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.

In re work - I read Ask A Manager regularly. One recent question from a manager was for an industry that routinely requires 100-hour work weeks (!). They were complaining that they hire young people, spend 18 months training them and then, when they're getting good at their jobs, they leave. It makes the manager's life difficult. One of the commenters suggested the company was in investment banking and I was reminded of the person who worked for, I think, Goldman Sachs and died of overwork.

Day 3 of my vacation was actually productive. Cats were fed, groceries were picked up and put in their proper places, and I went over to mom's to carry in an old door from the garage and hang it on its hinges in the master bedroom.

Shrift getting an ADHD evaluation can be great. Meds can also be great.

There is no beach going because thousands of dead fish are on the beach. Little ones. I'm not joking. Jack , who runs rhe Specimen Marinw Lab and my aunt are coming over to check it out. Well mostly Jack.

Dad is at the beach and has been editing Grandma's obituary. I'm the official typist. He doesn't have a laptop here so he was hand writing things and I typed it on Google Drive. He was impressed with how fast I type on my phone.

Gannett newspapers are horrible. You have to submit a draft to get a quote on the cost of the obituary with no info on how much it could cost. Is it 50 cents a wors? 5 dollars a word? Based on length? No one one knows...

It's very important for my dad and his siblings to share who my grandmother was but they also don't want to spend $1000s on the obituary.

I cut a couple bits and it's still at 585 words.

My aunt B (my dad's sister in law) used the term relentless kindness to describe my grandmother or part of her. And that is kind of in the obit but it got changed to unfailing kindness because Aunt J and dad felt relentless was to...pushy or something. I like the phrase but they get thr final say.

My dad was reading what he wrote to my aunt and he broke down and had trouble reading. It's the first time I've seen him like that in all of this.

I like relentless too, askye, I envision her going, "I *will* be kind and you aren't going to stop me!" But it seems like one of those ones where the people closer to it have stronger feelings, so it's simpler to let them have their way (even if it's a little less *colorful*).

Good luck getting through. {{{askye}}}

One nice thing about the Outlet Sale getting postponed, I won't have to listen to Christmas Music before Halloween! Not that I know for sure that I would have, but that's what they've always played during the sale. Of course, that was when the sale was after Thanksgiving. I think we had XMas music last year when it was earlier in November, also. Before Halloween is really going too far for me.