The one advantage of going back to Previous Employer would be getting back on a 9/80 schedule, which means a three day weekend every other week. So useful.
Dad's surgery must be over, I'm waiting for the doctor to come talk to me.
I believe that's my hey. Hey!
Xander ,'Storyteller'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Consuela - Feb 10, 2014 7:16:15 am PST #19723 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Sophia Brooks - Feb 10, 2014 7:31:19 am PST #19724 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I feel like retirement is going to be wasted when I am old. I wish I could do something like a reverse retirement!
I also have an irrational hatred for the words "Plenary Session" at any conference that is just a tiny tiny thing that no outside people are invited to. It is too formal. Also, this particular "conference" has 4 plenary sessions and lunch. There are no other kind of sessions.
Jesse - Feb 10, 2014 7:47:03 am PST #19725 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I don't know that that hatred is all that irrational....
The one advantage of going back to Previous Employer would be getting back on a 9/80 schedule, which means a three day weekend every other week. So useful.
Yeah, I think I would like that. It wouldn't fly here, I don't think, because people basically work all the time.
Sophia Brooks - Feb 10, 2014 8:24:05 am PST #19726 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I am pondering aspic(s) today. Why, why, why aspic? I have never had it, and I probably should try, but it seems so unappetizing. But, they were very popular from at least the late 1800's to, like, 1950, right? But WHY?
Tom Scola - Feb 10, 2014 8:27:00 am PST #19727 of 30000
hwæt
why aspic?
There are lots of things that are objectively gross and disgusting that people nonetheless consume. Like cauliflower.
Amy - Feb 10, 2014 8:29:49 am PST #19728 of 30000
Because books.
Maybe because you could make it ahead and it didn't have to be served warm or really cold, Sophia? It's basically savory Jell-o, right?
I have inflamed lungs. And an antibiotic prescription. Whoo. My blood pressure was also 150/90 or something, which was unnerving. My blood pressure is usually normal to low.
So ready for winter to be over.
Calli - Feb 10, 2014 8:44:21 am PST #19729 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I've seen some snow coming down today, but nothing's sticking. And it looks like a couple of flocks of birds decided to hold a defecation contest on the window next to my cube. Sadly, the snow isn't washing that away. People keep coming up behind me, exclaiming "What is that?" Me: bird crap. Them: Why is it there?
I'm not the bird whisperer--how should I know?
Dana - Feb 10, 2014 8:51:15 am PST #19730 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
There are lots of things that are objectively gross and disgusting that people nonetheless consume. Like cauliflower.
And Tom Scola throws down the cauliflower gauntlet!
Ginger - Feb 10, 2014 9:09:04 am PST #19731 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I'm trying to decide if there's anything I need to do to prepare for Snowpocalypse 2: Electric Bugaloo. This time they're talking ice storm for Wednesday, so losing power is possible.
msbelle - Feb 10, 2014 9:27:57 am PST #19732 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
No President's Day for me either. Of course school will be out though. I wish I could get a job with the district for matching days off with mac.
I am in put away paper mode at both home and office. I have a grocery bag of paper already for recycling and got a small pile filed. WHEE. Pretty soon I am going to be left with only non-easy to deal with items on my desk.