I was hoping you would weigh in on the whole Chick-Fil-A thing. I imagine you would disagree with his stance, but support his right to have one. Am I right?

She did: http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2012/07/26/whats_with_the.html

I was going to bitch about forgetting what I wanted to bitch about, but I think I'll go all Pollyanna instead (for those of you old enough to know about Pollyanna:

I'm ambulatory.

My husband and I are both working.

My house hasn't been eaten by a sinkhole, nor is my yard crumbling down a cliff, hell, we're not even having a power failure (all stories from this week)

The car is in good shape.

I like my boss and my co-workers.

I don't have any weddings to attend.

Likewise funerals.

And it's Friday. We now return you to your regularly scheduled program.

Yeah. What Ppear said! Right now, it's all good (subject to change at a moment's notice!)...

I found this article on making/keeping friends interesting as one moves into middle age.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/fashion/the-challenge-of-making-friends-as-an-adult.html?_r=3&pagewanted=all

Apropos of nothing really, maybe it's the heat--I am reminded of the Tumbleweeds comic strip, which featured among other things Indians who liked to burn captives at the stake. I am thinking of a strip wherein they were having a double feature: The Long Hot Succumber and Ignite, Sweet Prince.

I used to love Tumbleweeds- especially the Chief.

I'm with Pricklypear and Flynne. Nice hot, sunny day, not a lot of pressure at the office. Scored some Nats tickets for me and my eldest next weekend (and they're actually pretty good this year)! Feelin' alright! Have a great weekend, everybody!

I loved the Chief and the Medicine Man. I can't remember their names, but I do remember Limpid Lizard, Green Gills, Squalid Squirrel...and let's not forget the man-crazy schoolmarm, Hildegard Hamhocker. Or the undertaker with the pet vulture...ah, the good old days before political correctness.

The original BC's were pretty funny too.

Don't forget Lotsa Luck!

I remember BC would make me howl when I was a kid! Wizard of Id, too.

Oh fine, get me started. One that sticks in my mind was Hulking Hawk being bothered by Lotsa Luck, and saying "Little man. No likeum Little man. Frowum way." And flipping Lotsa Luck over his shoulder.

I also remember Limpid Lizard or Green Gills, whichever one was in love with the chief's daughter--knowing he could never bring her a buffalo robe and asking how she was fixed for chipmunk-pelt doilies.

I had all the collections, BC too. I just can't remember as many lines. I remember Clumsy Carp, tripping over his footprint, making waterballs...and the fat broad beating the crap out of the snake on a regular basis...

How about Old John the turtle, and the bird who rode around on his shell?

"chipmunk-pelt doilies" *Snicker!*

Yes! And the one-liners between the flower and the rock. OH, and "Hello. I'm an archaeopteryx (or whatever the hell it was), a wingless bird with hairy feathers."

And it's all coming back to me nowwwww....

Oh yeah, it's all coming back. I remember the guys were BC, Peter, Thor, Curls, Wiley, Clumsy and Grog. The girls were the Cute Chick and the Fat Broad. Reminds me of my ex-husband, who only called me "dear".

Well, that's alright. Between charm and intimidation, they ran things anyway.

Just like now...mmmmmmwaahahahahaha!

SATISFIED?!??!?!??!?!?!

You bastards....

Listen, I don't care about this stuff any more than you do, but....

Time to take back some of those things we said about the Middle East.

Well my life has been a living hell.

One of our larger customers called us up late on Monday the 26th asking if we can do a favor by emergency hosting them because they have a virus infecting their network they can't kill. We said yes on Tuesday. They overnight the databases and we have them up in rough form on late Wednesday. We have the software fully operational on Friday night at 10 P.M. EST. (Ten newly built virtual servers in a new configuration that we never tried before to protect us and our other hosted from the virus they can't kill.)

Now at the day 12 mark -- the software is working fine, but we are having problems getting all their printing issues resolved.

I admit that we have had our own issues as well. We had a network drive unit fail that had many print drivers stored. Add in that HP's driver download FTP server failed as well. So we are having problems getting the drivers we need.

The IT guys on their side understand that we did, in essentially a week, what would normally take months. The bean counters on their side are saying things along the lines of "You're ripping us off," and "You just want the money." Not a single one of us on our side has said shit about money. Quite frankly we're willing to take a few thousand dollar "loss" for good customer relations.

We've had three techs working overtime hours to support them along with their IT staff to get things going correctly. Our techs have also been neglecting other customers. I'm not counted in the "billable" time as I'm salaried, and the software I'm helping support isn't normally in my job duties. We're actually going to lose money unless they stay hosted with us for months.

I'm just so pissed off at this point, I want to tell the bean counters "Fuck you! We're shipping your databases back overnight. You figure out what the hell you can and want to do."

The CIO on there side has been nothing but supportive. That is the only reason our techs haven't walked out.

That is my rant of the day.

"My house hasn't been eaten by a sinkhole, nor is my yard crumbling down a cliff, hell, we're not even having a power failure (all stories from this week)"

Some friends of ours lost their house to a fire last Friday. They lost everything except their two cats, who somehow managed to find a way out and hid in the vicinity until they were found a few days ago.

Maybe my life doesn't suck after all.

It was, ahem, about 40 years ago as a young'un that I read of the Long, Hot Succumber and Ignite, Sweet Prince. It was a few weeks ago that suddenly I actually UNDERSTOOD it ;o)

In between I have no real memory of having thought about it. My subconscious is nothing if not relaxed about considering these things!

"So what do you do for exercise?"
"Mostly, we try to stifle yawns."

The global Internet is working today so I should not carp, clumsy or not, about most things.