Y2/D322 - Tired

[shadowkat]

I got up early to do laundry - the best time to do laundry is at 6 AM on a weekday, unfortunately, it's also only possible when I'm working remotely or have the day off. Because I'm usually off to the train by 6:35 am, and on the train by 6:45-6:50, then on the second train by 7:15, which leaves at 7:29. There's too many steps, cross-walks, and lengthy platforms to cut it close.

I did not venture outside - but I'm told it warmed up a bit. And it was sunny outside the window. Now, it's getting overcast again - which does not bode well for the rest of the week. If it's too icy on Friday - I'm calling in a Personal Day.

BYT managed to get me 2 hours of Comp Time. They apparently shot it down, until she informed them that she ordered me to do it.

Me: So you lied to them?
BYT: Yeah well, I'd have told you to if I thought of it.
Me: I did it because I didn't want to miss the deadline.
BYT: Yeah, I'd have done the same thing.

I have mixed feelings about BYT as you can well imagine.

Anyhow, after talking to mother (who is wrestling with how to handle her taxes digitially - she's a luddite, I want to strangle her accountants), and taking a hot shower, washing my hair, I made "Keto" (basically low in sugar and carbs and grain free) brownies for desert. [Keto unlike Paeolo has no issues with butter - the more the better.] I'll make dinner shortly. (I know it's in reverse, don't care. The desert takes longer.)

Mother: 90 year olds can do their taxes online.
Me: Yes, well, not everyone is the same.
Mother: I should be able to do this - but my computer keeps crashing on me and I'm worried.
Me: Maybe talk to my brother? He uses an accountant...(I don't - I use Turbo Tax, but guided my mother through her tax accountant's system over the phone - isn't something I can do.)
Mother: I didn't call him yesterday to see if he'd call me, he didn't.
Me: He didn't? Well Phooey on him. He doesn't get a cookie.

Technology has become the bane of my existence. Tomorrow, I get to figure out how to get Zoom on my work computer. It works on my laptop. Tech doesn't work equally on all computers - or so I've discovered.

I've avoided becoming a BFN on either Soap Twitter or FB, do not want. There are crazy people on line. It's why I'm leery of fandoms, because I was (albeit briefly) a BFN in the Buffy fandom. It was not pleasant. Again, crazy people. And having anonymity - makes them crazier.

Soap Twitter fought over whether someone can lose a birth certificate, or not be able to find any record of it. I'm like, really. Yellowstone did that already on its show - and it's a hyper-realistic show. Also, I know people who have had that happen - they were adopted, no one told them, and they didn't look at their birth certificate closely - most don't.

Now they are making fun of a male character who is allegedly a Virgin and can't drive.

Our society is overly obsessed with sex and cars and not in a good way.

They also can't figure out why the media critics think the soap has the best writing - they are right there. Although when it comes to media critics, I'm always wonder what they are comparing it to. Because that's an important factor. If in comparison to other daytime soaps, then I suddenly feel vindicated for not watching the others. (Not that I cared one way or the other.)

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I wore a mask to do laundry - mostly out of habit, considering no one was down there or in the hallway, and I was mostly by myself.

I finished The Worst Guy an independently published contemporary romance available for free on Kindle Unlimited. It was rec'd by SmartBitches, and better than expected. Smartbitches is kind of hit or miss in the rec's department.

It's about two smart surgeons with narcissistic fathers and bad childhoods, who hook up during conflict resolution therapy. I found the male lead adorable, the female lead - I kept wanting to smack, but she was more relatable than most.

I'd say it was a better contemporary romance than most. Probably because it was independently published and broke some of the rules and tropes. Publishers are insanely inflexible when it comes to stylistic choices in genre.

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Okay off to make dinner, watch my soap, and veg...here have a picture:

Comments

[mtbc]

I might have gotten all my forms now for doing my taxes, I think my W-2 came today, will check for remaining 1099s online.

I've found Zoom to be less temperamental than Teams, at least. It can be buggy but still usable.

Yeah, I wear a mask in situations I'll plausibly have someone come in on me, it's just easier, one less thing to think about then.

[shadowkat]

Agree on Zoom - I prefer it for certain things over Teams. Also it can host a lot more people.

I have a teams meeting and I'm not sure it will be able to handle as many folks as I'm inviting to it.

Zoom can handle up to 1000. Teams can do up to 100, I think. It's why Crazy Org did Zoom for all hands on deck meeting today - they had up to 500 participants. Teams can't do that. Zoom is pricier - so we have to get permission to use it, and are not usually permitted. Webinar is the other one we tend to us.

To date? I've been on Zoom, Skype, FaceTime, Teams, Webinar, and...something else I can't remember the name of. (It wasn't Twitch which is used for concerts and conventions - it can hold up to 50,000 participants.)

[mtbc]

Bluejeans maybe? (I expect you'd remember if it were one of the Google ones like Hangouts.)

[shadowkat]

No, I think it was either Google or a browser service..

[tellshannon815]

Sometimes in my old job I'd have to apply for copies of birth certificates for people, and there were a few times when it could be difficult to get hold of them because we had something like the wrong information for place of birth, or one family had been known to us by one spelling of their last name for years and then it turned out their birth certificates contained a different spelling. One guy proved quite difficult to track down and it eventually turned out that the date on his birth certificate was three and a half years different from the one we had on record for him. So at this point I would question nothing on that front.

[shadowkat]

Also there's people who legally change their names. Or put the wrong father's name down. Or in the case of sperm donors - have an agreement not to put any father down. So, yeah, like you said? I wouldn't question anything on that score.