See but the cheese and sour cream are completely unmissable if you pay the 1.95 for guac, which is full of healthy fats you simply can't get in most other foods. It nets out like 500 less calories that way and you can't even taste the difference. Plus, no explosive diarrhea after.

Is this a "Congratulations on taking this big step and demanding more for yourself," moved out or a, "Girl, fuck that trifling fool and his friends," kinda moved out?

my love is deep, and it's real. They're making me take a Surface in April. :'(

II have been here! It is just as remarkable as it seems in pictures. I could have stayed there my whole life! There's a hole in the fortification wall that raiders used to pass their booty quickly up the hill. If I can find the picture I'll post it here!

I was thinking the same thing. The line of demarcation between "colored people," and "people of color," is so very narrow. I would not have been offended by this as a "person of color," whatever color that means I'm supposed to be.

Wrong again, buddy. Cruise ships automatically add between $8-15 per person, per day to the shipboard account of guests as a Hotel Service Charge, like resorts add a "resort fee." For a couple on a 7-night cruise, at an average $12/day, that's $168. Given a 1500- room contemporary cruise ship, that's a quarter of a…

Silly me, I just sit on the CLIA board, but I know nothing about cruising...

The passenger count has a huge amount to do with what they're paid. Gratuities represent half their overall compensation and yes fluctuate with passenger counts.

Not actually true, this. Many of the workers on cruise ships are from the Phillipines and Indonesia and this kind of job is respected, well paid work because the labor laws are codified internationally and compare well to other options for middle class and underprivileged workers. You can support a family and also…

Crystal Serenity is not the same as Carnival Magic, just the same way that an '85 Yugo is not the same as a new Benz.

There was a woman who did this when I worked for Princess Cruises when I was a kid. Her name was Lorraine, and the last year I worked there, I handled all her bookings. When it came time to redecorate the ship, we flew Lorraine in and she got to pick all her own fabrics and carpets and furnishings. It was only…

I would have bought it right now if there was a link to one.

You can create content on an iPad. You can create content on an iPhone; I do the majority of my blogging that way. What you're saying is, "I don't want to create content on my iPad because it's not a full-fledged PC," and that's insane. It's a tablet, and a goddamn great one at that. If you want a PC, use a PC. …

I salute you! I'm a wimp when it comes to call centers— I've only worked for luxury tour operators, so it's not like mortgage or (god forbid) timeshares. And now that I'm the boss things are pretty cushy, all things being equal. But fuck me if those early years weren't a test of my endurance.

It's from the Cherry Street Coffee House in Seattle. I don't know their recipe (or even if it's original to them) but it's so amazing.

Uh, I'm pretty sure "To be fair..." is the new "I'm pretty sure..."

beep beep zip-bang!

California and Washington (probably others, but that's the only 2 I've managed employees in,) require 6-8 hours between shifts depending on the type of work. Blue-collar jobs tend to get the 6 hours believe it or not, whereas my call-center employees get a minimum of 8 between shifts. Actually, we're not open enough…

"This salmon is just covered in gluten!"

I love this, and so empathize with the sentiment. My BFF and I have worked together at 3 different companies now. Whenever we see someone behaving like a right hack, we look at one another and say, "And yet we still have to go to work every day at [ACME Anvils]."