Happy Birthday to quester, Emily, and B! Big day up in here.

I’m sorry about the fraught situation with your dad, Pix.

Lisah, I’m so sorry about your cat.

Just got back from the family Christmas festivities. There are three kids under five involved, so the chaos level is high. It’s fun for the short period I’m there, but it definitely wipes my introverted self right out. Now I’m home under the cat, waiting for a pizza.

Argh. Just got an email from a head of brand asking myteam to do something by next Wednesday that I, for one, do not see how we could possibly do it or why we would even be involved, but my boss has taken the rest of today and tomorrow off, and my other teammate is gone for the day and our VP is on vacation. I'm not going to answer. Hopefully someone else will check their email by tomorrow. If no one else says anything by EOD tomorrow I will just panic, I guess.

I, for one, do not see how we could possibly do it or why we would even be involved,

How about replying, "This needs to be cleared by [boss], and they won't be available until Monday" with a separate email punting the issue to [boss] saying, "Do you know why they think we should be involved? Do you know who the right team is, to do this work?

My last boss was very averse to any team trying to dump their work on us. Helping out was okay -- if they asked nicely, and cleared it in advance.

I may say something like that tomorrow (although "until Tuesday" because holiday) if no one else responds. The request is to my whole team and our VP and the sales team and some of Marketing and maybe someone in one of those groups is working tomorrow and knows who this would belong to.

Maine has kicked Trump off the ballot for sedition.

This is all going to be decided by Trump's Supreme Court, but I'm enjoying this part.

Matilda and I cleaned house today and ate leftover Bouef Bourguignon, which I recommend on a dreary December day.

I'm very sorry about your kitty, lisah. It is heartbreaking.

thanks for the birthday happies!

Pix, awful have the whole country between you and you dad and his care. lisah, sorry for your loss.

lisah, I'm so sorry. My condolences.

Pix, all of the ~mas to you, your dad, and Drew.

And thank you, everyone, for your words.

Having an office near Tel Aviv means I have coworkers there, as I've mentioned.

Do you know where are they located?

Holy shit, Ohio's republican governor just vetoed a bill that would have banned gender-affirming health care! I'm stunned. And so, so grateful. Wow!

That really was stunning. I thought I had misread the news alert. Nice to be surprised.