Well, it was very lovely to do a Zoom call with Amyth tonight.
I enjoyed seeing your lovely faces and hearing your voices.
No studying? Damn! Next thing they'll tell me is I'll have to eat jelly doughnuts or sleep with a supermodel to get things done around here. I ask you, how much can one man give?
Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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 - Dec 09, 2020 9:10:57 pm PST #860 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
NoiseDesign - Dec 09, 2020 10:10:23 pm PST #861 of 30000
Our wings are not tired
Yes. What David just said!
Shir - Dec 09, 2020 10:53:16 pm PST #862 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Went to see my parents yesterday to help with computer issues (could not fix them myself, unfortunately). My dad, sadly, is 100% back into the paranoid personality disorder (could hardly had two sentences in a row without hearing about a conspiracy or a person who let him down in his past). It is difficult and heartbreaking to see someone you love retreating back into this shit, especially when it's so hard to get them into therapy in these cases.
DavidS - Dec 09, 2020 10:57:18 pm PST #863 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
My dad, sadly, is 100% back into the paranoid personality disorder (could hardly had two sentences in a row without hearing about a conspiracy or a person who let him down in his past). It is difficult and heartbreaking to see someone you love retreating back into this shit, especially when it's so hard to get them into therapy in these cases.
I'm sorry, Shir. That's so hard.
Calli - Dec 10, 2020 5:30:45 am PST #864 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I’m sorry, Shir.
Yes, David, it was. Since I never made any of the F2Fs, these zoom sessions have sort of felt like a chance to meet people. And they weren’t kidding about having to schedule things. Amyth has a whiteboard on her door to keep all the planned visits straight. When I was over on Tuesday, the next open slot to drop by wasn’t until Friday.
Jesse - Dec 10, 2020 6:10:12 am PST #865 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh no, Shir, I'm sorry to hear that! It must be awful for both of you.
Glamcookie - Dec 10, 2020 6:40:17 am PST #866 of 30000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
I'm sorry, Shir.
Agile is one of those things that sounds great but in practice rarely works the way it's supposed to. As someone said, especially with regard to tech writing. Dev gets through the end of the sprint to be done, which means writers don't see the final feature until the end of the sprint. But docs are supposed to be done by the end of the sprint. Had this convo 1.5 million times at my previous workplace. Ugh.
For Christmas, we are doing a full turkey dinner as we didn't for T'giving and my kids were very upset about it. Mind you, they NEVER eat the turkey dinner, so I have no idea. I guess just that everything is different because of COVID - we had one child leave the table in tears (even though we made one of his faves - lasagna) and the other ask where the turkey was. They also wanted to eat in the dining room rather than kitchen, which we did and was fine but again - unexpected. Trying not to make the same mistakes for Christmas.
sj - Dec 10, 2020 6:47:19 am PST #867 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Glam, kids love to confuse their parents, especially wrt food. ltc will love something one day and call it "ewwwwy" the next.
Glamcookie - Dec 10, 2020 7:06:21 am PST #868 of 30000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
sj, I predict that my youngest will have one bite of everything and then ask for a hot dog. My oldest may have a bite of mashed potatoes, dressing, and turkey, and the ask for a cheese quesadilla. Have kids, they said...
JenP - Dec 10, 2020 7:06:36 am PST #869 of 30000
I'm sorry, Shir.
Glam, that reminds me of two things: I think my sister once suggested something slightly different to her boys (at the time; they are men now) abut the timing for Christmas - I don't know, maybe open some presents and home, then go to Oma's? - apparently the older one looked at her as if she were speaking another language and said, very definitively, "Chrismas. Is. At. Oma's." This is the same one who, in his mid-twenties, looked askance at some fancied up version of green bean casserole and mumbled, "Thanksgiving is not the time to experiment." Surprised he didn't break out into "Tradition!" from Fiddler.