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klozitshoper wrote:Hi everyone. Feel much better Poof.

Son in law news - seems odd to be glad that someone is going to be able to go on chemo, but as you know, he has not been able to do so for a couple of months due to high liver counts, was losing a tremendous amount of weight, and was in a lot of pain. Things are looking up in that chemo can start again in a week (hope all of the necessary scans will not disclose new growth), pain in under control, and his appetite is back and he has gained 10 lbs. Yeah. Oh, yes, being happy about weight gain is another oddity to me but in these circumstances . . . .

Thank you one and all for your good thoughts and prayers for him. His prognosis is still the same, but hopefully, he will have a quality of life that will enable him to go and do and feel pretty well again. I am very grateful for your good wishes and so is he.

Sounds like good news. Continuing thoughts and prayers.

Afternoon, folks!

dontwantaname wrote:What time is the cutoff for evening?

I dunno; you've always determined it.

dontwantaname wrote:What time is the cutoff for evening?

try around sunset, see if that works.

Evenin' folks! how y'all are?

Gatzby wrote:Heh, different bars have different nights... sometimes it's a locals only vibe, other times, well, it's the fist-pumping crowd. =P

Pick a good one for tonight if that is your agenda!! Stop in on an hourly basis to give us a report!! :}

dontwantaname wrote:I would think that working from home all the time is boring.
Although in ny, where 2 to 3 hours a day commute is normal, and you may very well be standing that entire time....will maybe home isn't bad.

And you've had what? Two adult aged jobs?

Gatzby wrote:It's more complicated than just clicking buttons. Having been a remote employee for, say... 4? 5? Years of my tenure at woot!, before moving into the office, I can say there's a distinct difference.

Bottom line is, it's easier to get work done if you can run by a developer cube yelling, "THE SKY IS FALLING! HELP US ALL! WE'RE DOOMED!"

Until they beat you with sticks. =\

Take away their sticks.

On the tax thing...there is sn amazon distribution center just down the road. So there!

dontwantaname wrote:I would think that working from home all the time is boring.
Although in ny, where 2 to 3 hours a day commute is normal, and you may very well be standing that entire time....will maybe home isn't bad.

I've worked from home on and off for the last 10 years. It does get boring, but it is nice as well. I like being able to have flexibility, to roll out of bed and work for a bit. Too shower in the afternoon in the hot summer. It's also distracting if something needs tidying. It gets lonely and you have to make a point to go out. I am more productive if I can have quiet - which is why my last office worked out well - I was almost always alone. It's nice to not have to work and to wander offices to chat and bounce ideas or go to coffee social too, I do miss those things. It's also nice to go ask a stupid question for something you forgot to write down instead of drafting an email. For Orc, because of his hearing issue, online is actually easier, because most people just aren't tolerant enough to accommodate someone with a hearing disability, no matter how good they are at what they do. Think of all the jokes of women loosing it with their husbands for not listening while watching football...

Klozit - I'm so glad for the good news! I hope all stays stable for the week. I know how unpredictably that can go.

On the Amazon issue - I've heard the tax thing may be changing as many states want tax revenue from Amazon. I can't blame them, we do quite a bit of shopping out of state, mostly because our only option locally for common household items is Walmart and that doesn't offer much choice. Other small towns have the same problem.

Gatzby wrote:It's more complicated than just clicking buttons. Having been a remote employee for, say... 4? 5? Years of my tenure at woot!, before moving into the office, I can say there's a distinct difference.

Bottom line is, it's easier to get work done if you can run by a developer cube yelling, "THE SKY IS FALLING! HELP US ALL! WE'RE DOOMED!"

Until they beat you with sticks. =\

I'd stay in the cube if I were you.

dontwantaname wrote:I would think that working from home all the time is boring.
Although in ny, where 2 to 3 hours a day commute is normal, and you may very well be standing that entire time....will maybe home isn't bad.

I looove working at home. No one expects something of me before 9 a.m. and I can work at midnight. I can do laundry, fix dinner, all that stuff. I can go to lunch with friends or talk on the phone for an hour. Downside - you have a seven-day workweek. If the work's sitting there, you don't say, well, it's Saturday, I'll wait till Monday. You could, but you're thinking about it then, so might as well do it.

Re : the Amazon tax thing...

I get updates constantly - and Amazon is in half of them. Some view them as great for standing up against the nexus rules. Others view them as a bully trying to skirt charging tax where they should.

They are kind of leading things right now - if states can get them to charge tax by working deals with them, then expect it to be more common.

Hurts the smaller online retailers rather than them. seems to me, Amazon is so big that it isn't as much of a burden for them to collect the tax and report it, than it would be for a small online seller who truly only has a presence in one state.

//end of job related post//

Hi all! Nephew went home early (today instead of tomorrow). Niece is at work. I'm all ALONE!!! BWAHAHA!!!!

pooflady wrote:I'd stay in the cube if I were you.

I'm not sure if that is completely safe. Developers can do things to computers without needing you to move an inch

pooflady wrote:I looove working at home. No one expects something of me before 9 a.m. and I can work at midnight. I can do laundry, fix dinner, all that stuff. I can go to lunch with friends or talk on the phone for an hour. Downside - you have a seven-day workweek. If the work's sitting there, you don't say, well, it's Saturday, I'll wait till Monday. You could, but you're thinking about it then, so might as well do it.

Ain't that ever the truth.

kdccrosby wrote:Re : the Amazon tax thing...

I get updates constantly - and Amazon is in half of them. Some view them as great for standing up against the nexus rules. Others view them as a bully trying to skirt charging tax where they should.

They are kind of leading things right now - if states can get them to charge tax by working deals with them, then expect it to be more common.

Hurts the smaller online retailers rather than them. seems to me, Amazon is so big that it isn't as much of a burden for them to collect the tax and report it, than it would be for a small online seller who truly only has a presence in one state.

//end of job related post//

Hi all! Nephew went home early (today instead of tomorrow). Niece is at work. I'm all ALONE!!! BWAHAHA!!!!

Very true! My mom is an Amazon Marketplace seller now, if they passed down the tax stuff for her to deal with they would probably have to bring on a tax specialist and that would make it completely unprofitable for them. As it is they don't make a lot of money anyway. They had to stop carrying some products they used to carry in their retail setting because the manufacturers didn't want them on Amazon. The store they used to be next to used Amazon to supplement their income, it was the only way their brick and mortar stayed open as long as it did.

Yay for quiet time! The girls just got up from their quiet time here. Not being too loud yet.

This must be what it was like for acemom when she checked out.

AZGman wrote:This must be what it was like for acemom when she checked out.

I'm sorry Gman. I just didn't have anything to add to your earlier conversation with Lynn. That and my brain is scatter-y more than usual today so I'm checking in with dname consistency.

AZGman wrote:This must be what it was like for acemom when she checked out.

What do you base this on?

pooflady wrote:What do you base this on?

I was assuming it was the lack of conversation when he was around. Maybe there is more to it that I am completely missing.

ThunderThighs wrote:Heh, there's only the one workshop baby here. All the others are in Seattle.

The job comes with built in babysitting? hmmm...

dontwantaname wrote:Do you like rain?

You are asking TT if she wants to go back to Seattle, when she's told us several times she's a Texas girl?

I think I asked this before, but didn't write it down. Can you email something from FB to someone who's not on FB?

ThunderThighs wrote:I will say that my heart got all melty when mom put kiddo down on the driveway and he ran to me all giggly. First time I'd seen him walk.

Best be careful, don't want son to know your ready to be grandma.