside, but husband wants to go out again and do more things later. I may need to, because one of the pairs of paints I was planning on taking to Italy is about to give up the ghost.