Had to rest a spell. Back at it.
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There’s a reorg in the air! I’m not losing my job, but I’m changing managers to from a local manager that reports to a VP to a remote VP that reports to a VP
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The screwiest one I had in my time at CSC gave me a manager who had his office in Australia which is just oh so close to Seattle and the guy had no clue what we did for work on the Boeing contract. On the plus side I got a decent performance review that year and therefore one of the few raises in my near 9 years with them.
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Yeah, hopefully I can stick the landing here and get enough name recognition to jump into the next title/salary band. I just really liked my manager, possibly one of the best I’ve ever had.
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Donald Trump is still president elect.
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I called my landlord because he hadn’t replied to my email about renewing my lease (and the ongoing issue we have with our gutters) and he got back to me to say that his brother has decided he wants to move back in and renovate the house. By the end of March.
Yay. Time to househunt and pack everything right back up again. I’ve said repeatedly I don’t really want to buy a house but suddenly I’m tempted. I just got this one the way I like it!
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Donald Trump is president elect…
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(Thank you for assuming the mantle.)
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Have you looked into custom bracing for your mom, as an alternative to surgery? It’s something doctors often don’t even know about, but can be life changing for people whose pain is aggravated by normal movement or by conditions like Parkinson’s that distort gait and posture and place unnecessary stress on the musculoskeletal system.
Parkinson’s can evolve very rapidly, so her condition might not be static enough for simple bracing to help with her back problems, but I thought I’d mention it in case your mom’s doctors haven’t.
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Donald Trump is going to nominate a diplomat to Israel who is pro-land grabbing from the Palestinians, and who wants to move the US Embasy to the contested city of Jerusalem. World peace? Who cares?
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I’ll mention it to my dad. She was diagnosed with Parkinson’s 11 years ago. It has progressed slowly. It’s so hard to tell – between the four things – what’s causing what.
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While waiting for the bus after work today I realized I had dropped my right glove . . . somewhere. I had it this morning. Maybe I had it when I left work? Didn’t have time to go back and look for it. My warmest pair of gloves, and one of only two pairs that aren’t still in storage–and I lost half of the other pair a few weeks ago. One of my grandmas used to knit mittens for us kids with a connecting cord to string through the arms of our jackets so we couldn’t lose them; clearly I still need that 
And my sweetie was supposed to be coming home tonight, but the weather where he is (Wisconsin) is much nastier than the weather here and he might not make it home until tomorrow.
Petty shit, but I am suddenly so tired and wanting to lie on the floor and throw a fit like a toddler.
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Did you lose the same hand from each pair?
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I walked away to check right before you posted that. As a matter of fact I lost the right of one pair and the left of the other. Problem solved! (One is thick black fleece, the other is brown leather. Gonna look pretty silly!)
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I’m more interested in who the next Dread Pirate Sanders is going to be. The new Dread Pirate Sanders is going to be the one who gets Trumperdinck.
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It never fails. I spend all autumn dithering over whether or not I’ll need gloves this winter, then in winter realize I don’t have any complete pairs of gloves, and then when the weather really gets bad none of the brick and mortar stores carry my size.
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Dare we ask? Mine was promising if I’m delusional, whole next set of paperwork to gather and submit…
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@piratejenny: now I don’t feel so bad, since I’ve almost lost a glove twice already this year and tend to lose at least one each winter! 
I’ve been thinking about either crocheting a long string or safety - pinning my gloves to my coatsleeves.
@jsroberts and @LearnedCoward: I freaking love the Princess Bride analogies. 
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Health insurance issues, or birthday?
Insurance: figured out a work-around that isn’t great, but do-able so that I don’t lose my onco, etc. and will have some mechanism to avoid having no lifetime cap.
Birthday: friends threw me a great little party. Just got home, in fact. Homemade cake, lots of great conversation, really wonderful.
So I guess this isn’t the right thread for my response!
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