Tara: 'Your One-Stop Spot to Shop for Lots of New-Age and Occult Items.' Catchy. Giles: Think so? Tara: Uh huh. In a... hard to say sorta way.

'Sleeper'


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.


Atropa - Jan 13, 2021 6:52:00 pm PST #2377 of 29428
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

msbelle, please tell the Haunted Mansion that I miss it and want to come home.

Since last Thursday I have: stared unbelievingly at Slack, created a documentation planning process, had it reviewed by my boss, my feature release manager, and their boss, ran a meeting presenting and explaining it to my feature project managers, created a documentation request tracking spreadsheet for the same PMs, had a 1:1 with the junior writer I’m mentoring, and did not kill a project manager with my brain when they said “No, we don’t have any design docs about these workflows, they just evolved organically during the UX design meetings.”

I would like a large drink, a slice of cake the size of my head, and no meetings for the rest of the week.


Cashmere - Jan 13, 2021 7:25:41 pm PST #2378 of 29428
Now tagless for your comfort.

Has any buffista or buffista-adjacent heard of Averna?

My kid is in love with it so I’m doing a deep dive. Seems like a super talented and creative media savvy group of young things.

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Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 13, 2021 8:05:37 pm PST #2379 of 29428
"You should never say bad things about the dead, only good… Joan Crawford is dead. Good.” —Bette Davis

I'm feeling very upbeat tonight. Possibly because I spent the last half hour listening to songs from Galavant.


Fiona - Jan 13, 2021 11:39:27 pm PST #2380 of 29428

Laura! Grandparenthood - congratulations! More details please.

Stay safe everyone.


Calli - Jan 14, 2021 6:55:10 am PST #2381 of 29428
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Congrats on the grandchild, Laura!

Averna looks like something I would have been all over as a teenager. I haven't heard of it before, so I don't know if it's a front for something untoward, though.


Amy - Jan 14, 2021 7:19:01 am PST #2382 of 29428
Because books.

::waves at Laura::

flea, happy to be soldiering along with you. This is my last one, and she will, by god, graduate, or I will die trying.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 14, 2021 7:35:11 am PST #2383 of 29428
"You should never say bad things about the dead, only good… Joan Crawford is dead. Good.” —Bette Davis

Hi Laura!

Yesterday I somehow wrangled an appointment for my annual physical in barely a month, which is about five to six weeks earlier than I expected. Downside, I really need to hit the treadmill hard between now and mid February to see if I can get my weight down.


JenP - Jan 14, 2021 8:13:08 am PST #2384 of 29428

Hi, Laura!

Um... I don't think I have anything else. Yup. Nope. That's it.


Laura - Jan 14, 2021 8:37:42 am PST #2385 of 29428
Our wings are not tired.

Laura! Grandparenthood - congratulations! More details please.

Oh, let me tell you about my grandchild! Jonathan Garcia Holt was born 5 weeks early and was a wee 5 lbs 11 oz, 21" long. Considering his parents are both over 6', that was tiny. She pushed 3 times! Those of us who delivered the huge babies were most jealous. Originally they had planned to give her a c-section because of her EDS, but because of his size they were able to do a natural birth without her dislocating hips or anything. They had a time of it keeping him awake to eat the first couple weeks. They had a little bootie that monitored his heartrate and oxygen and they took 3 hour shifts monitoring him. Bless Tesla and their generous maternity and paternity leave policies, and excellent health insurance. Although he wasn't strong enough at first to nurse she pumped more than he could consume. Now he wants to wake up Mom & Dad to eat all the time.

I've still only seen him twice as they are more privately negotiating the parenting thing and aren't allowing anyone else to hold him until his gestational birth due date, which is in a couple days!! So hopefully we will be able to hold him this weekend. I did touch his toes already, because baby toes!

I may spam the Buffista FB page with some pictures. He met his 4 month old cousin last week in the park and I have pictures of them both.


Steph L. - Jan 14, 2021 8:51:44 am PST #2386 of 29428
Apparently if you're enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.

Jonathan Garcia Holt was born 5 weeks early and was a wee 5 lbs 11 oz, 21" long. Considering his parents are both over 6', that was tiny.

Wee tiny babe! My brother was 5 lbs 15 oz, and grew into a beast of 6'2", so it's nice to know that they can catch up.