What do you mean, all the papa Murphy’s have closed in Tennessee?!?

Listening to broadcast political ads in Tennessee and I gotta say: based on sheer ad spend? I think the republicans here are a little worried.

Saturday morning sandwiches!

Based on how good this banana tastes, I probably need more potassium.

That’s right, kids! It’s time for the Daughter Do List!

Hurricane cloud bands, from the air.

“I wasn’t consulted on this change.” What I wanted to say in response: no shit, because your opinion doesn’t matter. What I did say: “I spoke to X and Y, and the downstream operators, and they aren’t confused.”

We work at a <500 person company. “Not my job” isn’t going to be rewarded, and I’m going to make this guy regret committing that to paper.

Who has two thumbs and tickets to Club Drosselmeyer? ME! I highly recommend this if you’re in the Boston area and you like dressing up and doing puzzles to amazing music and fun drinks and a great story! www.clubdrosselmeyer.com/tickets

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Our cybersecurity training today was blocked by our cybersecurity policies.

42F overnight and the main house is at 62F: we are officially playing “heat chicken”, where we wait as long as possible before lighting the furnace for the winter.

I am sad, because I just sat with one of our star techs and helped her with her resume and job hunt, because I can’t recommend working here anymore.

Reason number nineteen to support democracy with @romancingthevote.com : getting a giant D20 in the mail with phallic inclusions from @dragonsworn.net.

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First stock transfer finally worked, after the fourth time. There’s an ampersand in our joint account, and that’s what was causing the issue.

Jill@yesthatjill.bsky.social · last mo.

Guess I’ll spend the weekend catching up on all the personal business things I’ve not done. (Stock transfers, reimbursements, fsa status, emails, bills.)

My opinion on the Essar mill they’ve announced.

Jill@yesthatjill.bsky.social · 2w ago

I was a steel metallurgist in a previous career. I’ve seen what it takes to stand up an arc furnace mini mill, and Essar’s going to try to do a fully integrated Dirt to Strip? In Iowa? I’ll be surprised if there are more than 150 jobs created by 2030.

Did someone say tinplate? Yay!

spookygrouchy@cpgrouchy.bsky.social · 2w ago

Yeah bean cans are some sort of tinplate steel. @yesthatjill.bsky.social can tell you in a lot more detail, but I don't think aluminum tariffs will be driving up the cost of canned beans in particular, not like soda or seltzer

We’ve been invited to an engagement shower (and quasi-reception, as the wedding proper is v. small), but it’s the weekend between Thanksgiving and our trip to Boston for Drosselmeyer. Can I handle three straight weekends of traveling?

Fly and Covid vaccinations complete!

Is it really a Saturday morning if your husband hasn’t sighed deeply and reminded you not to do too many illegal things?

Power’s out and, other than the one smoke alarm beeping, I’m kinda enjoying it.

This server struck again this morning and it got shut off completely. Too bad!

Jill@yesthatjill.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A user has needed to do X since November. They have not done the work, nor even logged in to figure out the issue. There was a deadline for 1 May; it was extended four times and is now Friday. I told this user that their access to X expires Friday and copied our boss.

This team is currently running a Kickstarter for the (lighter in theme / less scary) Doomensions pop-up escape in a box. We played the first one and I really enjoyed it. www.kickstarter.com/projects/mys...

Doomensions Returns

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Jill@yesthatjill.bsky.social · 9mo ago

My husband and I (and our Force Multiplier, @juliegranite.bsky.social) do escape rooms for fun. I gave him Mysterious Package’s HAStUr (mysteriouspackage.com/collections/...) for Christmas and I’ve spent the last five hours with goosebumps on my arms and a creepy statue on my dining room table.

Today, I had to explain to Iron Filings that I could not put a check before (operation) that uses the date and time that the operation is completed as part of the calculation for the check.

Knitting at a ball game, as I do. This time it’s a double whammy, since it’s a work social outing that I am absolutely introverting through.

Why have both of my work computers decided that copy and paste are too hard to do?

I’m annoyed that because I had to provide contact details for a conference I’m attending, between that and my new title, my work phones are now subject to a lot of cold sales calls. I am not handling it well.

Our VP response to being locked out of their computer (“why does this rule apply to me?”) is reaffirming my prior poor experiences with them.

I bring value to our relationship.

… I had thought my “I don’t want to work here anymore” was bad in the first quarter and it’s just getting worse.