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[wifeoftj]

Happy Birthday Ethan! Sweet 16 - craziness! You are as handsome as you are talented and we could not be more proud of you. Love you to the moon and back!

[lnthefade]

Usher Syndrome Awareness Day

In honor of our friend Sarah, I would like to call attention to Usher Syndrome Awareness Day.

Usher syndrome is a relatively rare genetic disorder caused by a mutation in any one of 10 genes resulting in a combination of hearing loss and visual impairment, and is a leading cause of deafblindness. Usher syndrome is incurable at present.

I am posting this in support of awareness and hope. For more information, go here. And if you are able to, donate. It’s a very worthy cause. And please check out the awesome people who are running a marathon in Alaska today to raise awareness.

[filmchris]

Friday Friday Friday Friday Friday

1. MITU is finally here!  Been looking forward to this for a looooooong time. 

2. Obi got to meet Cherilyn today.  I think they were both impressed. 

3. There's going to be a LOT of booze at my house, and houseguest greentanktop has informed me that she's a very good bartender. We shall see...

4. I bought a new bed yesterday.  While putting it together, Obi sat in the corner, behind a basket of laundry, watching with a nervous look.  Dogs don't like change.  He's now resting very comfortably on it; dogs adapt quickly. 

5. I like SarahInMI's question about life soundtracks very much.  Three songs is tough, but here are mine: "Disintegration" by The Cure, "roygbiv" by Boards Of Canada, and "Pushit" by Tool. 

[jeeneebee]

Sarah has renewed my need to listen to mass quantities of Fiona Apple. Thanks Sarah. Oh Fiona, I have missed you!

[meetingboy]

@SarahInMI asks @MeetingBoy some questions. Here's an excerpt. Click through for the full post.

2. What are your favorite strategies for cutting a meeting short? (My favorite idea has always been to have everyone guzzle a bottle of water before the meeting starts.)

MeetingBoy: That meeting threatened to drag on for 3 hours. Drinking the bottle of laxative was my only way out. I regret nothing.

I know you think you have good ideas, and you do, but first lesson, rookie, is no one calls a meeting to hear someone else talk.

That’s a good one. In theory. However, in practice, it usually turns out to just have everyone being really uncomfortable, but the meeting still dragging on. This is because unless the boss has to go more than they like to hear themselves talk, they will just keep going.

Though on further reflection, maybe it would work with a small enhancement: force all bosses to get bladder reduction surgery. In the same way that obese people get surgery to reduce their stomach size which then forces them to eat smaller portions, if we gave bosses smaller bladders, then they would be forced to hold shorter meetings. This could work!

Another strategy would be to only hold meetings on a log headed into a lumber saw. Or on a railroad track as a train approaches. Though once the group has escaped danger, the boss will probably just convene a “follow-up and touch-base” meeting. And those can be the worst meetings because they only appear to have an agenda.

MeetingBoy: Just got an email “Group Touchbase – 2:00″. I checked with the sender and, yes, that is a euphemism for group masturbation.