Can't drink, smoke, diddle my willy. Doesn't leave much to do other than watch you blokes stumble around playing Agatha Christie.

Spike ,'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.


Steph L. - Jan 08, 2022 11:55:20 am PST #11977 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Does anyone have any recommendations for things to watch?

[Busting in like the Kool-Aid Man]

Have you watched Ted Lasso? If not, it's on Apple TV, and you should drop everything and watch it immediately.


Jesse - Jan 08, 2022 12:00:02 pm PST #11978 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I'm loving the new season of Queer Eye. In opposite news, there's a new Harlan Coben adaptation from the UK if that's your jam. (Both on Netflix)


-t - Jan 08, 2022 12:04:33 pm PST #11979 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

So much TV! Maybe I will give Ted Lasso a try. I totally forgot that I wanted to watch Only Murders in the Building.


Sophia Brooks - Jan 08, 2022 12:31:28 pm PST #11980 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Ted Lasso, Queer Eye, Harlan Coban (which is probably my jam). Check

-t, I was concerned because often Martin Short makes me want to hide under the coffee table, but he was understated, for a Martin Short value of understated, and actually made me tear up a few times! Steve Martin is always good, and Selena Gomez was delightful. Also, the supporting actors were great too- Nathan Lane, Sting, and a tiny tiny part for Jackie Hoffman.


-t - Jan 08, 2022 1:06:06 pm PST #11981 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

It sounds right up my alley I just haven't gotten around to it yet.

I feel like I recently watched something and wanted to ask your opinion about something to do with the costuming, Sophia, but I can't remember what it was. So that's entirely unhelpful.


msbelle - Jan 08, 2022 1:09:06 pm PST #11982 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Work dump: Yesterday I started organizing data from raw data we have been getting since 11/28. Today I am writing up the process document of how to do it, step by step with pictures and links to the various documents. It’s going to take forever and I am dragging my feet. I’m stuck doing this because the people that should have done it, don’t get it or don’t know how. Anyway I’m being asked for reports that are based on this data and I could NOT figure how the data was being processed. I honestly do not think there was a method, just higgledy piggedly being entered ALL BY HAND (no formulas or linking of spreadsheets was happening) in many different places. No notes. I’ve found duplicate files, duplicate entries. I’m not sure all data was even counted because there was NO tracking of what was done (well maybe there is a handwritten something somewhere, but fat lot if good that does the group when we are all working from home).


dcp - Jan 08, 2022 2:04:18 pm PST #11983 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

msbelle, keep a summary note to be included in your performance review, and consider notifying the managers of the people who *should* have been doing this better.


Sheryl - Jan 08, 2022 2:11:10 pm PST #11984 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

Mr. S has decided to get into pajamas already, even though one of the neighbor kids is over. Now we have to convince him he cannot go outside in said pajamas. Oy.


msbelle - Jan 08, 2022 2:14:57 pm PST #11985 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I am going to take this process document in to work this week to be an attachment to my performance review. It’s 5 pages long so far snd will probably be 12-15 when done to document how to get all the numbers they want. Then these next few weeks we can start refining it and finding efficiencies.

Basically no one documents things like they should right now. Too much coming too fast, but it’s a huge problem. And I don’t think it is a skill set that some of the coworkers have.


msbelle - Jan 08, 2022 2:15:46 pm PST #11986 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Sheryl, can’t he just put a coat on over the pajamas? I do.