Wesley: All right. I'm going to let you all in on something you may have trouble comprehending. I assure you however-- Gunn: Vampires are real. Wesley: I was telling!

'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'


Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.  

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.


-t - Oct 29, 2021 8:18:00 am PDT #10280 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Also, Mexican Gothic was super compelling and also made it hard to sleep because creepy and disturbing


Jessica - Oct 29, 2021 8:27:46 am PDT #10281 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

We're back! Thank goodness, I was worried I might have to do some actual work.


Toddson - Oct 29, 2021 9:21:16 am PDT #10282 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Something we can all agree on: Adulting Is Scary (song parody).


meara - Oct 29, 2021 9:34:14 am PDT #10283 of 30000

Oh no were we down? Glad I missed it.

I super do not want to work today—I drove down to Portland to visit/support a friend and didn’t get here until after 11pm and didn’t get to sleep until after midnight. And then my 8am meeting that I was counting on to put a fire under my butt ended up canceled!! But maybe I can nap later…


JenP - Oct 29, 2021 9:51:43 am PDT #10284 of 30000

It is windy and blustery today, and the street of half flooded, so I think the beach is trying to make me less sad about leaving. (I'm not really that sad; had a great time.)

I'm also learning how to use Instagram today, so, apologies in advance if you follow me.


-t - Oct 29, 2021 10:47:35 am PDT #10285 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Always kind of nice for the weather to not be lovely when it's time to leave the beach. Less taunty.

I have an hour before my next meeting, woohoo! My meetings today are all talking about things other than than the current whatever-this-is outage/closure/mess which seems weird but I guess we do need to talk about this other stuff on the assumption that everything will eventually be fixed enough for business to resume...

Oh, other fun thing, someone said today that if we were scheduled to work the sale yesterday and we didn't show up we would be rescheduled to a later date, which is fine although they'd better check when I am available and not just put me down for whenever they have an opening, but as everyone who heard that said "if we didn't show up? We were told the sale wasn't happening by HR and to not even go to the office but work from home!" but apparently some people got emails from the person organizing the sale that she wanted people to show up for their scheduled sale and turn people away. But not me and not other people who were scheduled, so that's some good old fashioned corporate communication.


msbelle - Oct 29, 2021 11:18:45 am PDT #10286 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Down to 3400+ email for unregistered and /or unvaccinated employees (out of 9000+).

Emailed thyme all again today.

I am pretty sure that # is not capturing all the employees without work emails. No one is giving me an answer about those employees.

Also? I hate everything.


-t - Oct 29, 2021 11:51:30 am PDT #10287 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Hating everything seems like a fair response to that


Laura - Oct 29, 2021 12:04:58 pm PDT #10288 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

That does seem worthy of hate, as does -t's corporate ability to communicate.

I'm miserable with a UTI, again. Usually I can flood it out when I feel the first twinge, but it only got worse. Finally, I broke down and had my doctor call in a script. It is bad enough that I had to make DH go get it because I can't travel a mile to get it myself. Well,' it is more the getting in and out of the car a couple of times that is the issue. Ugh. I have an appointment at the end of November with a doctor to deal with the prolapse that is causing the problem. Bodies be stupid.


meara - Oct 29, 2021 12:47:16 pm PDT #10289 of 30000

Ugh. Bodies are dumb, Laura. I’ve been going to PT for about six weeks for back pain and still feel like it’s doing nothing.

Msbelle that sounds like a Sisyphean task.