My hands are freezing too, even though I’ve been holding multiple cups of coffee. I used to have a collection of fingerless gloves so I could type/cook/whatever, but they’ve since all disappeared…
I swear, whoever designed our house made no correlation between window and HVAC placement. The older part of the house (where I am now) has in-wall radiators underneath the windows. WTH?!? If you turn on the heat it just goes up and out…?!? The addition has baseboard which is better but still has its quirks.
I mean, here in the living room, the only place to put the couch is against the long wall where the radiator is…
According to my phone, it’s 51 outside now, with an expected high of 52. So of course the office A/C is cycling as if it’s mid-July. :rolleyes: The thermostat is near my desk, but if I jump out there now to adjust it I risk getting the “women are always freezing” comments from certain coworkers, so I’ll wait until lunch to deal with it. I’ve already been to the restroom twice to run hot water on my hands.
Accurate drawings and thick, USB powered heated gloves do not go well together.
Somebody email/text/tweet Al Gore and tell him to bump up his heated pool a few degrees, they are talking single digets Saturday morning here. Water should be a liquid!
I like Doctor Who. I like that they’re making references to outfits worn by previous doctors. But I agree, they did a bad job of putting them together. It *does *look like a clown’s outfit. :mad:
A bit. But both the stripes and the suspenders are placed in such a way that they draw attention to some, errr, salient points. Not sure if that was intentional or not, but if it was, I disapprove. Frankly, I liked the hoody/coat combo better.
This is incredibly reassuring (not the part about someone scamming you - I’m glad things worked out ). Today is the first day since the 30th that I’v been more than 24 hours without advil. I had no idea it was going to last that long. And god forbid you google it - that yielded all kinds of dire warnings about tooth extractions, root canals and other procedures sure to happen if it still hurt.
I’m sure that now that I’ve scoffed at that, I’ll be having a root canal followed by a tooth extraction within the year. :smack:
People who cook fish in office break room microwaves should be condemned to eat nothing but surströmming and hákarl for the next five weeks while they sit in solitary confinement.
Mini-rants are not allowed to fall off the front page! Come-on people, bitch about something!
How about-people who use too many hyphens in their posts??
I’m no closer to having a job than I was at the end of August. And it is bloody amazing how many people think I’d be willing to apply to a 3-month contract in, say, Austin, Texas, or someplace in Idaho when I live close to Philadelphia.
I’m beginning to wonder if I should consider relocation, but I *like *where I live, and my bookcases are all built-ins.
I’m currently watching one particular documentary series about air crash investigation, and two things about it are driving me batty:
Please, PLEASE, lose the computer blips and beeps sound effects—that was cool back in 1985, but we all know no computers sound like that.
And please stop modeling office environments after CSI; real offices have plenty of overhead lighting and no transparent whiteboards.
That kind of stuff is passable in a fictional universe like the CSI shows, but not in a documentary.
About a month ago an external recruiter put me in for a position with a consulting company that does federal contracts. They interviewed me and a week later I got a phone call from the recruiter saying that they heard from the client that they liked me and wanted to offer me the position. A few days later I got an automated email rejection from the client agency. Figuring it was just a miscommunication, I called the recruiter to inquire. They investigated and called me back to confirm: the client had selected me for the job and then selected someone else also and marked me as rejected. My recruiter said she didn’t get any details of why they did that but she reassured me that she read them the riot act. Based on the quick timeline she thinks they were just being jerks (internal miscommunication and not caring about external impacts).
We had our Thanksgiving potluck at work today. The organizers of the event seem to be under the impression that ‘cranberry congeal salad’ is exactly the same as a small carton of whole berry cranberry sauce, and how dare I show up with cranberry sauce when Betty has been showing up with ‘congeal salad’ for years, and kids today just don’t appreciate ‘congeal salads,’ and we don’t need more cranberry stuff because Betty’s ‘congeal salad’ is enough for the whole company.
My first experience with this was somewhat pre-internet, when I had my wisdom teeth extracted…I had nothing but horror stories from friends (including the one who swallowed so much blood that she spent the whole night throwing up), then had to watch the disclaimer video in the oral surgeon’s office that went on and on about how many ways you can die from the procedure. :eek:
My dog got skunked last night. Holy hell that fresh skunk smell - like gasoline and sulfur. He came running in through the doggie door drooling, sneezing, one eye shut. I got him into the tub and washed his face with luke-warm water, then a baking soda slurry, then more water.
He’s fine now, but he still smells nasty, more like classic skunk™. I fear I may have lost the area rug in the entry, he kind of rubbed his face on it when he came in.
I got some enzyme skunk smell stuff on the way in to work, but have to wait until the end of the day to see if it will help.
For those with cold hands - Buy a halogen desk/reading lamp. If you can get an adjustable one, you can point it anywhere and your hands/keyboard will be toasty.
). Today is the first day since the 30th that I’v been more than 24 hours without advil. I had no idea it was going to last that long. And god forbid you google it - that yielded all kinds of dire warnings about tooth extractions, root canals and other procedures sure to happen if it still hurt.
