We just installed a video conferencing system in each of our offices. The olds would rather drive one to two hours to meet in person on routine matters, taking less than an hour for the actual meeting, rather than learn something new. (And the new is basically "hey, kid, turn this on at 3 for me.")

I've had that job. It's probably how I found half my internet locales. And did you know there was a limit on hotmail messages, at least in 2004? My spouse and I maxed it out almost daily on those down weeks.

Not to pile on to the weather, but that made me think of sludge. I had a boss that "didn't think the weather was an issue; you chose to live here." Four hour drive that will take eighteen because of lake effect? Better leave right after work. And not early.

As a manager, I try for ROWE-esque environments. We're a law office and today everyone is in jeans, I hear music playing, one dog just wandered by, and it's not unusual for a baby or toddler to be here with a parent. I don't get much sludge from my bosses, other than requiring all sorts of timesheets in duplicate just…

When I was at a private firm, so much sludge. The whole day was a stack of inefficiencies nestled on top of each other, designed so that routine tasks could be stretched to fill time sheets.

Getting out of Watertown is generally a healthy move for anyone.

It comes out on my birthday. I don't mind getting older if I get to see this movie. Age me, time, age me!

Thanks for that. Sums it up

Agreed. He has no guarantee he'll catch on with a team or have a career. He has a narrow window to cash in on his name. I doubt I'd watch his show, but I can't blame him for doing what he can to carry his message and/or get paid.

I understand what you're saying, but for me, it helps. In the worst throes I feel alone and adrift and seeing someone out there I can relate to—before getting bitterly jealous and depressed about how much better a writer she is than me, and I only wish that was a 100% facetious aside—is helpful.

I'm so old, I have it on 45

So well put and so scarily familiar.

I'm squarely Team Cat and this still is the best post ever.

40 and agree. I can't imagine subjecting myself to two relationships. Usually I want to find mopey 20something me who just wanted a relationship and beat him with a pipe.

except her work is only relevant when it's right wingers that want to bash PP. Her work has little to do with the mission and operations of the agency today.

Or else maybe people who have thought about issues and aren't internet trolls are well aware of Sanger's issues and realize it has nothing to do with an agency related to female health care, so we aren't trying to score political points by bringing her up.

She founded PP + she had views that are cringeworthy in the light of today's scientific understanding + liberals like PP - she wasn't listed = Liberal plot to deny her existence, probably traced all the way to Obama's secret Muslim Kenyan bunker, while highlighting racist conservatives who really aren't racist because…

I don't know how you do it, as a black man. As a white man who tries to be sensitive to race and class issues, I just want to hit these people with a shovel.

True, in the court of public opinion. In the court of law, though, lawyers from both sides will be dealing with a narrow set of issues. The question, when busted for DWI, isn't if they stopped all the other guys speeding away from the party, but if one has a certain BAC. "Does the league have authority to remove DS?"…

Seriously. That's got every false-email-from-elderly-relatives red flag waving on it.