Trade ya, and thanks for the reminder that not everyone lives where and how I do. Around these parts, the weather forecast is “100-ish and sunny and dry and HOT” for roughly the next three months. It does make predicting the weather easy, although our weather forecasters trade that in return for being yelled at by sunstroke-addled members of the general public. “Dammit WeatherBob, can’t you predict some fucking clouds or somethin’ ?”
Don’t worry. At our company, the BHAG is quickly forgotten after 3 months than the geniuses that run it come up with a new one!
I don’t get to go on the trip 
Just to make it even more annoying, because we were expecting the temp back, we’re now going to be short staffed (again) for the summer holidays, aka the busiest time. No way they’re going to get anyone new and up to speed in the next week.
So… no holiday, extra shifts, and everyone rushed off their feet and probably in a rotten mood. Joy.
I need a new job.
here’s my rant; why do we have to have one party that wants to ban abortion, pornography (at least in their platform), cut taxes for the rich, and barely acknowledges any anti-black racism exists, and another party that wants to poopoo Radical Islamic Terror, has some members who want to import Muslim refugees as some sort of new voter base, doesn’t acknowledge that some aspects of black culture need to change, and has a base that is increasingly anti-Israel (an un-American position)?
My brother and his 26 year old son came to visit and attend the wedding of my sister’s 30 year old son on Saturday (which I officiated). Then, on Sunday I took everyone out for a day on the Allegheny River pontooning.
I didn’t notice my brother’s son’s t-shirt until we were on the water. It was an old shirt with cartoon characters I didn’t recognize and in large type, “FUCK THE POLICE”.
Lousy timing (Baton Rouge). Luckily, no awkward situations ensued.
Ha! I decided that at like 30. You really don’t need to dance to society’s expectations if you don’t want. I mean, I have to work and all that, and a few networking things, but frankly if I don’t want to go to social events, I don’t. I also don’t dance to the expectations of family. They’re family, doesn’t mean they get to control my life.
I had no credit for a while, too. The way I did it is went to my bank account and asked for a credit card that was tied to my account. Then I started charging on it, every month, and paying it off. A few years later I was able to get a regular credit card and did the same. Now my credit score is really high. I know it doesn’t help you now, but you should start building your credit as soon as possible. Remember how I said above I chose to opt out of a lot of the world’s games? Unfortunately this isn’t one you can opt out of! Even rental places do credit checks now. 
Oh yes! I had to open some sinus headache medicine this morning, same way.
Agreed! Also anyone who has a tattoo in Hindi or Sanskrit and doesn’t even speak the goddamn language and can’t even spell it right. It’s so disrespectful, appropriating my culture even though you don’t know anything about it. No, I am not going to advocate for them to stop. I just want my bag of circus peanuts.
That really sucks. I have acid reflux also.
I think it is. I listen to my music “loud”. But even at my loudest, it’s nowhere near that bass thumping crap.
Although I will tell the story I am endlessly amused by: puling into downtown Albany, and this dude is pulled off to the side, blasting his music with those mega speakers, and it’s filling the whole neighborhood, and…it’s MOZART.
So awesome.
1> No one is 'poopoo’ing it, we just don’t blame all 1.4 million Muslims for every incident like you do.
2> Allowing Refugees to settle here is the American Way. And 10,000 or so refugees are a drop in the bucket. My own state has one of the largest settlements of Hmong refugees and of Somali refugees. This is our history and our character.
3> You don’t get to Whitesplain the problems of black people to them. Work on NOT subjecting them to racism and discrimination and you will be making a positive contribution. Otherwise you’re just an ass.
4> Having issues with Israel isn’t ‘anti-American’ or anti-Semitic. We have every right to decide for ourselves how and under what circumstances we provide support to any nation. Just because many conservatives have a hard-on for seeing Israel exist only so it can be destroyed for their rapture and Armageddon doesn’t mean we do anything they ask, or that you really support them at heart.
Another gripe about MS Office
I have to check a lot of PPTs at work for mistakes. Whenever I advance to the next slide, it vibrates. It’s highly annoying.
So, I found a page that instructs how to disable Office animations. I don’t get their logic here. I have to open a panel called Use the Computer Without a Display and click** Turn off Unnecessary Animations (when possible)**. It’s like they think only blind people wouldn’t want animations that they can’t see anyway! Hey Bill and Bill’s cocksuckers, NOBODY WANTS THE STUPID ANIMATIONS, ESPECIALLY IF THEY CAN SEE THEM!
Now the slides only vibrate half as long as they did before. The quarter-second vibration has been deemed necessary by the geniuses at Microbrains.
I really don’t understand why not supporting Israel wholeheartedly somehow equates to be un-American anyway. I’ll tell you what’s un-American - telling me what I can or can’t do! :mad: I will support whomever I like! that’s the beauty of living in this country!
When you get on the train in the morning and a coworker sees you and wants to chat
…it produces sententia interrupta? Did you have a stroke or something?
No, I’m totally with him. God, I’m not even at work yet. I don’t even like seeing my coworkers in the parking lot. Let me get inside and I will be my bright and cheery self but I don’t want to talk to you on the train.
But you still talk in complete sentences, even if you’d rather brain me for being fully awake way too early…
Ear buds and a kindle.
Works for me.
Oh god. I once shared a room with a “morning person”. I swear, I wanted to straight up murder her. Do you remember in, I think it was All of Me, Steve Martin wakes up next to a girl who proceeds to do somersaults in the morning? That’s what this girl was like.
I am not a cranky, evil person in the morning. I would however prefer that you leave me alone! As a result I get more work done in the morning than any other time. 
OK, turns out all I had to do was resize the window to get it to stop vibrating.
Microsoft still sucks for thinking only blind people wouldn’t want animations.
Another wreck on the freeway this morning?!?!?! Do you people even HAVE frontal lobes?!?!?!
My daughter is probably being sent home from camp early because they can’t handle her behavior. So much for a few kid-free days.
Yes. While I hate growing older, it is much better than the alternative.
I have to laugh when people congratulate you on a birthday…
“Yeah, it was a lot of work doing almost nothing for a year, but I made it. I’m thinking of breathing and eating and sleeping for another 365, so get ready to wish me well next year, too…”