We had snow, and also it's Cold Out. This has resulted in discussions (not even debates) about The House And How To Heat It. Due to the mini-splits and the basement not being acquainted with each other, see. Result: furnace thermostat turned up, mini-splits will Cope.

I re-did my nails all snow-themed; pics on Mastodon: https://blorbo.social/@azurelunatic/111746342254103550

I did the background color and main glitter before today's appointment, then added things on top after we got back home.

One of my technical challenges is rhinestones. Some of them really don't do well with getting covered in rhinestone glue, and yet just putting them on the surface with a dot or so is a recipe for a lost rhinestone. I've been playing around with various methods, but I think some of it is down to the material. Strong reflective tints retain the faceted look better than a clear color or a faint reflective tint.

Therapy goal from yesterday, long-term: perhaps I could recover to the point where I don't feel like roaring at terrible phone menus. (The prelude to yesterday's conversation about mammograms!)

Today was a heart scan, an appointment engendered by the summer's trip to the ER with moderate chest pains (which I subsequently think were an annoyed ribcage). You can see exactly how concerned they were by the appointment timing...

I was warned that "the nuclear department" (which is in the basement) was Cold, and I should dress accordingly. Also, I should avoid a one-piece outfit, and avoid metal in my top layers. Result: heavy duty yoga pants, a long skirt, a tank top to serve the role of bra, and a pajama shirt. This worked out fine, though I did keep the sweater layer of my outside clothings on as well.

I checked in upstairs, and was ready to wait; I then got redirected to the basement! (Belovedest joined me in singing one of the relevant snatches of Phantom of the Opera.) Then we waited some more. ( Read more... )

Eventually: "You're free to fly!"
I stood up and flapped my wings. (Physical therapy really is helping with the standing up part, incidentally. I added the abdominal exercises to the program myself, and I have the choice of crunches or merely activating the muscle groups without motion.) Then waited for the restroom to be available, and then we were on the road.


Talking with the household about certain workplace entities that need punched in the balls.
"That's what the auto-ball-puncher is for!"
"But I don't trust the automation on that."
"Those are only for infractions that you haven't personally seen happen."
...
"GEESE ARE STORED AT THE COTTAGE."
...
"No, that's built in, no special training needed: if it's dangly and below the waist, they'll go for it."
"NUDE HOT TUB PARTY! ... WHO INVITED THE GEESE?!"
...
"Untitled Goose Game: it needs a character creator."
"Any way you put it, 're-skin the goose' doesn't sound good."
"Does 'reanimate the goose' sound any better?"

Locate something that changed your life (preferably for the better) and share the best/most important part of it. Talk about why.

This quote is from Cyteen, by C.J. Cherryh. ( A brief glossary. )

He said sometimes when you're young you have to think about things, because you're forming your value-sets and you keep coming up with Data Insufficient and finding holes in your programs. So you keep trying to do a fix on your sets. And the more powerful your mind is and the more intense your concentration is, the worse damage you can do to yourself, which is why, Justin says, Alphas always have trouble and some of them go way off and out-there, and why almost all Alphas are eccentric. But he says the best thing you can do if you're too bright for your own good is what the Testers do, be aware where you got which idea, keep a tab on everything, know how your ideas link up with each other and with your deep-sets and value-sets, so when you're forty or fifty or a hundred forty and you find something that doesn't work, you can still find all the threads and pull them.

But that's not real easy unless you know what your value-sets are, and most CITs don't. CITs have a trouble with not wanting to know that kind of thing. Because some of them are real eetee once you get to thinking about how they link. Especially about sex and ego-nets.

Justin says inflexibility is a trap and most Alpha types are inward-turned because they process so fast they're gone and thinking before a Gamma gets a sentence out. Then they get in the habit of thinking they thought of everything, but they don't remember everything stems from input. You may have a new idea, but it stems from input somebody gave you, and that could be wrong or your senses could have been lying to you. He says it can be an equipment-quality problem or a program-quality problem, but once an Alpha takes a falsehood for true, it's a personal problem.

This was important for me because I was about fifteen when I read this book for the first time, and dealing firsthand with the problems of being too smart for my own good and undersocialized. I started trying to trace back where I got some of my weird ideas from, and became at least marginally more aware of what I was putting in my head. While it did not solve all my problems, it provided a good solid basis to start from, and was very helpful as a common set of vocabulary when iroshi started me rewiring my brain into something functional, thank-you-very-much, after the mess of it that was left in the aftermaths of Shawn and BJ.

• 02:46 tinyurl.com/5u79lo is cracking me up even after several re-reads. Warning: drug abuse, lack of sanity. #
• 03:18 Reading A Storm of Swords. I approve of Dany's large purchase, when accompanied with her strategy. #
• 04:04 @afuna George R.R. Martin, most recently seen on a panel with ursulav. #
• 04:18 @afuna I'm still midway through the second. I have the third waiting for me. Maybe by the time I'm done, it'll be out? #
• 04:20 I can only imagine!! There's been so much so far! I am starting to like Tyrion more. Jamie is bad, and Joffrey just needs killin'. #
• 05:53 @museumfreak There was that one other day. Odd how it usually happens over books. #
• 16:45 @ursamajor I have the same problem with poor @gameboyguy13's name. Exact same problem. I only rarely mistype an 'a' there, happily... #
• 16:47 @afuna At that point it ceases to be a conversation! It is just shouting in the same room! #
• 17:19 Reading. Joff's wedding. OMG. (Never mind the previous wedding.) #
• 20:02 heading to game night with my PINK D10s. #
• 22:34 Gaming apartment has wireless. Winz. #
• 23:10 @afuna noon. #
• 23:16 gamequote: "DEAR GOD, DOG! YOU WANT MY ASS NOW!" -- Ryan is getting sniffed without his consent. #

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4:45 AM 3/28/2008
(Context: Can't get the battleaxe through airport security.)
"THIS IS BECAUSE I'M A 7TH LEVEL DWARF, ISN'T IT! (I'm playing the race and class card.)"


4:51 AM 3/28/2008
(Context: going out drinking in the morning and getting a DWI at 7am.)
" 'Is that an open container?' 'No, that was from yesterday.' "

First, the good news: I have the damn reports in a place where I can near-replicate what the Queen Bee was putting out, in like half the time, and broken down by job.

The bad news: it's still not done, 'cause we want bells and whistles on.

The good news: This stuff ROCKS. We issued a prototype to the people doing workshop today. They were thrilled to pieces. Oh, and I had a meeting with the web guy. We've seen each other's names all over, but this is the first time we've actually met. (He's married. There are pictures of the wife and family in the cubicle.)

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Dan Savage tells it like it is to a self-inflicting masochist: ( not safe for work or the sensitive of genitalia ) OMG. *giggle* *giggle*

AFF.net Death Note fic, Light/L

( Quotations meme -- pick ten! )

I think we're a couple of dunces short of a confederacy.

I find some people just irrationally annoying in the morning. Fortunately, I don't work closely with any of them. Unfortunately, I do have to monitor them.


I try to be fair.

Free Fall Guy is in again today. It's his second day. It's also his second minus report. There are some mistakes that can be overlooked in a beginner. There are some things that cannot, like calling back people who have unmistakably hung up on you.

By specific request of the Princess, I monitor someone again... someone who potentially may be hanging up on people or sitting on screens at lunchtime so that she is sure to go on break at the right time without danger of being delayed.

I am pulling a double shift today; I'm check-in/monitor this afternoon. I'm monitor-only this morning. There were 4 monitors scheduled, but we didn't have enough people to warrant that many, so Trader Joe's Queen went back on the phones for the day. I agree with the idea that the Queen Bee Monitor has about over-scheduling monitors to ensure proper coverage of $ISSUE_SIDE_JOB.

Why are you guys playing with my onions? I wasn't tailgating, but I did rear-end the person. My nose is a very powerful thing.

"I'm having a mad bath day, aren't I." -- me, upon realizing that 23+2 = 25, instead of 24.

Teaching Pink Shirt Guy a few things about computers, specifically, spreadsheets. He strikes me as sarcastic and cynical enough to have made a good BOfH had he gone into the correct field.

Dismissing phone goons for break takes a lot of boring repetition in hollering things. To wit: "If you're not on the phone, go ahead, go on break; if you're not on the phone, go ahead, go on break; if you're not on the phone, go ahead, go on break; if you're not on the phone, go ahead, hit the computer; if you're not on the phone, go ahead, go on break..."

One booth is out because the left-side control key isn't working. This is an insurmountable obstacle for the less tech-savvy. One booth is out because the CRT is going bad, and no longer displays yellow. Our survey telnet is white text on blue background. This means it's now pink text on a blue background, which is very good for gender awareness, but also very difficult to read, and an insult to the tender masculinity of no few phone goons.

Resp: "I don't believe in surveys."
Phone goon: "I assure you, they're very real, sir. ... Are you real?"

It, for the love of God, is hassle, not hastle. I assure you. Also, see Bob the Angry Flower on the subject of apostrophes. Trust me, the little NET SEND in the direction of your booth on the topic was a veritable love note.

Potato wedgies: not just eyes anymore! - me I said the system was down. Can we please keep it down? -M

The other supervisors have discovered the fact that I know about chickens. Highlights included Cute Poser-Geek Super making bad jokes about "cock", and the eating thereof, and demonstrating his utter ignorance of what animals one can and can't eat. (One can eat male cattle. One can eat male chickens. One should avoid eating an animal that has just up and died, lest it have something nasty.)

Silliness followed, resulting in a foot-in-mouth moment for Stressy College Chick: there was the obligatory Workplace Casting Thread, which moved from Powder to Curious George, and cast Stressy College Chick as The Man in the Yellow Hat. Stressy College Chick admitted that she in fact really could go for a banana just now.

Rev. Nice Super: "I have a banana for you: in my pants!"
Stressy College Chick: "I was looking for a banana that's more yellow."
All: *fall on floor laughing* *gasp things to the effect of that being DREADFUL*

Figment went home, at my insistence, following him not being able to string together a coherent sentence.

"If I find something in the shower, I might say 'dookey', but otherwise, I enjoy being adult enough to say 'shit'." -- Rev. Nice Super

There was some rousing discussion about how Rev. Nice Super and Cute Poser-Geek Super are really an OTP. Rev. Nice Super attempted to establish that Cute Poser-Geek Super and I are perfect for each other. I am not a goth, despite the clothing. (Gilly the Perky-Goth?)

Work is fun.