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I need everyone's address for...no reason. Scint/Orthos first.

I see you have chosen violence.

Merry Christmas!

The children woke us with the news that the tree had fallen over sometime during the night, and miraculously, not a single ornament broke!

Hermione and Teensy Valeros are being sweet and kind to each other, and everyone is sitting around the living room, quietly reading their new books.

Bliss.

That's the sort of behavior where I start wondering when the police officers are going to show up at the door.

Holidays!

Happy birthday, you gigantic goof.

I swear, watching my brother act as executor of my mother's estate is an out-and-out terrifying embarrassment. You'd expect that if you were named executor of a decent-sized estate, you'd at least do *some* reading up on it before the person passed away. Instead my brother's doing his utmost to get us in legal trouble as quickly as possible:

I was an only child, sole heir, and executor for my mother's estate. It was 2 years before I was able to touch any of it.

Orthos wrote:

Ivan Rûski wrote:

'Sup, FaWtLfolk?

Hiya! Long time no see :)

Yeah, if I keep my current trend with my appearances here, I won't be seen again until like 2030. :p

Unfortunately, [terrible stuff happened]

Admitting your mistakes and taking responsibility goes a long way. It won't fix it, but you don't need me to tell you that.

captain yesterday wrote:

I've now been working for 10 days straight, and 13 out of 14 days.

Employees pay with organ failure because we don't pay employees enough to get a bunch of them is NOT a viable business model....

Snow removal in WI. It's hard to get people willing and capable. Most quit fairly quickly.

*hugs*

NobodysHome wrote:

Finally, the hospice nurse said that my mother has less than a week to live, so tomorrow morning at 4:30 am I'm driving up to Seattle to see her off. I'll be gone for a few days.

Aargh. Sending big hugs and every prayer that she is able to die peacefully, painlessly, and with dignity.

And that things with your brothers are as uncomplicated as possible.

Love you, NH.

I would simply like to add my voice of agreement to this sentiment.

Yes. And my cats looked at it, said nope, and I haven't been able to get it out of my house since. My wife bought it against my wishes because I knew our cats weren't going to touch it.

I would pay a lot of money to make it disappear. I'd think about hiring David F'in Copperfield for a private show to get this outta here.

If I knew you wanted one of those I'd have shipped you ours. For free.

...I get that. My maternal grandmother was born just before the Depression...

All of my grandparents were Depression era. Grandad (paternal grandfather) was the only one who would talk about it much.

"During the Depression I was just grateful that I was a boy. It meant I always had something to play with when I woke up every morning."

I was 6 when he told me that.

BigNorseWolf wrote:

Put up a sign pool closed due to alligators and hope there isn't a druid for whom that's a bonus?

I worked at 2 hotels in Florida that had outdoor pools. Gators were always a possibility. Never happened while I was there, but heard about it happening previously, and another hotel nearby had it happen while I was down there.

It happened to my in-laws.

I used to have a couple of those as well.

OMG, I'm glad he's OK!

And holy carp.

Quite literally, the staff at the Oakland Children's Hospital knew us by name. "Oh, is it Impus Major or Impus Minor this time? How are you doing?"

I was personally and directly informed that I am not allowed to provide Valeros a proper blowgun to avoid future dart swallowing.

Probably should give the lad back some points if he doesn’t own a monocle, smoking jacket, and fluffy white cat.

No.

He just needs to try harder. Maybe spend some of that money to get the proper accoutrements. Truly commit to it.

When the bar is "which one at this price point is the least crappy"...

I hate printers and copiers. I'm generally not fond of the companies that sell and/or lease these devices to other companies. I utterly detest technicians that lie to their customers and tell them that I'm the idiot who's doing everything wrong.

For some reason they get very silent when I send them proof of their incompetence, include the customer on the email, and explain it so that the customer understands my point.

Some happy news:

Some of you may remember that, two years ago at Christmas, Hermione's godmother and her wife were trying to adopt a baby after rounds and rounds of IVF failures, were finally approved, flew to Philadelphia to pick up their son, and the birth mother changed her mind and kept the boy and they flew home to an empty nursery?

Today, almost two years later, they finally adopted and brought home a baby girl. They didn't even tell anyone that there was a chance it might happen until they got her home.

Huge congrats to them.

Tacticslion wrote:

NobodysHome wrote:

Owls well that ends well.

Man, you guys are a hoot.

... one year later...

God bless you all, and hope you're doing well!

Oh dear. There he is again. Just when I was convinced it was all a hallucination, the voices come back to say "Hi." And then they wave. Just like a lunatic. And I always wave back. I can't stop myself. Not even sure if I want to. Not all of the voices are bad you know.

No I don't know where this came from. Why would you ask?

Mine do the same thing, but it's usually in St. Louis.

At least the cop was reasonable about it with the verbal. I know one city in between us where they would have gone straight to a ticket with no discussion on the matter.

"Checking email" is not even considered a daily task at some organizations. I have someone that will only converse via email on Tuesdays.

Justified people rant

Hey, don't send them over here. I got enough of them to deal with already.

I lost my humanity years ago.

Err...umm...

Hi!?

(Yes, good recovery. I'm certain no one noticed.)

Let's make the water turn black!

You have got to stop whispering such sexy things into my ears.

gran rey de los mono wrote:

Vanykrye wrote:

Drugs.

No thanks, I'm good.

Oh, did you mean the guest? I doubt it. I assume he didn't change his previous search, and so it showed him hotels where he had last been, and since it was after midnight, he couldn't book for Monday night anymore. So, basically, he likely just wasn't paying any attention while trying to book a room.

Or he wanted to walk 4/10ths of 500 miles so he could walk 800 more.

I have never liked that song, but I like it a little bit more now just because you caused Freehold pain.

Drugs.

Cosmo. Dude. We've talked about this. It's Friday.

You killed power to an entire town last night. I was *eventually* able to get my client's servers to come back up and behave normally, but it took a few hours and I have to get a root cause on why the SAN took four hours to stabilize after coming back up.

Then I got notified that a different client in a different town in the complete opposite direction was having horrible noises coming from their server room. Go out there and yeah...UPS battery backups aren't supposed to make crackling sounds.

This is all on you.

Knock it off.

Yeah, 93F with 75% humidity is not doing me any favors. I'd rather do 105F in Arizona than this.

If you didn't leave a message, then it wasn't important and I'm not calling you back.

I blame Cosmo for also being one of the people who bought that corner store.

Also for picking the other buyer, who is likely Cosmo's clone.

I blame Cosmo for cloned sheep as well, obviously. The logic is sound.

Oh, I knew you were going to enjoy that one.

Yes, I will make that speech naked. Adds to the absurdity of the request.

Today I was asked by a client to do something both creepy and also illegal in multiple countries.

It was a great day.

I have been asked again, by the same person at the same client.

The request was a report of all employees who have more than 200 unread emails in their mailbox and how much over 200.

No.

"So how am I supposed to know who is behind in their work? Open all their emails? Please advise?"

I can't tell you how to manage your employees, but I can tell you that's a useless metric for basing anything from. I can also tell you "No.". You should also STEP DOWN AS THE CEO.

Vanykrye wrote:

Today I was asked by a client to do something both creepy and also illegal in multiple countries.

It was a great day.

Obviously you agreed to do it.

No, I didn't. *I* found it creepy.

Also, I don't have the level of access needed to furnish the client with the requested data. And I'm very happy for that to remain true.

Today I was asked by a client to do something both creepy and also illegal in multiple countries.

It was a great day.

On Wednesday I worked from 8am until 6:40am Thursday.

There will be whisky.

Mieko repeatedly escaped a muzzle the vet tried putting on her last week. A cone is no challenge for her.

Some people just need to be tied up and left in a car's trunk for a day or two.

What? Why are you looking at me like that?

Not so much gone as just lacking security certificates, which at this point means do not use.

I had a planned 5 day weekend but I'm stretching it to 6. It's ridiculous that I can drive 7000 miles in 11 days and be fine, but put me on a plane for 2000 miles each way and suddenly my body forgets that I'm supposed to be able to walk.

And said app will have the same robust security as using pasta as a door lock.

Back at the airport. Heading to Seattle.

The Adult Kid lives in that town as well...near the Virginia. She hasn't mentioned anything about their power, so I assume she and her boyfriend are good.

I tend not to think about meatballs.

I did ask a parent with a leashed kid if the child was feral. I got a confused look that I took for "don't know what that means". So I rephrased. Was your kid raised by woodland animals? Not housebroken yet? I'm confused why you need a leash on your kid. Does it also come with a bell on the harness?

I may have been more than a tad upset with this person. Spent more time posing for selfies in the grocery store than actually shopping or paying attention to...the world around them in a general sense...

Friend of mine doesn't understand what I do for a living.

I ran into a strange audio issue on 2 of the three PCs in the house. Minor annoyance, I'll get to it later.

He's trying to help me troubleshoot, unasked. He's just trying to be helpful, and he is a friend. I'm trying so hard not to tell him to just go away.

I made peach sourdough discard muffins for breakfast this morning. They were freaking amazing.

You mean AI made you some peach sourdough discard muffins for breakfast.

*Waves at NH*

Ouch TOZ. Been there. You have my sympathies.

I hope the election goes in whatever direction you feel is clearly best.