I got a roomba today. The kitten doesn’t want to ride it.
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I love watching kittens (and any animal really) riding roombas.
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When I had Lil Pup outside, a guy ROARED by on one of the loudest motorcycles I’ve ever heard. It sent her into a full blown panic for a few seconds. Then she was shaking after. I heavily fantasized about chasing him down and being very violent. So, so rude.
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Noooooo poor Lil Pup 
What an inconsiderate mumblemumblemumble
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I just dealt with the most annoying vendor ever.
Cliff notes:
- A local business pays a 3rd party company to put something in our library as a lease.
It’s a useful thing that has their logo on it so it’s a combo community service/advertising thing for business. - The lease is up for renewal
- Business calls me and says they are debating renewing
- I say cool, we like the thing, but understand if they want to focus their efforts elsewhere for a while. Also I have no idea how much their lease costs.
- Business says they will let me know if they decide to continue
- 3rd party company shows up, asks me to sign this thank you card to business for renewing the lease
- I say that last I heard business was still debating. Did business make a decision?
- 3rd party can’t reveal that. Just sign this card telling them thanks.
- I say I’d like to confirm with business first. Seems wrong to send a thank you for something they haven’t committed to do yet and business was going to let me know when they decided.
- 3rd party leaves
- 3rd party calls me 5 minutes later saying we seem really ungrateful and they are going to come back on Tuesday and take the thing back
Me: WTF???
My interpretation is that business was still debating and 3rd party wanted me to write them a note to kind of pressure them into renewing.
I want to maintain a good relationship with business, but 3rd party can go screw themselves.
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Considering murdering a coworker. Usually I don’t mind working with him, although I know he tends to rub some other coworkers the wrong way, but he’s turned my last three(!!!) presentations into him-explainy-sessions to the point where I haven’t even gotten through my material. I’ve told him to let me talk, managers have told him to let me talk, and yet every damn time ‘well, I just want to explain XYZ’ (he’s fairly senior and for some reason is under the impression that no one else could possibly understand XYZ anywhere near as well as him, and never mind that XYZ is damn near everything on the project as far as he’s concerned). Fourth session is Monday. We’ll see if an ambulance needs to be called.
Coworker, no one wants (or needs) your explanation.
Literally, no one.
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Can you enforce “comments and questions are to be saved for the end”? Otherwise I’d do something like bring a box of popcorn and eat it every time he interrupts…
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I will help you hide the body…
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It’s Friday night which means it’s both the tiredest I will likely be all week and the night my friends wanna hang out. I just want to go to bed.
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Oh, I remember this feeling! I backed out of so many social engagements on Fridays when I was working. Just too spent from the week.
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I also backed out of a Friday night thing with a friend and am wracked with guilt.
Popcorn sounds pretty good (and for everyone if I could find a way to swing it) –unforutnately these are planning sessions where discussion is important since we’re trying to decide on technical direction and most of what I’m presenting are options and recommendations looking for holes. Unfortunately he is senior and is a smart guy and does occasionally come up with points that matter (one of the reasons I generally don’t mind working with him) but right now his good points are ridiculously low in proportion to the amount of time he’s wasting with his needless explainery.
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Can’t find a shovel emoji, but appreciate the support.
I can’t find my drill, my screwdriver, and my stud finder. Earlier in the week I put them in a bag and put them… somewhere? Apparently not anywhere obvious, and I need them. Were they stolen? Am I losing my mind? I really need them to show up again please.
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Did you leave them at the rental? Or in the car where they could be mistaken for reusable shopping bags and acquired?
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I have checked both places repeatedly. Also the obvious spots at my house
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Buy buy baby didn’t have the crib mattress we want in stock. They wanted to charge us a $10 fee to restock it, even if they shipped it to their own store. This pissed me off in principal. Also made the math work out so that registry completion on amazon plus our rewards card is a better deal, so we left without buying it. 
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It is cold. Or at least chilly, and parts of me have outgrown all coats in my immediate family. The worst part is that I already did shopping yesterday and today, and now I’m going to have to do shopping again tomorrow or else freeze.
And pilot isn’t home yet so I can’t try his coats on and then make off with them.
Does anyone know any portly men in my city with impressive beer bellies who wouldn’t notice some fall and winter coats disappearing? Not too tall or else short coats preferred, as a family friend of considerable height did donate one to the cause, and I almost did a somersault trying to get into it. (this disqualified it)
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Other tiny complaint. A relative wants another baby so so much but other relative says no. And baby wanting relative isn’t a jerk so doesn’t get a baby.
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I support you wearing a sleeping bag for the next 20 weeks.