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Mar. 30th, 2026 05:32 pm
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I'm reading this bio of Empress Frederic, the mother of Kaiser Wilhelm who was in charge during WWI. It occurs to me that all those people who want to time travel back and kill Hitler would be better off stretching the trip and go back and kill Bismarck. You could probably prevent two world wars.

I made an appointment to change the oil in the car and give it a little loving maintenance. It's always a fraught decision to go to a new car place in a new town. It's a trust issue.

I got tea! Ok...coffee, but STILL

Mar. 29th, 2026 08:05 am
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First off, I missed doing a check in last week so to catch up, I was 196.4 last week and 195.9 this week. Yes, it's going down but I'm tracking calories and weighing things and it should be at at least a pound or more per week at the deficit that I'm eating. Ah well. I have another month of the 2.5 dose and since the effectiveness is wearing off and the weight is on the verge of completely stalling, I'll let the doc know that it's time to go up a level for the month after that. The side effects are lessening so it's time. I probably could have bumped up already but I'll just exercise willpower for a month.

I am going to experiment with not tracking calories this week and see how it goes. I know mentally I'll be doing the math which is fine and I'll be aware of making good food choices. I'm also going to take off a couple of random days this week since I need to start slowly chewing up vacation days as not to lose any at the end of June and also since Bossdude Josh is off this week taking his daughter to colleges so it's an ideal time. I'll do some filming on those days as well as will get to the Y.

I won't be taking tomorrow off, though it's tempting because I got to see my girl Noor and also be there for the PIPING HOT TEA. That post I made last week about Lindsay? Well, there is NEWS. Girl put in her NOTICE! WOO HOO! Luckily for Elaine and Josh, the head of the business office is going to let them list the position since he knows that having more staff is a dire need in our office. Not that any of the help is going to be for me but I digress.

Anyway, on Friday, Elaine was annoying the SHIT out of me with her woe is me crap and how she's so busyyyyy with no hellllp. Bitch, shut UP. You are finally getting rid of the dead weight to get a new and better person so suck it up.

Now there IS going to be more drama because Lindsay wants to take her I think they said 60 sick days. Uh...unless you're getting a doctor to write you out with some form of dire illness, you can't do that. So it'll be interesting to see how THAT goes.

Also, Emily's right hand gal Alicia will be applying for the job and Noor is going to help me push having her get it since she would be a fantastic and well qualified person. It would suck for Emily to lose her but their center is slowly dying so it's time for people to jump ship. Emily's looking and not getting bites but fortunately as long as she makes it to August without the center going tits up, she'll be at her 25 years and can retire with full benefits and look for non-RU, non-State jobs

So this week should be interesting, eh?

The Friday Five for 27 March 2026

Mar. 26th, 2026 07:57 pm
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1. What is a common ear worm that you get?

2. How long do they last?

3. What do you do to get rid of them?

4. What is the worst ear worm you've ever had?

5. Do you get some guilty pleasure in passing the ear worm along?

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Noticed just now that Raye has a new song. They went all out for the visuals in the video too.

Field trips and lemon pound cake

Mar. 19th, 2026 04:27 pm
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Tomorrow I'm going to one of the other campuses at work to attend a half-day meeting with folks from the farms and centers about research going on there (and some Rutgers engineering faculty also registered of which I'm sure at least one of them will ask about the land-grant funding which I'll have to explain why no, they aren't eligible). I'm looking forward to seeing some folks I haven't seen in a while but decidedly NOT looking forward to seeing the former semi-Bosslady that retired I think sometime in 2024. Woman, stay retired. Go away. Ugh. I'll try not to twitch when she calls me "Di" since I loathe that nickname. Hopefully she ignores me and keeps her distance. I'll certainly keep mine.

In a weird and amusing distraction, I just heard about the "Afroman" case today and evidently he won! Afroman prevails in cops' music video defamation suit after a brief but viral trial Feel free to click the link in the article with the Lemon Pound Cake video on YT that has nearly 4M views.

Also, the look he wore to court was pretty epic

The Friday Five for 20 March 2026

Mar. 19th, 2026 03:19 pm
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These questions were suggested by [personal profile] melagan.

1. What was the reason you began a Dreamwidth or LiveJournal account (or both)?

2. How many DW or LJ communities do you subscribe to?

3. Do you have a favorite community or one you check out often to see what's new?

4. How did you pick your user name?

5. If you could change your user name, would you?

The following bonus questions are brought to you by the fact that I (anais_pf) have been unable to access any page of LiveJournal for more than a week (and therefore cannot post to The Friday Five there):

6. If you have a LiveJournal, are you currently able to access it?

7. Do you have any information about why one would be unable to access LiveJournal?

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EDITED TO ADD: Today for the first time in a while, I am able to see on my computer that LiveJournal does indeed exist. However, when I try to log in, I get the message "Your IP address is temporarily banned." I will try again later. I hope someday to access LJ again. Thanks to all who tried to help!

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