Mal ,'War Stories'
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.
Timelies all!
First off, hell no, I am not resigning or retiring or any of that bullshit. It's also damned annoying that we can't order things for the lab without explaining why it's an emergency.
The trip to visit my folks was fine, if not as warm as I'd like.(Still warmer than up here.) Mostly went out to eat, and sat around while my folks watch various cop type shows(NCIS and Walker, Texas Ranger-no, not the recent one-mostly)
Matilda and I got up, got out, and got coffee. Then I walked her to her orientation and she was so antsy, I left her alone at the meeting place and asked her to text me when the staff and other participants had collected her.
Got updated that they found her and they went off and did tie-dye.
I'm looking up lunch options for myself.
Oh, we did the public hot tub last night! Very warm and relaxing and I had it to myself.
We are moving out of this fucking house in three weeks and the roof just decided to start leaking.
Plane crash at Washington National Airport DCA. Flight from KS hit a black hawk helicopter apparently. Flight was a commuter size plane, not a full size jet.
Jesus, msbelle. So awful.
I got all hupped up on a post-work Manhattan and called both my senators to rant about the RTO order and how it will affect (my agency's) ability to do our national security-related jobs. Dunno if it will make a difference, but my staff are freaking out: 4 of them are full remote, and 2 of those are nowhere near an office they can reasonably report to.
Our higher command is providing NO FUCKING GUIDANCE on any of this: yesterday the HR people forwarded a PDF that included links to the stupid "Fork" message at OPM and nothing else. Thanks for nothing, assholes. (But then again our HR sucks and always has.)
My boss is trying his best, but it's clear he's very frustrated by the silence from up the chain of command. They're all terrified to do anything that might be seen as opposing TFG's requirements, even though what we do is shit that even the GOP wants us to do. If half of us civilians leave, the agency will really fucking struggle.
So now I'm watching Star Wars: Rebels and drinking some cheap Pinot Noir, and trying to enjoy having a WFH day when in 2 weeks I will have to go back to the office full-time.
Oh, and flea, tell DH to read the article at Just Security about the Fork offer. That whole situation is bullshit and I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole.
I’m going to be shocked if there are any survivors. 64 on plane 3 on helicopter.
Survivors would be miraculous.
Flight from KS hit a black hawk helicopter apparently.
Every single description says that but there's video that, perhaps due to the line of sight, appears to show the helicopter getting close, closer and boom to the plane all over BlueSky.
I literally trust nothing in the media. Newsweek described it as "a small 'aircraft incident.'"
Yeah I saw that video too. The one I saw was reported to be from a live cam. I’m not seeing it being shared on the AP or CNN live updates I’m watching though, so I remain skeptical.
The one I saw was from Earthcam's Kennedy Center camera.