Damn it! You know what? I'm sick of this crap. I'm sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets the funny syphilis. As of this moment, it's over. I'm finished being everybody's butt monkey!

Xander ,'Lessons'


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.


msbelle - Nov 09, 2022 11:52:50 am PST #18496 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Work rant

This is becoming more and more common, like every other day. People asking me to do things that I have NO IDEA what they are talking about or sending emails that say, “please assist” again with items I HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF.

Like assist how, with what specifically, or “that is not anything I have anything to do with”.

It’s as if I’m in a dream and people are asking for me to work on the bathtub balloon contest like I should know what that is or that it makes any sense. I can no longer fix my face I just looked at my boss like she was an alien as she directly pointed at me and told me to start on something.


EpicTangent - Nov 09, 2022 12:01:21 pm PST #18497 of 30000
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

Congrats on being home, Daniel. I thought I had a record with my 10-day hospital stay; sorry you broke it. That had to suck. Here's to quick healing with limited/no pain from home!


Jessica - Nov 09, 2022 12:09:04 pm PST #18498 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

The new NY district map turned my congressional district red and put Mondaire Jones out of a job (not last night's news, he lost the primary) and I am PISSED. I haven't been represented by a Republican in over 20 years and I am not looking forward to it now.


Jesse - Nov 09, 2022 12:24:12 pm PST #18499 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Okay y'all, I have an etiquette question. I need to write thank-you notes to two parent volunteers who ran a fundraiser for my library. I know generally what I want to say, but do I need to make the messages noticeably different from each other? I don't really know either of them and so it's hard to personalize the notes in any meaningful way. I just don't want them to feel like it's a boilerplate message.

They don't have to be different from each other! If you're sending them on paper, they will never know. If you are sending them via email, just send one note to both.


Kate P. - Nov 09, 2022 12:33:04 pm PST #18500 of 30000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Thanks, Jesse! I knew you'd come through for me. They're hand-written notecards. I will send them both the same sincerely meant message with a clear conscience.


-t - Nov 09, 2022 12:45:32 pm PST #18501 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

The same sincerely meant message sounds right.

Ran out to pick up lunch at a food truck near Big Lots and Big Lots had Peeps so the Chili Cookoff is saved!

Ugh, Jess, I'm sorry!

You, too, msbelle, that sounds terrible


askye - Nov 09, 2022 1:09:10 pm PST #18502 of 30000
Thrive to spite them

I finally got a check from worker's comp for the partial disability payments they have owed me since Jun! I hadn't heard from my lawyer so I was surprised. I hadn't heard from her if the issue of me being possibly underpaid while I was on full disability has been resolved so I sent an email saying- I got a check! What do I need to do to keep getting checks from them regularly and also what about the other issues.

Holy crap this is a relief to get this check.


Cass - Nov 09, 2022 1:18:32 pm PST #18503 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Turnout in SF is currently around 31%, but they're nowhere near done tallying up all the mail-in ballots, so it should go up quite a bit. It damn well better, because that's embarrassing.

18.4% I am just horrified. Don't people care?


Cass - Nov 09, 2022 1:20:09 pm PST #18504 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Holy crap this is a relief to get this check.

That's wonderful news, askye! Nothing like having brain issues and then they screw with your head for months at a time. Glad you got what I hope is the first of many checks without drama.

Welcome home, Daniel!


askye - Nov 09, 2022 1:21:23 pm PST #18505 of 30000
Thrive to spite them

Also I didn't go to the dmv today ,I'm putting that off until tomorrow after work again.. BUT I did 2 things iv'e been putting off for awhile so minor victories--yya