As a follow-up to my complaint about Matilda being a fusspot last week, it should in fairness be noted that it turned out she had a UTI. Which would make a lot of people cranky.

Oh hell yes. Hopefully the crankiness will be cured swiftly by antibiotics.

It makes ME hella cranky. And everything DOES hurt!!

Poor boo. Swift healing ~ma coming her way.

Aw, poor Matilda! Ow.

Exciting, Perkins!!

But she's too demented to be rational on the subject and not demented enough not to know what's going on...

Ugh, I'm so sorry.

Which would make a lot of people cranky.

OMG, yes. Poor noodle!

She definitely seems to be feeling better already and acting more cheerful, just three doses in. And she was a stellar, sterling trooper at the visit to urgent care.

Many good and non-disturbingly-violent thoughts, ita. And all sorts of coping and comfort to you and your family, Suela. At least it's good -- oh, hell, none of it's good, at all, but it seems less bad than it could be that at least you and your sibs seem to be communicating and working together instead of (as too often happens) everyone dumping all the responsibility and tough decision making into one person's lap. A long-term solution would be the best thing, but I'm glad you at least have sibs you can visit and decompress and drink with.

ICompletelyON, did anyone else read about the complete bag-of-dicks law firm that mocked its foreclosure victims at last year's Halloween party and got outed by a disgruntled ex-employee who sent a bunch of truly shameful party photos to an NYT reporter? They've gone out of business. The schadenfreude pie is dense and rich. I hope they choke on it.

Huh. The guy I threatened is a big Supernatural fan. Now I feel even worse. He's the first person to comment on my cubicle poster.

Hey, people who use their own phones or tablets or computers for work, how locked down does your company have them? I just found out that with my current setup, if I quit, my company will immediately erase my entire tablet, even if I go under good circumstances. Which means I should do what the networking guy with the iPad who left last week did--get them to disconnect the email for "no reason" before he hands in his notice.

They're going to install a piece of software that walls off the work email and calendars, so only that will be wiped off on separation, but then I lose some of the advantages of integraton--I might not be able to look at all my calendars at once to see my free time.

ita, I *just* got my work email on my phone today. They pay for my mobile phone (through reimbursement, up to a certain less-than-it-costs-per-month cap, not directly). But it's mine (and when I just bought a new one, I paid for that). I'm still figuring out how to use it, but it's a separate app, so I'm assuming that if/when I were to leave the company, they could just kill my access through the app.

Though I also assume that even if they somehow did wipe the phone, I could restore from my computer. But no one mentioned wiping the whole thing anywhere I saw.

I am irked that it is a separate app, and I can't sync the calendar to the calendar app, but I'm willing to put everything on my work calendar (I can either click the "private" button, or just call it something vague that works for me)

I'm still figuring out how to use it, but it's a separate app, so I'm assuming that if/when I were to leave the company, they could just kill my access through the app.

Is it Good? That's what we have. I think they just wipe the app.

Is it Good? That's what we have. I think they just wipe the app.

Yes. Whew.

Though I'm still trying to figure out how exactly it works--people send me enough things with attachments that I'd rather only download when I want, or only download subject lines, or something, rather than always getting all the new mail--I'm afraid I'll burn through my data allowance! (Though I guess if it happens in one month, I can just delete the app)

Yeah, I don't know how the data works! Because, yeah, downloading all my inbox?? That's got to be huge. I have 2 GB of high-speed data, though, and I haven't come close to going over yet.

I don't think it downloads the attachments unless you download it to open it. But it has the ability to open PDFs, which is pretty useful!