Happy birthday to aurelia!! I hope you have a birthday filled with delights. May the year to come be all you hope for and more.

Also, wow! That looks like an awesome way to live but no doubt not in my budget. (They are in Fort Lauderdale so I should pretend to be interested and get a tour) Ahhh. A couple options that DH sent me last night to look at - a 66' Alexander Pilot House - [link] and a 52' Hatteras [link] Putting the cart before the horse since nothing happens until we sell the house. He did talk to a broker we have known for many years about the requirements so when the time comes we'll let him find options. Mostly high enough spaces for Brendon.

eta: Ha! Really not living on The World. Have to get an invite even to look. Residences from 3 million for your most basic studio to 15 million or so for something of any size. I clearly didn't live my life in a manner that this was a possibility. Why oh why did I not use my technical talents for hacking banks early on in my career?

Laura, that's probably a question the people on that boat would ask seriously.

$3 million to buy in, and I wonder what the monthly fee is? And if you always have to pay it or if you can not be on the boat some months and not pay as much?

And if you don't pay your monthly fee, are they going to strand you in Antarctica?

Worse - they'll strand you in some coastal area with (shudder) THOSE people.

It did say on the website that it is generally just one residence for their owners. So they aren't there all the time, but they own the space as a vaca home. If out to sea they probably have a heliport or something. The owners get together to decide where they will be cruising. They also said no celebrities are allowed as the owners want privacy, not paparazzi. I'm telling you, we did something wrong that we don't live this way.

"No celebrities allowed" hahahahah. That is amazing.

she was very concerned about two of the “lower than average” results, one of which was “the amount of work required for my job is reasonable” (I’m shocked even half said “yes”! I think I either said neutral or no) and the other was “I am excited to go to work every day”, which I was like “I’m glad to be paid and have health insurance but excited every day seems like a big stretch”

Yeah, that is ridiculous. I really like my job and even I would never say I am excited to go to work every day!

When we did one of those surveys last, the VP of my department was annoyed that "I am provided with the tools I need to do my job" got a favorable rating because he gets complaints about our ERP all the time...

...speaking of, still down, and one of my co-workers is at the outlet sale to help turn away customers so there are only 2 of us left and the one that isn't me is leaving for a dentist appointment so THIS IS A GREAT FUCKING DAY SO FAR

I just realized that the people on The World (what a name for the ultimate gated community, the whole ocean is your moat!) are pretty close to one of the villains from Archer this season in some ways

I also don't know what to be when I grow up, so while I could change careers, not working at all seems like a really attractive option. Unsustainable, but attractive.

So I dealt with this feeling a few years ago by applying for a masters degree and when I started the program I called myself a "career changer", and now when the other grad students ask why I'm in the program and I say "I'm having an expensive midlife crisis" which they all think is a joke.