@Geist: My dad, when I talked to him after dropping my grandma off after dinner, said that they had only learned about it earlier in the week. And there were many opportunities to mention it, like dinner on Saturday when we were all together(well, everyone that lives in the one house). But I've come to accept I'm 99.9999~% of the time the last to learn about anything.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-12-19T12:59:55-05:00
@GM, I don't know if its the case or not, but I would chalk it up to your parents trying to protect you from the bad news. No matter how old you get, you will still be their "baby", I don't think you can blame them for that one bro! ;)
@Geist: All last week for me. While running the large payroll that requires the most attention. Interrupted with "urgent" stuff that was known about(by the people who needed it) a few weeks in advance, but come to me with hours notice or them going into the meeting it's needed for.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-12-19T14:43:40-05:00
@GM & BaKhan: Sometimes I think people only are friendly to me because they expect me to put them first whenever they come calling. One woman I've been going to lunch with is on vacation but calls me and only me to go look up an invoice for her. I'm swamped with work and tell her so but she still is expecting me to put everything down so that I can do this task. I don't mind doing it every once an awhile but I'm the only one she goes to.
There is a reason why I tend to be an introvert in the office.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-12-19T14:55:18-05:00
@Geist, I'm sorry that they make you feel that way! I personally think that people are friendly to you, because you are awesome! Seriously, it can be hard to see from the first person perspective, but, you are easy to talk to, you are more than capable and you're reliable, so I wouldn't take it personally, they just don't trust anyone else to look after them like you do. As I said, pure awesomeness!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-12-19T14:58:08-05:00
GM, eek, that doesn't sound like fun. On the plus side, there's a Hot Fuzz quote for everything: https://www.youtube.com/watch…
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-12-19T14:59:13-05:00
Just say it like that every time you're the last to hear of something.
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On the very plus side, my Clearly Canadian finally arrived, right alongside my German Food Box (my christmas present to my family)! All that's left now is my Fidget Cube!
@Zem: Not sure what that video is, since YouTube is blocked at work, but one of my aunts, her attitude towards the cancer is she can't give up now because she hasn't pissed enough people off.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-12-19T16:49:21-05:00
"Nobody tells me nothin'."
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Haha, that's an interesting measure of success. You can't call it a day if you didn't boil someone's blood!
@BaKhan: Until you get inebriated enough that you're knocking down more of your tiles that the other players were. Especially since in the rules if you knock down a tile while removing others that are already down, it gets removed as well.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-12-20T11:09:55-05:00
@GM, exactly! Thats why it would be so fun, all the laughter at trying to actually hit the other guys bricks, and chaos of knocking your own stuff down at the same time! I could see this being a laugh riot, and also working well for when the little ones come around... ;)
Well, it is....for me. I have just been looking at the tracking, and it took 5 days to get from Scottsdale Arizona to Vancouver.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-12-20T12:40:01-05:00
... should I peek in? Every time I do, you guys leave, and at best, one response comes... Oh well, a bit late to be considering that now! ;)
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Wooo! Mannheim Steamroller today! Can't wait!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-12-20T12:45:00-05:00
Its my last day of work this week! Yippie! Freedom baby yeah!
*gives BaKhan the stink eye*
I'm stuck at work for the rest of the week and people are pushing stuff through at the last minute. Aren't these people suppose to be gone from the office enjoying Christmas or something like that?
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-12-20T12:50:26-05:00
Whoo, good thing I got out of college when I did, or else I'd have gotten a stink-eye too! Known to ruin days from up to 1500 yards away.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-12-20T12:53:17-05:00
@Geist, I hate that feeling, thats why I basically begged for the time off. This time of year, with the cold snap that we just had, everyone's heating systems breaking down, so many people needing repair parts, and losing their minds when we run out, or don't have them... yeah, this time of year is the worst, oh and for good measure throw in the holiday stress on top of all of that, combined with less money because of days off without pay... yep, I'm due, so... Stink eye right back attcha! ;)
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-12-20T13:11:41-05:00
Yeah, BaKhan, I've always felt sorry for the heating industry around the holidays, when people bring their families over to see the limits of their systems. That and plumbing on thanksgiving and the super bowl. Must be fun times all round! ;)
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-12-20T14:07:30-05:00
I'm bringing a flask to work next week if these people don't go away so that I can breathe.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-12-20T14:11:06-05:00
@Zem, yep, you got it. I find its always the time of year that people can least afford things to fail, that they do. Its a sub clause of Murphey's law I think... I normally design heating systems, which to me at least is much better, but when it gets busy like this, with only a three person department, everyone needs to pitch in on the phones. Which is the worst. In my design practice I have weeded out the lesser desirable customers, and pretty much only deal with professionals (thank god), when it comes to the phone I get everyone calling... arrggg!
Lord Zombitten 2016-12-20T17:52:21-05:00
Well, I can't take it anymore. Today was my last day of work until the new year. These treatments are just wearing me out too much. The bright side is that I'll be in here more often because I won't be busy at work.
Lord Zombitten 2016-12-20T17:58:14-05:00
Speaking of work, I feel really good about the things I've done over the last couple of weeks. We were thinking of switching to a different LIS (Lab Informatics System) because it appeared the new LIS had more options than our current LIS, meaning we'd be able to do more with it and automate some of our manual processes. The change would run us about $100k up front, plus the headache of switching systems and all the bugs that go along with that, and about $1300 in yearly maintenance fees. Well, I just learned that for about $2500, we can get our current LIS to do everything the new one has to offer, for half the yearly maintenance fees.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-12-21T00:26:04-05:00
Hooray, LZ returns! It's so weird with you not being here all the time competing with me unintentionally for top commenter, ;)
On the other hand of the coin, I might often be in here much less because I'm off with family.
Huh...you would think a package would go through customs clearance BEFORE it leave Vancouver airport(which is a major international hub in Canada), but it's just going through customs as of 1:30am today.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-12-21T11:00:10-05:00
Haha, that's weird. They decided to make it go faster, so they custom-ized it along the way. They had a customs professional on the truck checking them all off as they drove them to cut out a full step.
@LZ: Only if I can...I really don't want to be at work today and tomorrow(I do have Friday and Monday off...but then back to work for 4 days, then off for 3).
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-12-21T14:35:19-05:00
Afternoon kittens.
Howdy LZ. Good to see you still here with us. How are you holidays going so far?
Lord Zombitten 2016-12-21T15:48:00-05:00
So far, it doesn't feel like the holiday season. I haven't had the interest to do any of the traditional things
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-12-21T16:55:38-05:00
Chin up LZ. Sounds like the treatment is working and you'll be back to your old self in no time. I'm already looking forward to seeing you at Kitten Con 2 next year.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-12-22T01:36:52-05:00
Yeah, GM. Well, now it is. I spent a good chunk of the day making christmas snacks with my mom and brothers, and then my brothers and I went to Omaha to a really cool game-coffee-house place and played a few games there with some friends, most notably Settlers of Catan, which I tied for winning (due to time, we just looked at who had the most points). It was a pretty good day!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-12-22T12:08:43-05:00
@Geist: You're not the only one. People are going back on the rules they themselves set, causing me to do a rush check run today.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-12-22T13:20:36-05:00
@GM: with me I'm butting heads with the guy who is suppose to check my work before it gets approved for payment. He keeps finding all kinds of problems and I keep telling him I'm only typing in what people are submitting. If they are supposed to have certain codes and descriptions, then the whole thing needs to go back to them for correction but this guy doesn't want me to do that. He wants ME to do the corrections. That will slow us down and cause us to miss payment runs. Then people will get really angry.
When I present this scenario to him, he keeps saying "I don't know what to tell you". It's like talking to a brick wall.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-12-23T11:03:28-05:00
Morning kittens. Happy Holiday/Christmas Eve Eve.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-12-23T13:41:27-05:00
Merry Christmas! Eve! Eve!
Aw, dangit, you beat me to it! Oh well, it's still a holiday to me!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-12-24T10:25:46-05:00
Okay, NOW merry Christmas eve!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-12-25T01:18:41-05:00
Merry Christmas as well!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-12-25T10:43:46-05:00
Merry Christmas kittens!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-12-25T11:16:22-05:00
Merry Christmas! I hope none of you got a lump in your stockings this year.
For some odd reason I got a sack of it. Pretty sure this was meant for Donald Trump.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-12-25T11:26:27-05:00
Nope, Santa just skipped over us his year. Apparently my family decided to give him a rest from all the hassle of at least one house this year.
Nah, just kidding. We decided to give my brother some more sleep (his schedule is crazy. He works nights and was out won't have been in his bed from, I believe, Saturday morning to Monday morning, because he went with us to our grandparents, worked overnight, is here now for our christmas, and works tonight, then he can actually sleep tomorrow at 6 am) so we haven't opened presents yet.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-12-25T15:28:58-05:00
Though I've never understood why coal is a bad gift, especially from when most christmas traditions come from. Coal would have been a very practical gift!
Stopping by over here as well! Merry Christmas, Happy Hanakkuh!!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-12-26T19:20:42-05:00
Same to you Creeper!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-12-26T19:41:34-05:00
@Geist, GEIST!!! I just got home and there was a package waiting for me! Thank you so much! Looks like I've got a batch of MBB to make up! It really made my and Misty's day! Christmas is normally a down time for me, and this really made my day! Thank you so much! You are truly an amazing person! Big bear hugs from Canada!
I've been wanting to talk for awhile, but December kicked my booty. Hope you're all doing well.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-12-27T08:09:12-05:00
@BaKhan: I'm glad the package made it to you. It was only after I walked away from the counter that I realized I might not have put enough tape on the box, lol. Did Pumpkin like her hat and catnip? Can I haz a picture of her wearing it?
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-12-27T08:26:01-05:00
Also, I hope Misty liked the ornament. I packed it was well as I could so it wouldn't break. Thank you both for making my first trip outside the United States so much fun! I look forward to partying again next Halloween.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-12-27T08:31:13-05:00
@Creeper: I can imagine how busy the Christmas holiday is in New York. You'll probably be even more exhausted now that New Year celebrations are gearing up.
Up until a few hours ago, not bad. Back at the grind, with people asking questions for specifics about what's going on at the branches(because I apparently must have cameras EVERYWHERE in the company to see what happens in Texas).
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-12-27T12:12:00-05:00
@GM: You don't? ;-)
I think they asked you because your access to personal employee information would give you more insight than the regular person? That is the only answer I could come up with.
Lord Zombitten 2016-12-27T13:19:45-05:00
There is no Christmas Eve Eve. That's just silly. It's Christmas Adam!
Lord Zombitten 2016-12-27T13:20:24-05:00
Also, did you all hear about Carrie Fisher?
Terrible shame.
@LZ: I just saw that(while I was on hold with Wells Fargo). 2016 can just go away already.
Lord Zombitten 2016-12-27T13:31:05-05:00
I agree
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-12-27T13:32:32-05:00
@LZ: I did. I hope she pulls through. 2016 has taken too many talented folks.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-12-27T13:33:23-05:00
Wells Fargo? Bah! I'm surprised they are still in business after the fake accounts scandal that rocked them a few months ago. Why would anyone want to have an account there now?
Lord Zombitten 2016-12-27T13:41:34-05:00
Geist, I was asking if anyone had heard the news that she didn't pull through.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-12-27T13:48:40-05:00
What! She died?! I hadn't heard that. Damnit. I was really hoping that she would make it.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-12-27T14:04:45-05:00
*sigh* Confirmed. I think I will spend new years eve with my head under the covers. I've had enough of 2016.
Lord Zombitten 2016-12-27T14:53:55-05:00
Yep. 2016 is officially the worst year of the century
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-12-27T15:46:52-05:00
And just as I was about to hope 2016 had taken its (hopefully) last victim, my grandpa. First of any person close to me to die, making my 20 year perfect streak slam into a wall.
Cancer? Twice, nothing on him. Heart attacks? 2 or 3 and he's still puttering around. Pneumonia on top of side-effects from a drug he doesn't need anymore but was told to keep taking, an unknown virus, and residual effects from a brain injury? Finally caught up with him.
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Don't worry about me, I was okay, I don't have a problem with death really. But being stuck in a hospital room room with up to 15 other people and him for 9 1/2 hours after taking off his bipap as he gasps his way down slowly, watching as my grandma is tortured waiting as he finally takes his last gasp, struggles for a few moments, my aunt says she can't feel a pulse, her sister breaks down, my grandma can't take it, and even my dad who didn't cry at his only incredibly close best friend's funeral giving a eulogy start to tear up as my grandpa starts to look like a feral ghoul from Fallout 4? THAT might stick with me just a bit.
I tried to leave, but couldn't ever make it even with a perfect opportunity. Why does ANYONE want to be there for that?!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-12-27T15:51:07-05:00
Anyways, that's a bit of a graphic rant, but you may be able to relate well. As I mentioned, I'm not bad off at all, but I feel like I'm in that awkward stage when you're missing a tooth but don't remember it, and so your tongue bumps into the empty space and is really surprised for a second to remember something's missing.
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So if anyone's up to feeling really bad, here's a list of most of them, sans-Harambe. ;) http://people.com/celebrity/stars-we-lost-in-2016/prince-57 The one that really surprised me: Merle Haggard?! I forgot about that! I thought we were just beginning to think he and Mick Jagger and a few others had discovered immortality!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-12-28T08:24:09-05:00
Morning kittens
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-12-28T09:26:59-05:00
Morning kittens!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-12-28T09:29:18-05:00
@Geist, Misty and Pumpkin don't get back until tomorrow, but I'll make sure that we get some picks of her in her new hat and playing with the cat nip! ;) I sent Misty picks of all the stuff and she does really love the sugar skull (I even hung it on the Christmas tree!), I can't wait for her to see it in person as it is very spectacular! The best way I could describe it to her was, "It's totally legit!". Thanks again, so very much!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-12-28T09:36:18-05:00
@Zem, I'm sorry for your loss. Having been present for my fathers passing, I agree, I don't know why anyone would want to be there either. My father was in an induced coma, so I wasn't able to talk to him, other than to say, goodbye, and thanks for being my dad. I get that some people need to see thier loved one passed, in order to be able to accept it and move on, I'm definitely not one of those people. I say, better to remember them while they were alive and happy, those are the memories that you want to keep.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-12-28T09:37:10-05:00
Also, 2016 can suck it! I can't wait to put a nail in its coffin in three days! Your turn 2016, your turn to die!
@BaKhan: It most definitely can. Especially since once it's done and buried, I won't be running a payroll EVERY week, it will be every second week like it should be.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-12-28T14:32:54-05:00
Wow. Why was 2016 almost universally such a bad year?! Though who's to say 2017 will be that much better?
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-12-28T15:52:18-05:00
@Zem, me okay? I'm saying that 2017 will be that much better! You hear me 2017?!!!!
Someone just kill this year....and change the higher ups minds to make it so there isn't so much crap going on in the spreadsheet I use to load the hours, which caused 5 people to not have 1 week of their hours be loaded.
Lord Zombitten 2016-12-28T18:22:05-05:00
What the Hell, 2016?!
First (but not really) Carrie Fisher, and now Debbie Reynolds (probably)? Give that family a break!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-12-28T22:20:15-05:00
Dang, BaKhan, way to up the expectations! 2017 is going to end up a drunk with that much weight on its shoulders, trying to get rid of all that stress! I say 2017 should just lay back and take it easy, no expectations, just a nice break.
One can hope.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-12-28T22:25:43-05:00
No kidding, LZ. Probably from the stress and shock of Carrie going so suddenly. But now for something I've been wondering for a couple years now; what about Star Wars? How are they going to explain her absence, especially so suddenly? They got rid of Han Solo because Ford really should have died years ago and might at any minute, I'm sure that's why, it's what I'd do. Plus, he probably didn't want to worry about the movies too much anymore. But Carrie is still in it last we saw. Dump a bucket of blood on her? (get it? sorry, couldn't resist.;)
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Now we need to just make a safeguard around Betty White. Seriously, if 2016 is rounding up for a big hurrah, she'd be the big climax of the deaths. Anyone have Death's number? We need to make a deal.
Lord Zombitten 2016-12-29T01:39:14-05:00
They killed Han because that was one of Ford's conditions for returning to the role. Carrie Fisher had finished all of her filming for Episode VIII. The big question is how they'll handle IX, assuming Leia was supposed to be in that one. But, look at what they did for Leia and Grand Moff Tarkin in Rogue One...
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-12-29T08:17:36-05:00
Yeah, I was kind of hoping they'd just leave Leia out, but sure, they just had to throw her in for a second. Oh well, it was a great movie! And Vader has the best one-liner of all the Star Wars movies!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-12-29T09:11:36-05:00
Good Morning Kittens!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-12-29T09:14:44-05:00
@Zem, I'm serious, if 2017 knows whats good for it, it'll play ball. I'm done taking sh*t, and I'm sure everyone else is too! Although, tbh, I am expecting it to be a hard year, especially for my wifes family. I really hope not but, her grandparents (who are amazing) are turning 90 next year, and that is always a pretty big question mark. I have to hope for the best though, living in fear is something I refuse to do! ;)
@Geist: My dad, when I talked to him after dropping my grandma off after dinner, said that they had only learned about it earlier in the week. And there were many opportunities to mention it, like dinner on Saturday when we were all together(well, everyone that lives in the one house). But I've come to accept I'm 99.9999~% of the time the last to learn about anything.
@GM, I don't know if its the case or not, but I would chalk it up to your parents trying to protect you from the bad news. No matter how old you get, you will still be their "baby", I don't think you can blame them for that one bro! ;)
Normally, yes, but my dad told me there just hadn't been time to bring it up.
Don't you just love it when people come to your desk and interrupt you like their wants go above everyone else?
@Geist, thats my favourite part of the job! I deal with many "special" people everyday... >.>
@Geist: All last week for me. While running the large payroll that requires the most attention. Interrupted with "urgent" stuff that was known about(by the people who needed it) a few weeks in advance, but come to me with hours notice or them going into the meeting it's needed for.
@GM & BaKhan: Sometimes I think people only are friendly to me because they expect me to put them first whenever they come calling. One woman I've been going to lunch with is on vacation but calls me and only me to go look up an invoice for her. I'm swamped with work and tell her so but she still is expecting me to put everything down so that I can do this task. I don't mind doing it every once an awhile but I'm the only one she goes to.
There is a reason why I tend to be an introvert in the office.
@Geist, I'm sorry that they make you feel that way! I personally think that people are friendly to you, because you are awesome! Seriously, it can be hard to see from the first person perspective, but, you are easy to talk to, you are more than capable and you're reliable, so I wouldn't take it personally, they just don't trust anyone else to look after them like you do. As I said, pure awesomeness!
GM, eek, that doesn't sound like fun. On the plus side, there's a Hot Fuzz quote for everything: https://www.youtube.com/watch…
Just say it like that every time you're the last to hear of something.
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On the very plus side, my Clearly Canadian finally arrived, right alongside my German Food Box (my christmas present to my family)! All that's left now is my Fidget Cube!
@Zem: Not sure what that video is, since YouTube is blocked at work, but one of my aunts, her attitude towards the cancer is she can't give up now because she hasn't pissed enough people off.
"Nobody tells me nothin'."
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Haha, that's an interesting measure of success. You can't call it a day if you didn't boil someone's blood!
So, War and Pieces just got delivered to my house(less than 20min ago)
Morning kittens.
Good Morning Kittens!
Its my last day of work this week! Yippie! Freedom baby yeah!
@GM, congrats! I haven't gotten mine yet, is it awesome? I was looking for something childish and fun, I think its going to fit the bill!
Morning kittens.
@BaKhan: I haven't looked at it too closely, but it looks well made. Definitely will be playing it sometime soon.
@GM, I think it would make for an awesome "drinking" game! So many options, but I think the more inebriated you are, the more fun it will be! ;)
@BaKhan: Until you get inebriated enough that you're knocking down more of your tiles that the other players were. Especially since in the rules if you knock down a tile while removing others that are already down, it gets removed as well.
@GM, exactly! Thats why it would be so fun, all the laughter at trying to actually hit the other guys bricks, and chaos of knocking your own stuff down at the same time! I could see this being a laugh riot, and also working well for when the little ones come around... ;)
That's part of the reason I backed it. Because of the little ones, it's actually a good game for them to enjoy.
How long does it take something to get from Vancouver to Calgary? It left the airport in Vancouver, just after 8:30am on Saturday.
@GM, who is the carrier? Canada post, would probably take at least a week... >.>
USPS.
@GM, yep, thats Canada Post as soon as it crosses the boarder. I hope its not a Christmas present...
Well, it is....for me. I have just been looking at the tracking, and it took 5 days to get from Scottsdale Arizona to Vancouver.
... should I peek in? Every time I do, you guys leave, and at best, one response comes... Oh well, a bit late to be considering that now! ;)
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Wooo! Mannheim Steamroller today! Can't wait!
Its my last day of work this week! Yippie! Freedom baby yeah!
*gives BaKhan the stink eye*
I'm stuck at work for the rest of the week and people are pushing stuff through at the last minute. Aren't these people suppose to be gone from the office enjoying Christmas or something like that?
Whoo, good thing I got out of college when I did, or else I'd have gotten a stink-eye too! Known to ruin days from up to 1500 yards away.
@Geist, I hate that feeling, thats why I basically begged for the time off. This time of year, with the cold snap that we just had, everyone's heating systems breaking down, so many people needing repair parts, and losing their minds when we run out, or don't have them... yeah, this time of year is the worst, oh and for good measure throw in the holiday stress on top of all of that, combined with less money because of days off without pay... yep, I'm due, so... Stink eye right back attcha! ;)
Yeah, BaKhan, I've always felt sorry for the heating industry around the holidays, when people bring their families over to see the limits of their systems. That and plumbing on thanksgiving and the super bowl. Must be fun times all round! ;)
I'm bringing a flask to work next week if these people don't go away so that I can breathe.
@Zem, yep, you got it. I find its always the time of year that people can least afford things to fail, that they do. Its a sub clause of Murphey's law I think... I normally design heating systems, which to me at least is much better, but when it gets busy like this, with only a three person department, everyone needs to pitch in on the phones. Which is the worst. In my design practice I have weeded out the lesser desirable customers, and pretty much only deal with professionals (thank god), when it comes to the phone I get everyone calling... arrggg!
Well, I can't take it anymore. Today was my last day of work until the new year. These treatments are just wearing me out too much. The bright side is that I'll be in here more often because I won't be busy at work.
Speaking of work, I feel really good about the things I've done over the last couple of weeks. We were thinking of switching to a different LIS (Lab Informatics System) because it appeared the new LIS had more options than our current LIS, meaning we'd be able to do more with it and automate some of our manual processes. The change would run us about $100k up front, plus the headache of switching systems and all the bugs that go along with that, and about $1300 in yearly maintenance fees. Well, I just learned that for about $2500, we can get our current LIS to do everything the new one has to offer, for half the yearly maintenance fees.
Hooray, LZ returns! It's so weird with you not being here all the time competing with me unintentionally for top commenter, ;)
On the other hand of the coin, I might often be in here much less because I'm off with family.
Huh...you would think a package would go through customs clearance BEFORE it leave Vancouver airport(which is a major international hub in Canada), but it's just going through customs as of 1:30am today.
Haha, that's weird. They decided to make it go faster, so they custom-ized it along the way. They had a customs professional on the truck checking them all off as they drove them to cut out a full step.
Now that I'm awake, can I go back to sleep?
@LZ: Only if I can...I really don't want to be at work today and tomorrow(I do have Friday and Monday off...but then back to work for 4 days, then off for 3).
Afternoon kittens.
Howdy LZ. Good to see you still here with us. How are you holidays going so far?
So far, it doesn't feel like the holiday season. I haven't had the interest to do any of the traditional things
Chin up LZ. Sounds like the treatment is working and you'll be back to your old self in no time. I'm already looking forward to seeing you at Kitten Con 2 next year.
Sounds like a plan!
Is the day over yet?
Yeah, GM. Well, now it is. I spent a good chunk of the day making christmas snacks with my mom and brothers, and then my brothers and I went to Omaha to a really cool game-coffee-house place and played a few games there with some friends, most notably Settlers of Catan, which I tied for winning (due to time, we just looked at who had the most points). It was a pretty good day!
*sigh* I want this week over with already.
@Geist: You're not the only one. People are going back on the rules they themselves set, causing me to do a rush check run today.
@GM: with me I'm butting heads with the guy who is suppose to check my work before it gets approved for payment. He keeps finding all kinds of problems and I keep telling him I'm only typing in what people are submitting. If they are supposed to have certain codes and descriptions, then the whole thing needs to go back to them for correction but this guy doesn't want me to do that. He wants ME to do the corrections. That will slow us down and cause us to miss payment runs. Then people will get really angry.
When I present this scenario to him, he keeps saying "I don't know what to tell you". It's like talking to a brick wall.
Morning kittens. Happy Holiday/Christmas Eve Eve.
Merry Christmas! Eve! Eve!
Aw, dangit, you beat me to it! Oh well, it's still a holiday to me!
Okay, NOW merry Christmas eve!
Merry Christmas as well!
Merry Christmas kittens!
Merry Christmas! I hope none of you got a lump in your stockings this year.
For some odd reason I got a sack of it. Pretty sure this was meant for Donald Trump.
Nope, Santa just skipped over us his year. Apparently my family decided to give him a rest from all the hassle of at least one house this year.
Nah, just kidding. We decided to give my brother some more sleep (his schedule is crazy. He works nights and was out won't have been in his bed from, I believe, Saturday morning to Monday morning, because he went with us to our grandparents, worked overnight, is here now for our christmas, and works tonight, then he can actually sleep tomorrow at 6 am) so we haven't opened presents yet.
Though I've never understood why coal is a bad gift, especially from when most christmas traditions come from. Coal would have been a very practical gift!
Stopping by over here as well! Merry Christmas, Happy Hanakkuh!!
Same to you Creeper!
@Geist, GEIST!!! I just got home and there was a package waiting for me! Thank you so much! Looks like I've got a batch of MBB to make up! It really made my and Misty's day! Christmas is normally a down time for me, and this really made my day! Thank you so much! You are truly an amazing person! Big bear hugs from Canada!
How have you guys been??
I've been wanting to talk for awhile, but December kicked my booty. Hope you're all doing well.
@BaKhan: I'm glad the package made it to you. It was only after I walked away from the counter that I realized I might not have put enough tape on the box, lol. Did Pumpkin like her hat and catnip? Can I haz a picture of her wearing it?
Also, I hope Misty liked the ornament. I packed it was well as I could so it wouldn't break. Thank you both for making my first trip outside the United States so much fun! I look forward to partying again next Halloween.
@Creeper: I can imagine how busy the Christmas holiday is in New York. You'll probably be even more exhausted now that New Year celebrations are gearing up.
Hi Kittens.
Merry late Christmas.
Howdy GM. How was your holiday?
Up until a few hours ago, not bad. Back at the grind, with people asking questions for specifics about what's going on at the branches(because I apparently must have cameras EVERYWHERE in the company to see what happens in Texas).
@GM: You don't? ;-)
I think they asked you because your access to personal employee information would give you more insight than the regular person? That is the only answer I could come up with.
There is no Christmas Eve Eve. That's just silly. It's Christmas Adam!
Also, did you all hear about Carrie Fisher?
Terrible shame.
@LZ: I just saw that(while I was on hold with Wells Fargo). 2016 can just go away already.
I agree
@LZ: I did. I hope she pulls through. 2016 has taken too many talented folks.
Wells Fargo? Bah! I'm surprised they are still in business after the fake accounts scandal that rocked them a few months ago. Why would anyone want to have an account there now?
Geist, I was asking if anyone had heard the news that she didn't pull through.
What! She died?! I hadn't heard that. Damnit. I was really hoping that she would make it.
*sigh* Confirmed. I think I will spend new years eve with my head under the covers. I've had enough of 2016.
Yep. 2016 is officially the worst year of the century
And just as I was about to hope 2016 had taken its (hopefully) last victim, my grandpa. First of any person close to me to die, making my 20 year perfect streak slam into a wall.
Cancer? Twice, nothing on him. Heart attacks? 2 or 3 and he's still puttering around. Pneumonia on top of side-effects from a drug he doesn't need anymore but was told to keep taking, an unknown virus, and residual effects from a brain injury? Finally caught up with him.
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Don't worry about me, I was okay, I don't have a problem with death really. But being stuck in a hospital room room with up to 15 other people and him for 9 1/2 hours after taking off his bipap as he gasps his way down slowly, watching as my grandma is tortured waiting as he finally takes his last gasp, struggles for a few moments, my aunt says she can't feel a pulse, her sister breaks down, my grandma can't take it, and even my dad who didn't cry at his only incredibly close best friend's funeral giving a eulogy start to tear up as my grandpa starts to look like a feral ghoul from Fallout 4? THAT might stick with me just a bit.
I tried to leave, but couldn't ever make it even with a perfect opportunity. Why does ANYONE want to be there for that?!
Anyways, that's a bit of a graphic rant, but you may be able to relate well. As I mentioned, I'm not bad off at all, but I feel like I'm in that awkward stage when you're missing a tooth but don't remember it, and so your tongue bumps into the empty space and is really surprised for a second to remember something's missing.
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So if anyone's up to feeling really bad, here's a list of most of them, sans-Harambe. ;) http://people.com/celebrity/stars-we-lost-in-2016/prince-57
The one that really surprised me: Merle Haggard?! I forgot about that! I thought we were just beginning to think he and Mick Jagger and a few others had discovered immortality!
Morning kittens
Morning kittens!
@Geist, Misty and Pumpkin don't get back until tomorrow, but I'll make sure that we get some picks of her in her new hat and playing with the cat nip! ;) I sent Misty picks of all the stuff and she does really love the sugar skull (I even hung it on the Christmas tree!), I can't wait for her to see it in person as it is very spectacular! The best way I could describe it to her was, "It's totally legit!". Thanks again, so very much!
@Zem, I'm sorry for your loss. Having been present for my fathers passing, I agree, I don't know why anyone would want to be there either. My father was in an induced coma, so I wasn't able to talk to him, other than to say, goodbye, and thanks for being my dad. I get that some people need to see thier loved one passed, in order to be able to accept it and move on, I'm definitely not one of those people. I say, better to remember them while they were alive and happy, those are the memories that you want to keep.
Also, 2016 can suck it! I can't wait to put a nail in its coffin in three days! Your turn 2016, your turn to die!
Morning kittens.
@BaKhan: It most definitely can. Especially since once it's done and buried, I won't be running a payroll EVERY week, it will be every second week like it should be.
Wow. Why was 2016 almost universally such a bad year?! Though who's to say 2017 will be that much better?
@Zem, me okay? I'm saying that 2017 will be that much better! You hear me 2017?!!!!
Someone just kill this year....and change the higher ups minds to make it so there isn't so much crap going on in the spreadsheet I use to load the hours, which caused 5 people to not have 1 week of their hours be loaded.
What the Hell, 2016?!
First (but not really) Carrie Fisher, and now Debbie Reynolds (probably)? Give that family a break!
Dang, BaKhan, way to up the expectations! 2017 is going to end up a drunk with that much weight on its shoulders, trying to get rid of all that stress! I say 2017 should just lay back and take it easy, no expectations, just a nice break.
One can hope.
No kidding, LZ. Probably from the stress and shock of Carrie going so suddenly. But now for something I've been wondering for a couple years now; what about Star Wars? How are they going to explain her absence, especially so suddenly? They got rid of Han Solo because Ford really should have died years ago and might at any minute, I'm sure that's why, it's what I'd do. Plus, he probably didn't want to worry about the movies too much anymore. But Carrie is still in it last we saw. Dump a bucket of blood on her? (get it? sorry, couldn't resist.;)
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Now we need to just make a safeguard around Betty White. Seriously, if 2016 is rounding up for a big hurrah, she'd be the big climax of the deaths. Anyone have Death's number? We need to make a deal.
They killed Han because that was one of Ford's conditions for returning to the role. Carrie Fisher had finished all of her filming for Episode VIII. The big question is how they'll handle IX, assuming Leia was supposed to be in that one. But, look at what they did for Leia and Grand Moff Tarkin in Rogue One...
Yeah, I was kind of hoping they'd just leave Leia out, but sure, they just had to throw her in for a second. Oh well, it was a great movie! And Vader has the best one-liner of all the Star Wars movies!
Good Morning Kittens!
@Zem, I'm serious, if 2017 knows whats good for it, it'll play ball. I'm done taking sh*t, and I'm sure everyone else is too! Although, tbh, I am expecting it to be a hard year, especially for my wifes family. I really hope not but, her grandparents (who are amazing) are turning 90 next year, and that is always a pretty big question mark. I have to hope for the best though, living in fear is something I refuse to do! ;)
Morning kittens.
And now 2016 has taken LaVell Edwards.