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At my last job I had to create purchase orders for software licenses. Amounts of over 3 million were quote normal. I did count all the zeros before hitting the submit button just to be sure I didn't have one too many or less :)

Yeah -- I do enough work studying the finances of millionaires that I turned on the “use commas” function in the calculator program :D

rdprice29

I can imagine, omg. Did Deebs scream at you when you got home from work? <3

LOL she did, for a brief moment, but then she remembered The Ritual and got really excited. 

When I was working at the office, and previously at my old office, we had this ritual. When they were kittens they weren’t allowed in the bedroom during the day while I wasn’t there, so every evening when I got home they would come running to greet me, accepting pets and telling me about their day while I took off my shoes and coat. Then they would RUN to the bedroom door and I would let them in. Polk liked to run around climbing on things, but Dearborn would go straight to the bed, flop over on it, and roll over for tummy rubs. 

Even after I started leaving the bedroom door open during the day, and they would spend most of the day sleeping on the bed, when I got home they would come zooming out to greet me and then zoom right back to the bedroom. 

Tbh, I've never understood the hate for Christmas decorations left up year round, especially just lights. If it doesn't look ratty and gross, who cares about shiny, colorful ribbons or evergreen wreaths? (Honestly, I dont even care if it looks ratty, cuz it's not my life and potentially makes my house look better by comparison.)

Yeah, lights up year round are just a nice decoration, honestly. 

As regards ratty decorations, I think the issue is that it might make your house look better but it also makes everyone’s house worth less money. We’re stuck in this weird terrible system where the appearance of every individual house contributes to the home values of the entire neighborhood, so even if you don’t care that your neighbor’s house looks like crap, it’s taking thousands of dollars off the value of your own home when it does. People get really shirty about that, rather than about the general crapness of the overall system. And “leaving holiday decorations up” is an indicator to some that the person doesn’t care about the appearance of their home, which implies eventual yard/home ugliness, which circles back to the “home values” thing. 

I don’t mind twinkly lights or wreaths, and I bought my home to live in and not as an investment so the home values thing is unpleasant but not enough to make me be a dick to someone over it, but I do admit I don’t want to see Santa in someone’s yard in July. Though that’s not exclusive to Christmas decorations, I’d be the same with fourth of July flags in December. It’s just boring to look at after a while. 

arukou-arukou

I must've missed the story of the dragon by the door. What is this?

'i'm not sure why you were directed to me, but I'll give you a comprehensive answer including the fact that it used to be my user name' Sam, I think I know why they were redirected to you

Well, I mean, they did ask, it would be rude not to answer. I’m just intrigued that I would be the first source put forward when someone asks. 

rosefyrefyre

Have you considered a dragon shaped mezuzah? Since you're seriously considering Judaism.

So I should try the hardware store for a fake tree ... good to know. (Yes, I'm procrastinating.)

Yeah, I think a larger store would have more selection, but mine had about ten fake trees of various sizes left. I bought the floor model of that one :D

kimmiesue13

Are you decorating with the word ornaments? I still have that file somewhere!

I’m not, because I already have too many ornaments, BUT the file is also available online still! Man, it’s been a minute, hasn’t it. 

speedgeek

How do the kitties like the decorated trree?

They’re a little curious but mostly haven’t really shown much interest -- they’ve sniffed around the base, but they know when I say “Nuh uh uh!” that it’s off limits. That doesn’t always stop them with other stuff, but with the tree there’s not enough dangly things or loud noise-making things to interest them. 

writingcaterpillar

This is exactly the sort of tree that would come to life as a hilariously incompetent sidekick in a 1990s Disney direct-to-video animated sequel. It's perfect for you!

LOL. Frozen 3, or rather...Frozen: Tree. 

col1999

Jolly! On a side note, I am jealous of how deep your window sills are. More specifically, my cats are jealous of how deep your window sills are.

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I am very proud of everyone who went there from the post and commented! 

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As another single person household I am finding myselg grateful for things like skype snd the stream team. It makes being stuck at home easier.

Yeah, quarantine or self-isolation is a very different beast than it was 20 or even 10 years ago. It’s so much easier to stay at least somewhat connected. 

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@copperbadge , my region is just starting to go into serious all-events-and-classes-cancelled mode, but when things start to resume and I go back to circus classes, I'll ask around about the forbidden clown car videos. One coach used to perform for Ringling and one of his friends is a nationally touring clown, so they might have some insider info ��

“When the quarantine is over and I can go back to the circus” is such a great sentiment to reflect on! 

Please do ask if they know of any good videos, I would love to share them. 

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You went to circus camp. Three years in a row. Of *course* you did...

I mean, not a lot of things can explain why I am *hand gesture* this way, but the circus camp definitely had an impact.

It was super fun. It was an arts school that ran summer classes for tweens and teens, and they wanted to make it open not just to athletic kids who could do the gymnastic stuff, or extroverts who wanted to perform, but also kids who were interested in the technical aspects of vaudeville-style entertainment. So you could take “physical circus” (tumbling, balance board, stilts, juggling), clowning (makeup, costuming, physical comedy, a little bit of clowning history), and some ancillary classes like storytelling and oratory. But you could also take prop making (including musical instrument making), basic stage magic and specific prop making for that, set design and building, and “circus management” which was essentially stage managing. You could also, for some reason, take “Cartooning” which was a basic course in single-panel and four-panel comic strips. (I loved Cartooning and Storytelling especially, but I did pretty well in clowning and physical circus too.)

One of the IT guys at the office sent an email to the department managers at our locations all over the country, basically doing a brief survey about the type of equipment in use at each store.

Even though I am not a department manager in a location, I am included in that particular mailing list because I occasionally have to deal directly with each of them in my role at the corporate office.

I would say at least 60% of the 125+ department managers we have throughout the company (I’ll let you do the math) have responded to this particular survey using “Reply-All” so far. As a result, my email alerts would not shut the fuck up all damn day. It’s after 7:00PM and I’m at home, but every once in a while, the new mail alert on my phone will go off for my work account with yet another reply-all email,