I'm sensing a laundry theme today.
Foggy morning in SF.
I'm venturing out the door wearing my Ouija Board cardigan and my tarot design scarf, so I'm full of magic and mysteries.
Joyce: You don't think it's too obvious? I think I look like I have a cat on my head. Buffy: But a very well groomed cat. Joyce: Well that's a comfort.
'Bring On The Night'
Natter 78: I might need to watch some Buffy for inspiration
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 25, 2026 9:49:43 am PST #11720 of 12321
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Jessica - Feb 25, 2026 9:53:15 am PST #11721 of 12321
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
School finally reopened today! (On a 3-hour delay which means each class is about 15 minutes long, but at least A is OUT OF THE HOUSE.)
-t - Feb 25, 2026 10:56:07 am PST #11722 of 12321
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I thought it was my router or whatever but I finally got enough cell service to open the Xfinity app and got a notification that’s there’s network damage in the area, whatever that means. Well, relieved some of my guilt over not being able to do any work.
The cell service is Verizon and we’ve just always had pretty poor coverage here for whatever reason
Anyway, I had already downloaded the library book I’ve been listening to and occasionally can get through on Slack enough to cancel everything I planned to do today, so all good. Picking up A’s snow days, sort of
-t - Feb 25, 2026 12:03:16 pm PST #11723 of 12321
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Got myself all packed up to go into the office tomorrow, called into a Zoom on my phone planning on bailing on the rest of the day, and the outage is fixed. Argh.
DavidS - Feb 25, 2026 2:30:09 pm PST #11724 of 12321
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I deviated from my diet and had a whopping hot roast beef and melted munster sandwich.
That'll be both lunch and dinner but it was goooood.
Atropa - Feb 25, 2026 8:19:17 pm PST #11725 of 12321
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I made one of my irregular trips to the office today because some folks on the team were in town; how does anyone get work done in an office anymore? I was there for 3 hours and couldn’t get anything done because people! Kept interrupting me! Sure, yay seeing some coworkers, but that was the only good part.
IO(work)N: the 2025 bonus will be on Friday’s paycheck, whoo!
DavidS - Feb 25, 2026 9:04:09 pm PST #11726 of 12321
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I was there for 3 hours and couldn’t get anything done because people! Kept interrupting me! Sure, yay seeing some coworkers, but that was the only good part.
To be fair, seeing you in person is a significant work perk.
IO(work)N: the 2025 bonus will be on Friday’s paycheck, whoo!
Yay!
Jessica - Feb 26, 2026 6:23:03 am PST #11727 of 12321
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I had a full-body coughing fit yesterday that I'm still sore from this morning - blargh. OTOH I feel much better today so I guess it worked to expel whatever demon virus I was possessed by.
I've found, annoyingly, that going into the office part-time makes it near impossible for me to be productive on WFH days. When I was at home full time I was able to engage Work Brain at my desk, but now that I've adjusted to being in-office most days it's much harder to convince myself that home office is a Work Brain Place.
lisah - Feb 26, 2026 7:35:47 am PST #11728 of 12321
Punishingly Intricate
I really find it hard to imagine going into an office again.
Dana - Feb 26, 2026 7:44:22 am PST #11729 of 12321
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Oh, god, me too. Even before covid, and when I was living in the same place as my office, I only had to go in one morning a week. How did I ever cope with being stuck there every day?