This is a phrase that tends to go through my head a lot. Mostly whenever I encounter homeless people. It's an attempt to remind myself that I shouldn't be complacent, that all it would take is a managerial decision for me to be laid off, fired, or whatever clever euphemism my company is using to refer to it this time to not say those words and ( Read more... )

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- Nicole Chase (@SpaceAgNicole) January 20, 2017

Today was a momentous day today; I honestly can't remember a presidential inaugration so burned into my memory this way. I find it deeply ironic that is pouring buckets here in California, a state that has pledged to resist "any effort that would shred our ( Read more... )

Nothing like coming into work having not been the California resident who will share in the $1.5 billion Power Ball lottery (although I did match 1 number--perhaps a new record for me), facing doing a performance review at work (late), managing to spill coffee all down my front (as well as my desk and the floor), and then discovering Alan Rickman ( Read more... )

Enjoy the earworm as much as I do!

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Have one of my favorite songs for this day.

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Or as some people I know in Montreal twigged me to, River in the SkyAnyway alive, not dead, and afaik, nothing majorly damaged around my house ( Read more... )

We have a rather massive rainstorm hitting northern California today. Huge amounts of rain projected, high winds and, up in the mountains (several hours) east of us, they're projecting two feet of snow and wind gusts of up to 100 mph (for the metric readers, that's 161 km/h ( Read more... )

Those who see human rights as consisting of men’s rights labeled every woman who spoke up for justice as a man-hating, bra-burning, intolerant shrew. With much of the media supporting their view, they successfully degraded the meaning of the words feminism and feminist, identifying them with intolerance to the point of making them almost useless, ( Read more... )

tavella and zdashamber were gracious enough to acquiesce to my desire to watch Good Morning, Vietnam last night in lieu of our regular Movie Nite plans ( Read more... )

Philip Seymour Hoffman died at 46, and this makes me sadder than I would expect it to.

( Weekendage )