I came back from lunch to an email about “strategic realignment and cost-reduction”, with more details to come.
Ick. I don't like those words at all.
I think what my daughter's trying to say is: nyah nyah nyah nyah.
Joyce ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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.
Laura - Mar 13, 2025 1:00:40 pm PDT #6122 of 6171
Our wings are not tired.
askye - Mar 13, 2025 1:17:48 pm PDT #6123 of 6171
Thrive to spite them
Sophia ...M's family (including M) have all kinds of mental health/ neurodiverisity type stuff. But not really diagnosed. Except his mom does have mental health issues.
Good news! His Mom is home!. She doesn't need an oxygen tank. So we will see how that goes.
JenP - Mar 13, 2025 1:23:36 pm PDT #6124 of 6171
Good news, askye.
Yah, I miss smoking, gotta be honest. Not in a "want to start again way," but if there were no reasons not to... insert wistful sigh.
Workshop done. Email not. But I promised DH a gym visit. Email after that.
-t - Mar 13, 2025 2:07:19 pm PDT #6125 of 6171
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I did mean to say, vibing for you, Calli. Not a notification you ever want
Hil R. - Mar 13, 2025 2:21:24 pm PDT #6126 of 6171
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Good news, askye!
I'm trying to renew my passport. I fit all the criteria for renewing online. I got one of my coworkers to take some photos of me this morning so that I could upload one, but it got rejected because I forgot to take off my glasses. (I wore my glasses in my old passport photo. This must be a new-ish rule.) Guess I can go to CVS or the library or somewhere and have them take a photo of me. Sometimes, living alone is annoying -- this would take two seconds if there were another person here.
Jessica - Mar 13, 2025 2:35:41 pm PDT #6127 of 6171
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Passport photo rules are no glasses and no smiling (can't show teeth). My most recent photo looks like a mug shot.
Sheryl - Mar 13, 2025 3:35:09 pm PDT #6128 of 6171
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Health~ma to all who need/want it.
Which includes Mr. S, who has an ear infection. And me, to a degree, as I have a cold that is mostly annoying.
I have learned that the new person in our lab is a) only in our lab 3 days a week(the other days she doing stuff for her old lab and b) temporary. How long she'll be here, I don't know. I just know we're all exhausted from all the work we have to do. (Possibly unpaid if the CR isn't passed)
Theodosia - Mar 13, 2025 4:51:24 pm PDT #6129 of 6171
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I FOUND MY BIRTH CERTIFICATE! Took many boxes apart, etc., but it was actually in an envelope sticking out of the hallway bookcase. Sheesh.
DavidS - Mar 13, 2025 5:35:48 pm PDT #6130 of 6171
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I FOUND MY BIRTH CERTIFICATE!
Ta da! I never did find mine which add a whole 'nother layer of stress to getting my passport to go to Japan.
Everybody raise your hand if you know exactly where your passport or birth certificate is!
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 13, 2025 5:52:28 pm PDT #6131 of 6171
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
raises hand
I recently had to track my birth certificate down as part of getting a Real ID and proving that I wasn't nefariously trying to renew someone else's expired driver's license. It would have *really* been a pain trying to get access if my mother and I didn't have a joint account, as apparently the expired license wasn't considered valid ID by the bank whose safety deposit box it was stored in.