Entire Week: Fired

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Here's the tally so far, with semicolons:

- One coworker's family member killed in a motorcycle accident; services are this weekend, so I have offered to cover being on-call for someone else on the team, who knew them better and wants to attend
- Dad's back in the hospital for adverse conditions after his back surgery last week; he's in pain and understandably concerned (discomfort from either a reaction to the pain management drugs, or something else, so he's in for observation and new pain management stuff)
- Kim's machine wiped an entire partition and puked out its ability to grok TCP/IP; currently reinstalling Vista after replacing the NIC and backing up to a restore point. Current suspects for the heinous fuckery are Rhapsody and Norton.
- One buddy getting jerked around by various sanctioning bodies in the midst of an arduous job search
- One buddy getting jerked around by his ex and the financial markets
- THE ENTIRE GOVERNMENT BEING MADE OF FUCKSTICKS; can't leave that out, though it's not confined to this week

When the high point of one's day is getting a line on government paperwork....

Oh, one other good thing this week, other than the usual enjoyable conversations with the usual suspects; I believe I've made the best pot of coffee, ever.

Equal parts Christopher Bean "White Christmas" and Coffee Shop of Horrors "Graveyard Shift."


.... and, in the process of composing this, I actually got one of those bot-generated Coho/Salmon IMs; this is the first one that actually makes the first bit of sense, and is even realistic.

[07:01] DressedUpCoho: Listen, asshat, I just caught my son reading your blog and I'm fucking pissed off.

Bravo, DUC, for being the first of these I'd have actually replied to had I not known any better.

Real Fish of Genius...... Faux-outraged swimming upstream to mate and die guyyyyyyyyyyy!

Comments

[auroara.livejournal.com]

I miss coffee. I have a coffee maker and lovely flavored coffee, but I have about 6 inches of counter space due to a really low cabinet. *ARGH!*

Going to go cry into my tea now.

[theonebob.livejournal.com]

I hope your Dad feels better.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

So do I, and so does he.

I hope the suck starts to dissipate all around, but today is not off to an auspicious start.

[firefly-pilot.livejournal.com]

Ouch. Sorry to hear about the many facets of yuck. :(

First I've heard of Coho/Salmon. I think it's kinda interesting that it purports to be from an outraged parent, who (I take the liberty of assuming) is upset about your language... phrased in that particular way.