Yesterday was Blursday so that makes today… Friyay?
I was on Zoom calls for 3 hours yesterday. That shit’s exhausting. 80% of what is going on doesn’t apply to me, but I have to look engaged and pay attention instead of doing my actual work.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining about being gainfully employed during “this difficult time“, it’s just…a lot.
Hope you guys are all hanging in there. It is Friday after all!
Stonks!
New York Stock Exchange to partially reopen May 26, with ‘vital new safety measures,’ president says
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/14/new-york-stock-exchange-to-partially-reopen-may-26-with-vital-new-safety-measures-president-says.html
Now resign from the whole thing:
Sen. Richard Burr stepping aside as Intelligence Committee chair amid FBI investigation of senators’ stock sales
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/14/fbi-richard-burr-warrant/
Given the vein on his forehead, I think he’s gonna stroke out before then:
Jeff Bezos is wealthier by $24 billion in 2020, as Amazon reports at least 74 COVID-19 US warehouse cases and its first death
https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-net-worth-jumps-23-billion-during-coronavirus-crisis-2020-4
A fun game I like to play is “What if all these armed guys were Black?”
Michigan Cancels Legislative Session to Avoid Armed Protesters
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-14/michigan-cancels-legislative-session-to-avoid-armed-protesters
#merica
Can we be a little smarter about this? Please?
Ousted whistleblower warns US facing ‘darkest winter in modern history’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/14/rick-bright-testimony-coronavirus-trump-ousted-whistleblower
Sprots!
Amid layoffs and furloughs, sportswriters wonder what will be left of a storied profession
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/05/14/amid-layoffs-furloughs-sportswriters-wonder-what-will-be-left-once-storied-profession/
Some Good Tweets:
And a little send off…
Have a great Friday!
I have nothing to say except thanks for the “Friday I’m In Love.” video! I love the Cure, good New Waver that I once was.
Once a new waver, always a new waver!
Dolly is a national treasure. Jeff Bezos, not so much.
So, the repubs are circling the Russian meddling wagons so they can Donner party the betrayers. Please let the door hit you on your way out Comrade Burr.
Happy Friday!!!
Aaaagggghhhhh, Zoom calls. Hates them, I do. Now it’s become SOP at my company to turn on your camera. So I have to check my calendar and make sure I’m cleaned up and camera-ready by the first meeting. I wear a headset to avoid annoying everybody in my family more than I absolutely have to (my desk is in the family room). After a couple of hours the headset starts to hurt my big ears. I’ve also started having problems with my internet late in the afternoon, so I keep getting kicked off. Which is fine unless I’m supposed to talk about something.
I’m considering creating a video loop to run while I get up and walk away.
A video loop–just like Sandra Bullock in Speed–is an excellent plan and I think you should do it.
I’ve been lucky (in more ways than one). My boss doesn’t insist on cameras unless we’re interviewing a new hire. Now that we hired two positions, we may be done interviewing, so no cameras at all which is awesome.
Right, that’s genius!
Since I’m usually the only woman on these calls, and all the dudes wear baseball hats, I started wearing a hat as a joke and now I just put my hat on when my hair looks like shit (every day).
https://www.thedad.com/ai-to-ditch-zoom-meetings/
…I thought that only happened in that silicon valley tv show?
That’s hilarious.
This one is also v. good.
https://digg.com/2020/zoom-meetings-coworker
Close talkers are annoying!
Especially now when they can literally Kill you!
I already use crazy background videos, like fish tanks and waterfalls and beach scenes. All I really need to do is spend about 3 minutes staring into my camera and capturing it with Camtasia, and Zoom will just loop it for me. As long as I don’t have to talk, no one would be the wiser.
Woke up at 3:48am thinking it was Sunday. Went to use the lav, thinking I can go back to bed and sleep in. Halfway thru I realized it was only Friday and I have to be up in an hour for work. Naturally, i didn’t get back to sleep.
I woke up because I was having a nightmare that I was stuck in NYC and everyone was crowded and not wearing masks and I couldn’t find my train in Penn Station. So that was fun. I woke up with tears in my eyes.
First off, super happy about Burr thing but what about Loeffler & Inhofe? Those fuckers need to go down too but I guess only Burr didn’t kiss Trump’s ass hard enough? I also find it funny that the conspiracy theory idiots think Bill Gates started this yet it is Bezos that is getting rich from it. But I did just see some great news if true!
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/hackers-claim-theyve-got-trumps-dirty-laundry-and-demand-42-million-ransom-to-keep-it-private/
That could make things..interesting to say the least.
I saw on Twitter the FBI was talking to Feinstein as well.
and supposedly she is the only one that has her stocks in a blind trust. What about the other 2 shitheads?
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article242737721.html
The FBI has to be talking to them, right?
In a world where the law mattered & not what Trump wants, sure.
Loeffler was asked if the feds were talking to her and she dodged and the only reply out of her office was that there hadn’t been any search warrants.
I assume next we’ll be hearing no DNA tests, no backhoes digging up her yard, and no bloodhounds were given any clothes to sniff and then led around her estate.
Not just Friday, but Fur Face Friday!
https://backtalk.kinja.com/fur-face-friday-1843450784
…rejoice…for salvation is at hand
Happy weekend to everyone!
Started a new tradition to mark the weekend, the FancyFridayCocktail. I’ve been contemplating what to make since 6:45AM when I started work.
Any suggestions?
I have all the booze and most of mixers. And garnishes (its not fancy if you don’t garnish).
I like this. Where will you be having these cocktails? It’s a nice day here so we’re having our’s on the patio. I’m making The Good Egg Cream from Monday’s Coffee Break https://deadsplinter.com/2020/05/11/coffee-break-11-5-20/
2 oz premium vodka
1 oz St. George NOLA Coffee Liqueur
1 oz whole milk
2 oz seltzer
I don’t have NOLA Coffee Liqueur so I have to sub Tia Maria but it should still be good. Not very fancy though.
And this sounds delish – a Sunday morning winner!
I made my wife a blueberry quarantini the other night:
2-shots vodka
1-shot triple sec
1/4 cup smashed/juiced blueberries
Shaken not stirred w/ 2 to 3 ice cubes
Serve in martini glass
splash of sprite
lime wedge garnish
We have frozen blueberries in our freezer so I usually just defrost some in microwave which seems to squeeze most of juice out, shaker does rest and filters.
I’ve got some raspberries in the freezer!
Works just as well with raspberries.
I have all of that. Plus strawberries cooked to a syrup for a variation. I may need to drink all weekend with all the suggestions.
I’ve done it with strawberries and vanilla vodka and it tastes like strawberry cheesecake!
Made that last evening. Delish. Keitel and I sat out back sipping and discussing the day.
Mr. McGee just came into the office and said he made a pitcher of Painkillers.
#RIP MegMeg
Ingredients
2 oz Pusser’s rum
4 oz Pineapple juice
1 oz Orange juice
1 oz Cream of coconut
Garnish: Grated nutmeg
Garnish: Pineapple wedge
Steps
Add all ingredients into a shaker with ice and shake vigorously.
Strain into a hurricane glass or snifter over crushed ice.
Garnish with freshly grated nutmeg and a pineapple wedge.
Serve with a straw.
I want this.
Ask me tomorrow.
Added the pineapple to shopping list – this sounds like Saturday’s cocktail.
Umm it is 10:30 in the morning but I thought with all the juice it was a breakfast drink? Yummy. Cooking ahead for the week should be fun!
Beer. Whiskey/Whisky. Repeat.
I got you covered, come on over.
Is it your beer on tap?
Yes, one is called Stir Crazy (a West Coast IPA) and the other is still carbonating but is Solitary Confinement (a NE IPA).
Is it Oregon or Washington? Either way, it’s a little far.
One of my college roommates is in Bend. Still haven’t gotten out there to see him.
Washington. Bend, OR. is amazing though! More good breweries in a small area than almost anyplace, beautiful Deschutes River through the town and Mt. Bachelor right there. You should visit him.
im filing this one to headlines i never thought id see
Coronavirus: Dutch singletons advised to seek ‘sex buddy’
lol…. hahahhahhahahahahaaaaa*coughweezedead*
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52685773
Better grab a good one now Farscythe before they are all gone! Ok, not grab but you know what I mean.
lol im married….i grabbed mine early :p
also that has got to be the first time ever the gubments told me that masturbating together apart on camera is a great idea
this is a strange strange time to be in
Well that escalated quickly. Friday indeed.
blame the gubment
i do
its fun
now please excuse me whilst i carry on trying to laugh meself to death about official gubment sex advice
Safety first.
i actually forgot that one started with the gubment too
lol
Fuckin’ HOLLAND, man. . . .
I’d accept an arrangement like this.