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I finally made pearl earrings to replace the ones I lost one of. This is my third incarnation of these earrings. I love them! They're so pretty!
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carfree community exists. I should've known, and looked for it a long time ago. Yeah childfree carfree televisionfree.* ;) It's funny, today I went to a climate change rally in Davis Square. I signed a petition, and met a guy who just installed solar panels on his roof in Somerville and who gave me his email address. Wait for it -- that's not the funny part, the funny part was this:
Speaker: Who here supports public transportation?
Crowd: YEAH!
Speaker: Who took the train here? (pause) About eight people. See, this is what I'm talking about!
Crowd: WE WAAAALKED!
Speaker: Oh, personal transportation. Well, that's good too.
Heh. Welcome to Somerville, feisty little ally of the People's Republic of Cambridge. Oh, btw, if anyone else around here is feeling civic and wants to hack a town, there's an online application up for being on an advisory committee to the Young Somerville Network. Doesn't look like much work.
The huge news from yesterday is that my part of Colubrid is discontinuing two of our four products. My old co-worker Janet told me to always work on the core product/project of any company I work for, and she was so right: I work on core analytic stuff, and... this huge news doesn't endanger me or my group at all. If anything, the "everything's changing" thing could be good for my odds of staying, considering that I was getting pretty miserable. I found out recently that my vacation will bump up from 13 to 18 days/year starting in July, and I'll also be promoted in August which will get me into a larger pool for bonuses. The cool mini-project that I was trying to inherit from Jedi Master, whose last day was yesterday, might be sort of dying along with the two products that are dying, but there are other things.
* though I don't belong to thechildfree community anymore; as most of you know, it's too ranty for me. childfree_zone is calmer.
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carfree community exists. I should've known, and looked for it a long time ago. Yeah childfree carfree televisionfree.* ;) It's funny, today I went to a climate change rally in Davis Square. I signed a petition, and met a guy who just installed solar panels on his roof in Somerville and who gave me his email address. Wait for it -- that's not the funny part, the funny part was this:Speaker: Who here supports public transportation?
Crowd: YEAH!
Speaker: Who took the train here? (pause) About eight people. See, this is what I'm talking about!
Crowd: WE WAAAALKED!
Speaker: Oh, personal transportation. Well, that's good too.
Heh. Welcome to Somerville, feisty little ally of the People's Republic of Cambridge. Oh, btw, if anyone else around here is feeling civic and wants to hack a town, there's an online application up for being on an advisory committee to the Young Somerville Network. Doesn't look like much work.
The huge news from yesterday is that my part of Colubrid is discontinuing two of our four products. My old co-worker Janet told me to always work on the core product/project of any company I work for, and she was so right: I work on core analytic stuff, and... this huge news doesn't endanger me or my group at all. If anything, the "everything's changing" thing could be good for my odds of staying, considering that I was getting pretty miserable. I found out recently that my vacation will bump up from 13 to 18 days/year starting in July, and I'll also be promoted in August which will get me into a larger pool for bonuses. The cool mini-project that I was trying to inherit from Jedi Master, whose last day was yesterday, might be sort of dying along with the two products that are dying, but there are other things.
* though I don't belong to the
childfree community anymore; as most of you know, it's too ranty for me. childfree_zone is calmer.
