But? There's always a but. When this is over, can we have a big 'but' moratorium?

Fred ,'Smile Time'


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.


DavidS - Feb 02, 2024 3:42:07 pm PST #28436 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

means I have to paper-file my tax returns

Like some Fuller Brush Man from 1951!

Unacceptable.

In better news after beating my head against the bureaucracy for five months with numerous actual mailings with actual death certificates, Prudential has finally paid out the remainder of JZ's life insurance.

Which is very timely as earlier this week I sent off the biggest frickin' check I'll probably ever write in this life time to the IRS and this offsets it somewhat.

Now if I can just get JZ's pension to start making payments.


aurelia - Feb 02, 2024 6:00:42 pm PST #28437 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Shockingly, what AI produced was even more boring than what I just did, AND sounded less confident!

AI has been reading its own reviews.


Calli - Feb 03, 2024 11:06:47 am PST #28438 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Self-eval~ma to all who need it. Lung~ma likewise.

My manager and I have set up notes pages in Monday dot com for our one-on-ones (it’s really useful—we get into entire conversations there throughout the week, and sometimes we end up not even needing to meet), and I can just skim them and nab the highlights for my self-eval. “Oh, yeah, I did resolve that gnarly issue with our ticketing system—guess I repressed that for a reason. But I totally want props for that in my PEP.”


Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 03, 2024 3:31:02 pm PST #28439 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

We don't really do year-end self-evaluations anymore, just individual project postmortems to figure out what went well and what we could do better next time. I'm a lot more comfortable with the subject of the eval being the project rather than me personally, even if I'm talking about things I did on it.


erikaj - Feb 03, 2024 4:08:54 pm PST #28440 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!

this reminds me why trying to do a bio may be some of what I hate about trying to get published.


Karl - Feb 04, 2024 12:31:09 am PST #28441 of 30000
I adore all you motherfuckers so much -- PMM.

Dammit. Hinton Battle has left us; Wikipedia says he died at Cedars Sinai in L.A., but gives no cause of death.

He was probably my favourite part of the musical episode.


Laura - Feb 04, 2024 6:44:14 am PST #28442 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

He was so talented. A very memorable performance for sure.

Which reminds me that the Grammys are on tonight! One of my favorties. I have to say I am really looking forward to the Tracy Chapman and Luke Combs duet.


sj - Feb 04, 2024 8:49:55 am PST #28443 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Damn. He was only 67.


Sheryl - Feb 04, 2024 9:01:46 am PST #28444 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

So yesterday Mr. S insisted on going to the supermarket with me. Which meant all three of us went, and we ended up with a few more things than were on the list.(including Axe deodorant. He is 8.) I hope this doesn’t become a pattern.


erikaj - Feb 04, 2024 9:33:01 am PST #28445 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!

Is it wrong that I wondered if Battle caught fire? Probably a little, and yet?