In a week's time I'll have gone to a wedding, funeral and baby shower. Hitting all the life milestones in a small space of time. The funeral is a coworkers husband (one of my Lunch Lady friends). She recently retired from here, so she's quite a bit older than me, but her husband was only 68 with no major health issues when he suddenly died. I was ( Read more... )

Oh, LJ how I forget about you ( Read more... )

I went to a website for the National Organization for Marriage that was linked to a news article I read about gay marriage in Vermont. I wanted to read first hand the argument against gay marriage legislation. I'm writing this here to critically examine the answers given by the site and to get any feedback from people reading this. I want to know ( Read more... )

Cubicle life is very strange when you think about it. I sit in a little niche with fake walls and that's my space to live in while I'm here. Today we had another one of our World War 3 staff meetings where everyone was shouting and talking over each other. Later "the system was down" so we couldn't do any work. We sat around talking about whatever ( Read more... )

I wonder if the Louisiana governor still thinks volcano monitoring is laughable?
Alaska Volcano Erupts

Article on Volcano and Bobby Jindal

In regards to a friend's post on All Things Twitter, it seems like Twitter has really hit the mainstream media lately. I can't turn on the radio or see 5 minutes of local "news" (term used loosely) without hearing some lame-o reporting riff on "tweeting." And they say this with such a wry excitement, like they are the first to use this term. I ( Read more... )

News reporting at its best... spoiled people discover they don't have to buy something just because they feel like itSome of these articles on how people are saving money in a recession time are unbelievable. One couple is cutting back on the number of yearly vacations from 3 or 4 to just one. Boo hoo! "We're actually getting on a plane to Hawaii ( Read more... )

I just had my annual review and it was fairly typical: positive, high marks, nice comments. I didn't realize just how fortunate I am until I heard about two people I work with who got negative reviews and were openly discussing it. One person I work with pretty closely, it's not really a surprise to me that her review wasn't great, but it's more of ( Read more... )

Our household sick. Nothing serious, just a hodgepodge of some sort of virus or sinus infection. I've had a sore throat for weeks that keeps lingering, and for at least a week I was totally exhausted. Now that I have medicine Jason has crossed over into the Land of Sick. :( It's harder seeing someone else sick sometimes. But we talked the other day ( Read more... )

My company is downgrading so much that now the copier paper is thinner. I'm holding a piece printed yesterday and a piece today and there is a difference. As long as it doesn't get so thin it's translucent I guess it will be fine ( Read more... )