I do not anticipate baby pigs or otters. TBD on owls

Candlelight Shakespeare (with good company) is pretty dang sweet! I wish you owls, of course. London always has ravens on offer, I understand, so there’s that.

That sounds fantastic, Brenda! Enjoy the eff out of it.

What are everyone else’s plans for the weekend?

Taxes. Want to get them in at least somewhat early since I think the IRS will be understaffed and in chaos.

That sounds pretty cool even without otters or pigs, Brenda!

Brenda, enjoy the heck out of the Globe theater. It is absolutely magical seeing a play there.

I’m at my volunteer library bookstore job. It’s lousy out. So, I have no customers. I’m pretty much just reading and shopping for books. And ordering groceries.

Wow Brenda, that sounds awesome.

As does David's visit with pigs and otters. Around here we only have cat cafes, and I'm allergic.

It's raining here and chilly, but the dog is on my feet. I'm trying not to stress about work, but. {{hugs}} to all the other fed-types. It's so hard not to know what's going to happen.

My management is trying to get the telework folks settled before our internal deadline of Feb 12, then try to solve the issue of the full remote workers. It's particularly hard on folks who do a longass telework thing (live outside the locality but work 2 days/pay period at the office to retain locality pay). We have a couple people like that, and they are worried about being forced to return to the office or (if they can go remote somehow) taking a big pay cut.

I have 4 full remote employees, 1 of whom is NOWHERE near any agency facilities. The other 3 we may be able to find homes for, so they can keep doing their (useful! important!) jobs.

I'm grateful my boss is being a complete mensch, but he is hobbled by the need to comply with the directives we are getting. And frustrated that we aren't getting ANY GUIDANCE on how to comply. The silence from HQ has been fucking deafening.

We are on the phone with the world's weirdest insurance representative. Two weeks to the move, and everything is going to be insane.

I'm so sorry for everyone affected by the governmental job weirdness. Husband still keeps in touch with a former coworker from a national DOE lab, and things sound grim.

So while time is short, I am hoping to make the most of it.

Oh! It certainly sounds like you are doing so. Well done.

I went to the beach, and went swimming and stuff, since I have visitors.

Sounds pleasant, Laura.

Good luck, Dana.

Had a great lunch visit with newish friend, and we made plans to get together before we left so we wouldn't wait eight months again, ha! Plus, we met in a playwriting class and then ended up in the same acting class and totally hit it off, so we are going to be writing accountability partners.