Mal: Ready? Zoe: Always.

'Serenity'


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.


askye - Oct 14, 2021 4:58:52 pm PDT #9936 of 29425
Thrive to spite them

Happy Belated Birthday to everyone whose birthday I missed.

I'm packing tonight for our vacation. M was packing and he had like 3 shirts and maybe 4 pairs of underwear and I was like "you need more" and he replied "there's a washer and dryer down there this is all I need". In the meantime I'm counting how many days and what the weather may be like and how my moods will be and trying to jam all that into a carryon size suit case.


-t - Oct 14, 2021 5:01:11 pm PDT #9937 of 29425
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Man, why has it gotten so hard to identify yourself? What are trying to prevent with all that? That’s not a likely route for identity theft, surely. All this people needing to prove who they are all the time does rub me the wrong way. It’s something I remember learning in Civics class, I think, that we were not the kind of society that required everyone to carry papers. Sigh.

Anyway. Diastolic number is still high (the bottom number, whichever that actually is) so a phone appt with my GP and another follow up in November. Grocery pickup on the way home. And yet this week is not over yet.


msbelle - Oct 14, 2021 5:47:05 pm PDT #9938 of 29425
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I'm still the primary answerer of all covid and vaccine mandate questions for my work, but we did have 3 people start yesterday and today they took calls and emails. I am rapidly updating the FAQ as we learn what questions are coming in more and more.

We got 1 issue in the vaccine verification system worked out, but I got a view into the data side of the third party verification system and it was missing 10 out of about 40 employees in my department in their "view by department" area, soooooo not great data integrity. It also did not have my vaccine info even though I filled it out last Monday. I had meeting with the head of OIT today and he now know that I was the QC dept for a start up once and am happy to point all these faults out DAILY to him.

The "deadline" is tomorrow, but we all know that will not be met - still tptb will not send out an email updating dates that were sent out in the original email in mid-sept.

Still no waiver form. still no one stepping up saying send all the really angry policy-bashing people to me. still no one from Health dept saying - hey let us take on some of this since testing and waiver requirements should somewhat fall to us.

I am beat.


-t - Oct 14, 2021 6:04:26 pm PDT #9939 of 29425
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

That sounds exhausting, msbelle


Laura - Oct 14, 2021 6:32:45 pm PDT #9940 of 29425
Our wings are not tired.

I'm beat just thinking about it. Sorry that it is so frustrating.


Dana - Oct 14, 2021 7:19:19 pm PDT #9941 of 29425
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

This Tumblr post about TV Tropes is driving me nuts and I've talked myself out of replying to it three times, but I can at least share the agony with people who will understand.

[link]


Jessica - Oct 15, 2021 7:06:16 am PDT #9942 of 29425
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

This Tumblr post about TV Tropes is driving me nuts and I've talked myself out of replying to it three times, but I can at least share the agony with people who will understand.

"members of an extremely specific and insular subgroup (nerds)"

I- ok. So, the thing is.

ARGH.


Dana - Oct 15, 2021 7:19:51 am PDT #9943 of 29425
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

RIGHT? AAAAAA.


Jessica - Oct 15, 2021 7:25:52 am PDT #9944 of 29425
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

I am having exactly this reaction: [link]


dcp - Oct 15, 2021 7:26:32 am PDT #9945 of 29425
"I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam," -- Popeye

Yep.