Timelies all!

Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate. A bit later we will reheat the food we got from the gourmet market for our dinner. (Turkey, gravy, mashed sweet potato, stuffing, cranberry sauce, rolls and pumpkin pie for dessert.)

Happy Thanksgiving! I am very grateful for all my Buffistas.

I've got most of my food prepped, just have to get the bird in the oven then make the fancy M&C for Emmett.

We're driving up to meet him halfway at Novato (in Marin). I think I might swing by with a plate for EM too if she's at home.

I've decided we're going to watch Return of the Pink Panther tonight.

Happy Thanksgiving, or Happy Random Thursday! I'm grateful to be able to hang with you guys again.

I'm so glad your son's test came back negative, Cindy! Thinking good thoughts for all the other covid tests happening now.

Happy Thanksgiving, Buffistas. May you and yours be well, get negative tests, and have alllllll the pie. Can't really remember what Thanksgiving is about, but pie sounds awesome. Thankfully I'm eating right now or this thread would have made me very hungry.

My last client's payroll software was so old and poorly designed that it couldn't handle the covid drawdown. We had to go into the root and re-code it six times in the first 6 weeks of quarantine. It's in COBOL.

Hi-five had-to-deal-with-COBOL-programs-at-work-people. And running integration checks on processes that never meant to do the thing we were trying to make them do.

Thanksgiving miracle the puppy slept until 6am! And then we went back to bed until 7...at which point I successfully bribed him to sleep/be quiet another 45 minutes. Woot!!

Go puppy!

My dark chocolate bourbon pecan pie is out of the oven and looks good

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Stands in awe of Atropa's tactfully saying the "truth" writing skills.

Wow. Totally. How do you write "you keep asking me to handle things that are more complicated than they seem to be at first, so my original goals for 2020 are far from being completed and it's fine by me but it's no way of long term planning, and also, why the hell third of my colleagues don't wear masks so I've banished myself to work in an isolated room, praying none of them will get COVID"?

Happy Thanksgiving to all the Buffistas celebrating. Even if I don't get to Natter that often, I am very thankful for all the Buffistas near and far. This year I'm especially thankful for the new board and everyone who made it happen.

No cooking for me today. Hoping to get a full spread at Tommy's Joynt, an SF institution in my neighborhood that is best described as a comfort food meateteria. They always do takeaway at Thanksgiving but, since we are usually at Pix and ND's place [insert sad face here], I have no idea what the lines are like.

We have just finished Pangs. Still quote delightful.

I am about to watch Pangs and eat. I did make Petunia a plate, but she is reluctant to come to the table and eat with me! Cats!?!

I am so sorry that Emmett can’t Thanksgiving with you guys, but you are being so smart!

Happy Ritual Sacrifice With Pie Day! And may some god/goddess bless us... everyone.

Wow. Totally. How do you write "you keep asking me to handle things that are more complicated than they seem to be at first, so my original goals for 2020 are far from being completed and it's fine by me but it's no way of long term planning, and also, why the hell third of my colleagues don't wear masks so I've banished myself to work in an isolated room, praying none of them will get COVID"?

"I took on additional challenging projects this year, and the resulting complexities had impacts on my originally stated 2020 goals. In addition, my original 2020 goals were hindered by a lack of uniform application of safety precautions related to COVID-19."

Or something like that.

Why yes, I am the woman who reworded "I managed to hit my goals and did not set any coworkers on fire" into "I accomplished my goals and encouraged cross-team collaboration through helping fostering communication clarity with coworkers with differing work and communication styles."

(My manager at the time read that and said "Good job on not setting anyone on fire." )

3 plates being prepared: for Emmett, Emmett's mom, and my dad's girlfriend (who already has a turkey but thought all the sides sounded delicious and requested a small plate of sides).

BIL has set up a gigantic Zoom thang so family in CA, OR, NV, IN and CT can all connect, so there will be much Zooming and phoning. Except my maternal aunt, who will be having an in-person Thanksgiving dinner with her big brother and SIL--none of them will be participating in our Zoom because we will not avoid political discussion if it comes up (and it will), all of it moderate to solid left, and we couldn't promise there wouldn't be any ranting or gloating. So, they're absenting themselves.

BIL's dumbass oldest nephew will be Zooming in from his room of isolation, where he remains after testing positive after attending an MF'ing three hundred person wedding. Because Indiana.