Thank you!
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.
Jesse - Mar 22, 2023 1:19:01 pm PDT #21278 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Toddson - Mar 22, 2023 1:53:32 pm PDT #21279 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Popping in to wish you some enchanted evenings.
Sheryl - Mar 22, 2023 4:18:58 pm PDT #21280 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Turns out they didn't need to do a biopsy on my dad after all. It was some sort of narrowing of the tube that caused the blood in the urine, and they put a catheter in. It'll come out in a couple days and we'll see how things go from there.
Vortex - Mar 22, 2023 5:53:40 pm PDT #21281 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I was just talking with my friend K, who was going to go to Bali, but th person that she was going with was getting flaky. And wanted to include their high mainentance SO at the last minute. So she bailed. I was intrigued, but I don't know her well enough to travel to Bali.
Also OMWF starts in 7 minutes on CometTV and I am unreasonably anticipatory.
Susan W. - Mar 22, 2023 6:08:44 pm PDT #21282 of 30000
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Wow to Bali!
We don't get to have a summer vacation as such because UW is doing a complete overhaul of its financial systems and switching over to Workday in July. Which means that those of us in UW Finance, especially those who are any kind of power users or trainers, basically can't take more than a couple days off at a time May-September.
I am Not Happy about any part of this situation and can rant at length on how I feel about Workday, but the plus side is we're planning a fall or winter vacation instead. At this point the front runner is Portugal over Thanksgiving week.
-t - Mar 22, 2023 8:52:00 pm PDT #21283 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ooh, Portugal! Cool!
I am still deciding when I can take my next big vacation but 30 Days of Trains seems very doable. I should really make my mind up about timing so I can start making plans for visiting people. Mom suggested Sept/Oct but the annular eclipse is in October and that’s a fixed date if ever there was one.
meara - Mar 22, 2023 9:32:19 pm PDT #21284 of 30000
30 days of trains sounds intriguing!! As does the eclipse.
Y’all, I probably need to write in to Ask A Manager, but any tips on how to word accomplishments as a project-manager sort of person to both (a) show I did something but (b) not make it sound like I did all the work—sometimes I directed others to do it and other times worked as part of a team. Some things I can claim—like oh, I looked at this issue or these results and realized we needed to do XYZ and then had the team do it, sure. But a lot of other times when trying to think of examples of things I’ve done I end up saying we we we we.
Jesse - Mar 23, 2023 5:51:59 am PDT #21285 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
sometimes I directed others to do it and other times worked as part of a team
Can you distinguish between those in each case? So, "led project A, key member of project team B, etc."?
Laura - Mar 23, 2023 6:15:33 am PDT #21286 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Hi Todd!! Good to see you 'round these parts.
Turns out they didn't need to do a biopsy on my dad after all.
Good news.
Also OMWF starts in 7 minutes on CometTV and I am unreasonably anticipatory.
It has been quite a while. I hope it was enjoyed.
All this vacation talk makes me long for a trip. Sigh.
Calli - Mar 23, 2023 8:02:47 am PDT #21287 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Turns out they didn't need to do a biopsy on my dad after all.
Yay!
Due to the scheduling of major projects, my usual Labor Day vacation plans won't happen this year. My manager is good about saying we should definitely take vacation at other times—it's just an issue with the school calendar. I'm a little bummed, but it's a one time thing. Or at least, a one time per decade thing.