Oh, Cass, I'm so sorry. Your poor uncle.

Hec, please to note that I am much better at making the healthy plans than actually carrying them out! Orders of magnitude. But sometimes I do follow through.

Umbrella-warming drinks and nibbles on the patio sounds delightful, JenP!

It's amazing what we learn years after the fact, and how that affects our memories of childhood events. I mean, you know horrific stuff happens in the world, generally. But putting it together into "horrific thing happened to a family member and that impacted my childhood in very specific ways" is a whole different situation.

I mean, you know horrific stuff happens in the world, generally. But putting it together into "horrific thing happened to a family member and that impacted my childhood in very specific ways" is a whole different situation.

Exactly.

You know, I was just thinking that this has been a really long week and realized that I had forgotten Monday was a holiday. That seems like way longer ago.

Well. My supervisor and one of my teammates will be working from home next week so there will just be two us in the (new) office. The week after that, the one who is in the office with me this coming week will be out sick for our in office days, and then she's quitting. So it'll be just me on Tuesday, but my supervisor will be in on Thursday so then I'll have company for a couple of weeks but then the two of us will both be on vacation and C will be in the office by herself for a few days. I sure hope they decide what our jobs are supposed to be soon. We are still in "just keep doing what you've been doing while we iron out the details" mode since April.

Aw, national treasure Alexandra Petri's daughter has my birthday. I am unreasonably pleased about this.

t that seems….annoying? After all that moving fuss?

Meanwhile it’s Friday afternoon and I had to schedule an emergency meeting to say “no this is the hill I will die on” to try to stop people from doing a work thing I disagree with and I thought I might have to do this at some point soon but not Friday afternoon!!

THat doesn't sound pleasant at all, meara! Hope the meeting goes well.

Yeah, annoying is a good word. I sometimes wonder if they are deliberately trying to get people to quit to reduce payroll without a big layoff.

At least I don't have Elon Musk talking about buying my company.

Ugh. It’s all a nasty mess and they’re like “well we basically agree with you but we can’t make this person mad by saying no so we have to let him do it even though he’s already ducking up what we’ve approved him for before, and maybe if he fucks up THIS time we can say no NEXT time?” Ugh.