Good Things Friday (186) and Link Love
September 16, 2022
1. I’ve made a little more progress in setting up our household computer in case my work computer bites the dust. I was fighting with our password keeper, though, that’s still not working quite the way it should. Once that’s settled, I will do a work day on that computer to make sure it’s an adequate substitute.
2. I made JB’s Christmas present!!! It needs just a little more work to secure the fraying fabric but I finally powered through my hesitation and self doubt and made them a pair of packing cubes. It would have been cheaper (time wise) to just buy them a pair of $10 packing cubes but these are made with that Hello Kitty fabric I couldn’t resist so I believe this is called making the most of what you have 😬😁
This settles two things for my holiday anxiety brain: they will now have packing cubes to use for annual travel and I’ll be done with their present once all the bits are tidied up. Now I have to get going on the last remaining gifts. I’m also tempted to make myself a new cube too.
3. We’ve come up negative on our weekly COVID tests.
4. Even only three days a week, and even with how hard the transition has been, daycare has been such a huge help. We can get more work done, reducing that frantic hamster in a wheel feeling we get every single day, and I can even cook dinners some nights of the week instead of just hoping we can throw something together from the pantry. Five days a week would probably feel like a miracle but I’m not yet prepared to pay $2600 a month for that. 😓
‘Snough makes the best things. Behold, the don key!
The Post-Travel Malaise Day. I can’t tell if I travel poorly now more because of my health or my age but either way, the physical and mental recovery from traveling these days requires 2-3 days. Yuck.
I stood up to a sexist coworker who wanted me to take all the notes for a team I’m not even on. I want to fistbump this LW. Fuck THAT GUY. I’m the most senior woman in management and I tried to imagine anyone in my company being rash enough to try this with me. We have a good bunch because I can’t think of one who would have the audacity. We had several of these guys at my last companies and they were ludicrous. I didn’t mind scaring the crap out of them and their giving me a wide berth at all. Cretins.
I can’t escape Halloween Town. Wow this LW is really missing how bad a fit they are for this job. I don’t like Halloween but I do some stuff for it because JB does. I wouldn’t ever work year round in a Halloween business though! It’d be a bad fit! I do think a bat box outdoors would be cool though.
Another reason to hate this country that hates us so much: Iowa teen who killed rapist sentenced, ordered to pay $150K. How the hell does anyone say someone who was abused and sex trafficked doesn’t have the right to defend themselves at whatever time they need to do so?
New York declares state of emergency over polio to boost low vaccination rates
Why It Took Decades for LGBTQ Stories to Be Included in Holocaust History
What were they meeting about? pic.twitter.com/amMOc1E9w3
— Bunsen and BEAKER (@bunsenbernerbmd) September 5, 2022
Since the Queen died I’ve been enjoying all the jokes and memes but I’ve been sternly reminded this is wrong – we are supposed to be respectful and sad, apparently. So I figured we can all do some serious reflecting and learning. Here are some great threads:
— Hansi Munasinghe, PhD (@hansimunasinghe) September 11, 2022
