“there’s no point in voting” nihilism

There have been several occasions where I've had to use "If you don't vote, you don't get to complain about the results."

Timelies all!

I'm sorry for your loss, Sophia. She sounds like a wonderful mentor.

We had another overnight with Mr. S which went ok. No meltdowns, but a fair bit of mood swings. We went to the zoo yesterday(and saw one of the two new pandas) but spent more time in the gift shop than seeing animals. It took him a little longer to settle down for bed than the last time, but still managed to be up around 5. He was kinda hyper this morning. He spent a lot of time playing shooty games on his Switch, which didn't help things.

Our weekly town hall thing got Zoom-bombed with lame pornographic images.(if they were literally lame, I might be fascinated, but...)

Random: Ha! I just typed "Thirded!" In a chat as if everyone would know what I meant. I mean, maybe... but it is funny to assume the rest of the word gets Phoenix-isms. Heh.

I've definitely done this.

I’m gonna just say go spite, choose spite

Thirded.

This whole crypto strategic reserve and the shell company thing have me thinking of that time on The Wire when Stringer Bell thought he was going legit but Clay Davis revealed to us that all the advice and guidance he had been giving was designed to harvest his wealth for the already established. Not that what's happening is anyone going legit, rather the opposite, but still getting taken by those who have been in the game longer

Oh, totally. Really want Josh Weil to win that house seat in FL--kind of tired of him blowing up my inbox. (Everyone could come up with a plan other than "Maybe that crippled chick out in the desert has a nickel she's not using!" That would make me feel a lot better. Especially, since who knows when they're coming after my nickels.) Anyone else ever have, well, let's call it a work project, where they wonder just how much of themselves to put into it? Because there is...kind of a universe where I kill it(and I'm not being immodest--that's just, you know, how unsexy this work is.) But I threw myself *hard* into school and college, and obviously that was the path to fame, fortune and popularity because I've got time to type this at 11 am. My life is obviously on whatever white ex-Lutherans say instead of "fleek", right? Not.) My supervisor loves the part of me that digs in and won't let go, but, like, so what? We're cool, but he can't even pay me. But I feel weird playing the "Work won't love me back," card too much because a. constitutional crisis and 2. who's left? Netflix?(well,Ok, I've made a bit more time for art, lately, but there's not *a lot* waiting at home)

Yeah, don't burn yourself out. You, personally, matter, too.

On a shallower note - we are supposed to be switching to (or adding on, IDK) Slack at work because that will make us more efficient apparently. I just got an invite for our first training and it is at noon. Annoying. Even more irritating, I already have a noon meeting that day

I have been using Slack for a lot of years and really like it.

ION I'm in Boise this week designing a show.

I'm also a Slack fan. Actually use both Slack and Google Chat at work and Slack is so much better.

Google chat really should be better. It feels like Google just isn't trying to make it really good. So much of GSuite is really good.