Happy birthday, Jen!
Yeah, same on routines. I absolutely crave routine until I get one semi-established and then I do everything I can to break out of it. Not at all sensible.
I battle evil. But I don't really win. The bad keeps coming back and getting stronger. Like that kid in the story, the boy that stuck his finger in the duck.
Buffy ,'Showtime'
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.
-t - Oct 07, 2026 8:12:04 am PDT #14266 of 14272
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Jessica - Oct 07, 2026 8:19:17 am PDT #14267 of 14272
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
It's "write your annual review" time, and my boss told me I should make sure I include as many examples of things I did tied to the level expectations for my role.
UGH, I hate shit like this. (It is one of the only tasks I find AI truly useful for, since (a) I don't want to do it and (b) I don't remember this entire year.)
Jessica - Oct 07, 2026 8:20:09 am PDT #14268 of 14272
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Happy birthday Jen!
Trudy Booth - Oct 07, 2026 8:27:31 am PDT #14269 of 14272
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
We changed our self evaluation program again. In the training for the new system they told us they wanted us to practice using AI with our evaluations.
So I set it to "corporate language," typed things in, fixed the letter, submitted it.
This was good because I'm crap at corporate language.
Forget plastics, the future is in self-evaluation - we change it annually.
JenP - Oct 07, 2026 8:36:12 am PDT #14270 of 14272
Thank you, peeps!
Holy shit -- DH and I were just talking, and I said I wanted to continue the tradition of going to my favorite local diner for b-day dinner on my actual b-day (there are a couple of capital B birthday dinners this weekend, so... chill is the goal for today) -- not an hour later I see an article saying that the diner and the couple of bakeries and such they own are being sued by the feds for $20M in back taxes. How... what... how do you DO that? This is a dude my DH will have the occasional drink with at a local dive. Like, I know him. We chat. Holy shit. That is ROUGH.
meara - Oct 07, 2026 8:59:33 am PDT #14271 of 14272
$20M in taxes?? That’s so much money!!!
Somehow I am STILL slightly sore from Saturdays vaccines, though no longer sore enough that I’m feeling it and annoyed constantly. Hoping it means I am going to be Very Protected.
I also used AI on my annual eval but not sure how to best make it make me sound amazing when I barely remember the things I did.
Trudy Booth - Oct 07, 2026 9:07:44 am PDT #14272 of 14272
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Maybe its just the Jersey in me, but my head went "Oh, they're mobbed up and were laundering money."