Happy birthday Jen!
Sometimes I miss having powers... Oh. Oh! I know what this is! This is peer pressure! Any second now you're gonna make me smoke tobacco and--and have drugs!
Anya ,'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.
Jessica - Oct 07, 2026 8:20:09 am PDT #14268 of 14274
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Trudy Booth - Oct 07, 2026 8:27:31 am PDT #14269 of 14274
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 14274
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 14274
$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 14274
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."
JenP - Oct 07, 2026 9:19:38 am PDT #14273 of 14274
$20M in taxes?? That’s so much money!!!
I know! Crazy.
Trudy, right? But, like... badly? (I have no idea how laundering money works, honestly.)
-t - Oct 07, 2026 9:23:02 am PDT #14274 of 14274
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That's wild, JenP!