"Hey JT, remember what I was saying about the new position? Well, turns out I was under the influence of prescription crack cocaine. What I really meant is that the new position is an extension of the old one."....
not my problem anymore!
What made me happy today?
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"Hey, so, the intern you hired who has been with you for the entirety of your role has submitted his letter of resignation.... so now we have a hole in scheduling that we need to cover while the new you hires for a new intern"
I guess this still belongs here.... I'm happy my intern has gotten a full time position elsewhere?
but at the same time, GRRRRR!!! Now i have to cover desk shifts!
"Hey, so, the intern you hired who has been with you for the entirety of your role has submitted his letter of resignation.... so now we have a hole in scheduling that we need to cover while the new you hires for a new intern"
I guess this still belongs here.... I'm happy my intern has gotten a full time position elsewhere?
but at the same time, GRRRRR!!! Now i have to cover desk shifts!
I never knowingly resigned a job in my entire life. (Sorry, I tell a lie: I quit a temporary contract once because the manager was an awful POS who verbally abused us temps and called us idiots if we made typos.
How did he know we made typos? Because he stood behind our backs while we were typing and watching us type.
Say, manager, don't you have something else to do? Like, I don't know -- MANAGE?!
Grumble. Sorry. This was in the late 90s and I still remember).The good news was that I also got another temp-to-perm while working at that shitty job, so I walked out the door and never looked back. In your face, so-called "manager"! *blows a raspberry*
Welcome to the wonderful world of upper management. The bad news is that it never gets better. The good news is you will care less as time passes.
After reading all that, I am glad I'm retired.
Homer is still attempting to fill the position Homer#2 vacated 4 years ago. Homer#2 is still attempting to fill the position Homer#3 vacated two years before that. And now, to add even more absurdity, Homer 2.0 (a concurrent version of my present self and future self) is attempting to replace current Homer, which I still am in my corporeal existence.
Got all that? One future Homer to perform the duties of one current Homer and two past Homers. It's like a Star Trek episode where different space time continuum characters are bumping into each other on the Enterprise.
Hey moose, we know we didnt give you the promo, but if you could do half the work so the less capable person we hired instead of you can cope it'd be appreciated...what do you mean 'suck my plums' ? 
I get it. I really do. Full disclosure: in the last 15 years, I have officially retired from four wildly diverse jobs, three of which I was juggling at any given time. I retired from dance alone at least four times before my body sealed the final deal. Now I'm down to writing and a greatly reduced teaching load. Occasionally it feels like a damn vacation. Not this week, though it still beats the holy hell out of turning up at a law office five days a week.
Agent emailed. 923 physical copies of The Song of the Blue Bottle Tree sold last week. Doesn't count audiobooks. Best week yet. 
I try to suppress schadenfreude. Sometimes I succeed, yesterday I did not.
The global accounting firm, Deloitte, is losing a bunch of money in Australia.
The Australian federal government hired Deloitte to produce a report certifying the legality, precision, efficiency, and general wonderfulness of certain Australian government operations. I think the fees were around a half million.
Deloitte proudly delivered the report and initially defended it when nonbelievers pointed out a few flaws. The footnotes didn't make sense. One of the sources for the report was a lofty tome that unfortunately doesn't actually exist. Legal citations were either inappropriate or whole cloth fiction. A quote from an Australian federal judge gave great credence to the report as long as you overlook the fact the judge didn't actually say what the Deloitte report claimed.
In other words, it was artificial intelligence pulling artificial facts out of its artificial rectum. How charming.
Two months ago, Deloitte released a YouTube video bragging about their work with AI, saying that before AI their processes were an impediment to achieving their ambitions (Deloitte's word).
Enter AI.
It's all mildly hilarious until you consider another fact, which makes the shameful tale extremely hilarious.
The government function the report analyzed favorably was an automated welfare violations system.
Deloitte's AI, in what could be the world's first case of cross platform artificial conspiracy, praised Australia's AI.
I hope I never have to give a briefing at work about Deloitte's various scandals.
The company's full name is Deloitte and Touche. I can't help it. My spooneristic snark reflex kicks in and all I see is Toilet and Douche.
The global accounting firm, Deloitte, is losing a bunch of money in Australia.
The Australian federal government hired Deloitte to produce a report certifying the legality, precision, efficiency, and general wonderfulness of certain Australian government operations. I think the fees were around a half million.
Deloitte proudly delivered the report and initially defended it when nonbelievers pointed out a few flaws. The footnotes didn't make sense. One of the sources for the report was a lofty tome that unfortunately doesn't actually exist. Legal citations were either inappropriate or whole cloth fiction. A quote from an Australian federal judge gave great credence to the report as long as you overlook the fact the judge didn't actually say what the Deloitte report claimed.
In other words, it was artificial intelligence pulling artificial facts out of its artificial rectum. How charming.
Two months ago, Deloitte released a YouTube video bragging about their work with AI, saying that before AI their processes were an impediment to achieving their ambitions (Deloitte's word).
Enter AI.
It's all mildly hilarious until you consider another fact, which makes the shameful tale extremely hilarious.
The government function the report analyzed favorably was an automated welfare violations system.
Deloitte's AI, in what could be the world's first case of cross platform artificial conspiracy, praised Australia's AI.
I hope I never have to give a briefing at work about Deloitte's various scandals.
The company's full name is Deloitte and Touche. I can't help it. My spooneristic snark reflex kicks in and all I see is Toilet and Douche.
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Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado for winning the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize - for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy
From the Nobel Prize website:
“It was a choice of ballots over bullets”
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 goes to a brave and committed champion of peace – to a woman who keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness. As the leader of the democracy movement in Venezuela, Maria Corina Machado is one of the most extraordinary examples of civilian courage in Latin America in recent times.
Ms Machado has been a key, unifying figure in a political opposition that was once deeply divided – an opposition that found common ground in the demand for free elections and representative government.
From the Nobel Prize website:
“It was a choice of ballots over bullets”
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 goes to a brave and committed champion of peace – to a woman who keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness. As the leader of the democracy movement in Venezuela, Maria Corina Machado is one of the most extraordinary examples of civilian courage in Latin America in recent times.
Ms Machado has been a key, unifying figure in a political opposition that was once deeply divided – an opposition that found common ground in the demand for free elections and representative government.
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For the first time in decades, Athens visitors and locals can get an unobstructed, scaffolding-free view of the Parthenon temple.
The scaffolding set up along the 5th-century B.C. marble temple's western façade for conservation work has been removed.
The scaffolding set up along the 5th-century B.C. marble temple's western façade for conservation work has been removed.
Well I hope to write more today, so im happy because of this.
Clifford is a Huskey apparently: Dog owner on life with a 13-stone Alaskan Malamute! He's a very good boy!
Made a really fantastic soup today for my lunches the rest of the week. It's lentil barley, and I made the broth out of carrots, shallots, garlic, celery, and cabbage I blended up after sauteing. There's also red pepper flakes, cumin seeds, coriander, ginger, and fenugreek I toasted before dumping in everything. It simmered with a cinnamon stick and a few bay leaves (and leftover parmesan rind) for a few hours and it's so pleasant. My house smells amazing.
