Woot! Both for msbelle and askye!
On the Holt front, massive duck nibbling, but this too shall pass.
Annoyance dump which should be just skip it material. Got autopay deduct for a year of Sirius on the vehicle DH totaled a while ago, and of course don't know the radio ID, or apparently the address or phone number on the account, and both chat and phone support were hopeless, so I emailed. If that doesn't work I'll tell the bank it is unauthorized. Have house inspection Thursday, and supposed to close on the 23rd, so much to do! Mostly just throwing stuff in bins in storage yet again, like we have for 20 years because time to go through things never seems to happen. And a whole long list of other stuff both work and life, and oh yeah, found out from SIL that son left Tesla and got a job closer to where they live now. He actually called her for her birthday, which is more than he did for me, but still good he called someone in the family. Told her I thought I might send him a change of address card when I move, to be polite and stuff.
... thus ends annoyance dump.... unless you want more!
Lots going on Laura. I wish you calm and resolve.
I am losing my motivation today, I just want to be on the inter webs.
Yay msbelle!
I’m in a call with someone who is still arguing we shouldn’t count Ukraine out when we are picking locations. Lady. Wow. I know it’s possible this will be over quickly but even if so will things be back to normal in just a couple months??
meara that just.. doesn't make any sense. I hate when people have ideas that aren't grounded in reality. I mean, support Ukraine but don't put an unnecessary burden on them either. Or possible unnecessary burden.
Laura I hope all things go smoothly.
Oh.. hey.. I'm not feeling super anxious about the neurologist appointment and going back to work.. it's 2 weeks away.. my body is getting all anxious my mind isn't there yet. Also called about my bridge, my dentist is working in another town now and they don't give bridge or crown work to other dentists so right now my appointment to get the temporary bridge fixed is March 10 and my appointment for the permanent one is March 18th (I'm on a cancelation list). I'm not in any pain right now or anything it's just making eating difficult.
Perhaps when hundreds of thousands of refugees are expected to be evacuating a war-torn country is not the best time to scout new business opportunities there?
Gah! Big Boss texted me to see if I was working today less than an hour after sending me an email that required investigation into discrepancies between two versions of a book. Please give me time to figure out what's going on before prodding me for an answer!
Yeah, it’s a case of “should we use a cancer clinic located in Ukraine” and the timeline is “several months from now” but still. We basically agreed that she’s go back and see if it would change the budget to not choose them now but leave Ukraine as an option maybe 6 or 10 months down the road (or maybe not). We shall see. But she was still pushing hard at first and we were all just like whaaaaaaat
I'm reading the WaPo article about the mistakes the Russians have made in their invasion.
The Ukrainians are destroying Russian tanks with impunity. And Russian supply lines haven't been maintained, so they're running out of gas.
The Russians don't want to go in with their planes and destroy Kyiv as happened with Aleppo. They don't want to raze it to the ground. But now the Ukrainians have armed themselves and dug in and they're getting lots of equipment from the west, including highly effective anti-tank missiles, and attack drones which can go after infantry.
And we just did a massive financial sanction that's pretty close to completely cutting Russia off from the US or EU. The ruble is in free fall.
So, Putin's plan to make a lightning strike, kill Zelensky, and put in a puppet government has not gone as intended.
So, Putin's plan to make a lightning strike, kill Zelensky, and put in a puppet government has not gone as intended.
I read that Putin expected to take Ukraine in 1-3 days. It seems his plan has a flaw.
In completely unrelated news….
SHAMROCK SHAKES ☘️ ☘️ ☘️
my first of the season.
