Ginger wins. Quick, give her command of a starship.

only 11 and I am HUNgry. I have healthy frozen meal options in the freezer, but am craving something else. Not sure what. Probably a fried food sampler platter, but that may not be the best idea. thoughts? suggestions?

What are they not getting?

Unfortunately, as much as I beg, no one will give me that much detail. And the context that keeps being sent around to flesh out my insufficient documentation is 80% inapplicable to my system. So I consider *it* confusing, not me.

Maybe people aren't sure which subset of users they belong to?

No, it's not even that. I mean, the real life examples are so simple, that's part of why I feel like going into that detail is condescending (basically, the new users aren't allowed to see the pay details of the old users, and vice versa). Boom. End of story.

The temptation to "accidentally" slip Ginger's explanation in is quite tempting. I already have "genre geek" branded on my forehead (my boss won't even use the phrase "twilight zone" without *literally* nodding in my direction), so what would be the harm?

Handful of nuts? Nuts and yogurt are my go to snacks. The power of protein!

But, that's assuming you have these options available.

Star Trek is probably the most mainstream geek.

The temptation to "accidentally" slip Ginger's explanation in is quite tempting. I already have "genre geek" branded on my forehead (my boss won't even use the phrase "twilight zone" without *literally* nodding in my direction), so what would be the harm?

Do it!

Sometimes you really do have to restate what should be obvious because people get so tied up about details that aren't really important.

I had some peanut M&Ms as my 11 o'clock snack.

I'm eating a salad as my 11 o'clock lunch. And, can I just say, I hate having the first lunch period of the day. Lunch at 10:45 is just wrong.

Twitter is kinda creepy. I tweet one picture of me in new T-shirt (and added the tag #teefury for documentation purposes), and now two T-shirt company accounts are following me. Is the expectation I am so flattered that I start buying their products? How does that work?

I still wrestle with the woman who cannot grasp that because something - a mass e-mail or a web page - has been tweaked so it's PERFECT when she looks at it on her office computer, chances are that most people won't see it that way. Or that to many of them it will look like utter crap. Or that, maybe, using 300dpi full-screen images resized in the content manager we use (under duress) will slow down the time it takes someone who's outside the office and may not have broadband to see it. (bitter much?)

As an antidote, I offer this.

And, in regard to dog names, a friend of my parents had a dachshund named Lady Samantha von Wobblebottom.