Posts under ‘life’

Tweets for the Week

@jamessocol It's not standard anywhere, and in the US if they ask for that information it must be marked optional. in reply to jamessocol # @jamessocol Interesting! I'd love to see some reporting on why that is, and how it affects the HR dynamic here and there. in reply to jamessocol # Am I the [...]

Lily Reads Pete the Cat

Here is my awesome genius niece Lily, demonstrating that her cranial capacity is far beyond the average 2.62 year old. Not only does she know her alphabet without fail, but she’s also unlocked achivements Bossy Toddler, Camera Mug, Killer Rock and Roll Face and Cutest Storyteller Ever. Pete the Cat is her favorite story and [...]

How Loki Spent his Third Birthday

Despite the fact that yesterday he peed on the floor and murdered two of my houseplants, I decided Loki deserved a bit of extra lurves for being in my life. I adopted that psychotic little furball with my husband two years ago, and we named him after the god of chaos because we thought it [...]

Tweets for the Week

I am officially old. My teenage sister just explained the word "bamf" to me, which is apparently the hip lingo kids are jive talking. # @n2linux apparently it's an acronym for 'bad ass mother fucker.' Kids these days … in reply to n2linux # @lmorchard No joke, man. You can't even get some sugar from [...]

Loki Bday Special Part 1

Violet explains it all

Two months old and she’s already got PhDs in Renaissance Literature and pooping her pants.

Career AFK

So, I’m currently LFG IRL and the quest line has epically stalled. Unemployment is difficult — it’s a serious drain on the mana to sit camping in a bind spot waiting for some friendly human resources mage to resurrect me. Forget accumulating XP; at this point I’d even relish the chance to just do a [...]