I had to share this with this group. You'll appreciate it.

We are going to my sister's, and they decided everyone attending needed to be vaxxed. I think we're all boosted, too, except for my S-i-L's niece and nephew, but they are vaxxed. It will be just the six of us. A calm Thanksgiving with people who like to play board games. Winning!

We will see my DP's bro and family for dinner out on Monday, AND then we'll see his mom at least once or twice (she's going to the brother's for T-Day), AND I may get to see my friend who lives up there, too. Oh, and DP and I are having brunch on our five year Dataversary at the same place we had our first date, also a brunch. Nice!

We are skipping Thanksgiving this year again. We usually do Friendsgiving but I rented out the local skating rink for 2 hours on Thanksgiving Day. It may only be me, but I will skate and eat pizza.

I had to share this with this group. You'll appreciate it.

Ha!

I have no idea what I'm doing for Thanksgiving this year. The friend that I had done Friendsgiving with went psycho anti-masker. Last I heard she moved to Arizona (because California taxes are as bad as mask mandates...or something, IDK). I'm bummed at the loss of the person she was pre-pandemic, but everything I've seen from her in the last 18-20 months makes me just fine with missing her. I thought my cousin might invite me (or me & bro), but I haven't heard from her. Right now I'm leaning toward picking up a rotisserie chicken and just having a quiet dinner for one. Or just going to a movie. We'll see. Between the pneumonia, then the side effects of the anti-biotics, I've been some variety of "sick" for over a month now - I'll be glad to just have a few chill days at home.

We're going to Thanksgiving at Tim's nephew's house -- I think. Other than one niece who lives and dies by her spreadsheets and Leslie Knope-esque binders, the rest of the family is SUPER casual about planning shit. So as of 3 weeks ago, I heard the plan was Thanksgiving at nephew David's new house (we all think he sneaky proposed to his GF and they want to announce it at dinner), but then I haven't heard a damn thing since then. And if people want me to bring something, I need to know now so I can get it at the grocery store this weekend.

Hmm. Maybe I'll just plan that, no matter where we go, I'll bring a pumpkin pie, wine, and a charcuterie board, and make my grocery list accordingly. Okay, I like that plan.

oh dear lord ... my office has decided we need the MFA - multi-factor authentication - to get on our network

First it tried to force me to purchase MS Office Premium ... fought my way past that. Then I had to BUY the QR code reader app. Now I'm trying to get the MS Authenticator ... and it looks like I'm going to have to BUY A NEW PHONE because Authenticator says my device isn't compatible with the version they have. Either that or not be able to do any work.

It has been a BITCH of a day. Can't get assistance from anyone - it's getting close to 6:00pm and I've been in the office since before 8:00am. We're moving in a week and a half, so I've been packing, trying to get some actual work done, had to walk three blocks out of my way to get lunch. And our tech support can't figure out what the f*ck is up.

I'll be working on Thanksgiving and I'll be 10-7 on Wed so I'm not sure what I'll actually do for any kind of get together. Not sure what Mom is going to do. I think M wanted to have a Thanksgiving dinner I could participate in but it looks like it would have to be Tuesday or Monday so I don't know....

My current schedule is 3pm -9pm on Thanksgiving and 6 am-4 pm on Black Friday but that was a computer generated schedule and I brought this up to the store manager and he said they will try to change it. Usually they are good about not having that kind of crazy schedule.

I hit my head today at work, I was walking into a stock room and had my head turned. I realized there was a fixture right as you walked in but didn't see one of the arm/post things and ran into it. It hit my temple pretty hard. No bruising or broken skin but I have a headache and I felt woozy and kind of out of it for the rest of the day. I filled out an incident report -or well went to Asset Protection and gave him the info while he filled it out- and then went and sat down and rested for awhile. Although that was after I worked a little more. I still have a headache but I don't feel woozy or anything. But it was hard for me to concentrate .

and then when I was trying to find something I heard 2 women who were walking by talking about the Rittenhouse verdict. I didn't catch the first part but one woman assured the other that, yes, she thought the verdict was right. And then the other made the comment about how "I guess now they'll just tear their own community up again for no reason" or something like that.

I heard about the verdict. Matt Gaetz is talking about hiring KR as an intern (although those are usually unpaid positions for Congress). But I guess he'll be getting enough donations that he'll never have to do any actual work.

I rented out the local skating rink for 2 hours on Thanksgiving Day. It may only be me, but I will skate and eat pizza.

OMG that sounds awesome. Would totally go and drag my parents along if I were closer!

That is fucked up, Toddson.

OMG, Todd, that is some next level tech BS. I'd say you've done more than your due diligence and call it a day.