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Well, that's one way to get a visit from HR.

Around seven years ago, I went ahead and changed the settings in Facebook for a certain group of friends. You can set it up so that you do not have to see their posts without unfriending them. They can still like and comment on the posts I choose to allow them to see. Makes using the service easier even if the FB algorithm has since made the app virtually unusable.

It is rather convenient that Derick frames his response like the Duggar kids were going to a regular in-person school and not being homeschooled.

Death Rattle being some well-known play that has been around for decades does account for the whole changing it to a musical seemingly overnight. It's old enough for it to be in the public domain, so Oliver could change it without getting the playwright's or playwright's estate's permission. I also noticed the original production was 3 hours long. No wonder Maxime was bored out of her mind. There's nothing in the plot of the play to warrant that runtime.

Jerry tells Oliver that his husband left him after he got fired from Death Rattle. That detail doesn't really mesh with the womanizer Loretta described.

I saw the official GBBO Tik-Tok account has already pounced on Nicky's beaver cake. Those clips had me rolling, and were very reminiscent of the SNL sketch with Betty White and her muffins.

In one of the earlier episodes, Mabel said she had 4 weeks to find a new place after her apartment sold. Then we see the new owner had moved in, and I think that was before Oliver mentions opening night is in 2 weeks. So, the season has covered at least 5 weeks if not more.

Using the word "bestie" is also not a Gen X thing. It's more millennial, and yes, grown women do refer to their BFFs as bestie on social media.

I also get the feeling there is another crime happening that has yet to be exposed. Season One had the murder of Tim as the overarching crime plus finding out about how Zoe died and Teddy Dimas's theft ring. Season Two had the murder of Bunny plus we find out about the pervy architect who built all those tunnels plus the whole Charles's dad/Rose Cooper painting thing. This season all we have after nine episodes is the death of Ben. It's been too straightforward and I need a twist. I still think Donna and Cliff are up to something else. Nothing about Death Rattle makes sense from a business perspective. The play as written was a stinker from the beginning. Donna fires the first director and hires Oliver, a man who has not staged a successful play or musical in years. It seems like everyone on the cast knows the play is shit, and are only going through the motions to collect their paychecks. Donna may threaten to pull the plug on the production after Ben dies, but it takes very little from Cliff for her to agree to continue. There's something going on here. On another note, I miss the podcast fans this season. Where's Marv and the gang? Are they still selling podcast merch?

As a longtime fan of Three Amigos, I see no need for (yes, a plethora).

While I love the reveal that Ben's Five Whores are actually his sewing circle and that quilt is perfection, I wish the craft was crochet and it would have been Ben's Five Hookers.

As a Rust Belt broad living in the South, I will borrow some Southern phrases. "Fixin to" is great and versatile. I do draw the line at "the-ater" for theater/re. That one is nails on chalkboard for me. I also have to watch myself from not using the words and phrases of my youth down here. I drink pop not soda, use a pen not an ink pen, and it's a crick not a creek.

I want to know what Jill is drinking there. Something straight up in a coupe, but the color is what is throwing me. I don't see Jill imbibing on any brown liquor.

Her God of Cake story will never not be funny. It's one of those stories I read when I need a laugh and I also think about randomly. Ditto the one in her second book involving Allie sneaking into her neighbor's house and steal random stuff.

There is My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Toula is a late bloomer and that is never played for laughs, just something that happens when you are an introvert in a loud family. And, her transformation is one she chooses to do for herself and not to get the guy. I do love that Ian remembers her old self at the diner, "I don't remember Frump Girl, but I do remember you."

Did they still sedate you with propofol? That would have been why they wanted the test.

I've heard that there is a new prescription drug for colonoscopy prep that is easier to digest than the standard gallon of GoLytely plus stool softener, and guess which sex gets this prescribed and which one gets the GoLytely?

For me those days are in the rearview mirror (can't eat a big meal after 9pm anymore). I would make sure you know of somewhere close to the facility with a drive thru for you to stop. I was my mom's driver when she last got hers, and she was hilarious. She housed her sandwich in less than 5 minutes. After her meal, she proceeded to take a long nap as the drugs wore off.

Do you remember when you were younger and stayed out all night up until your state's legal last call and you drunkenly stumbled into Waffle House or Denny's and how you were so hungry you could eat a horse? Because that is what he will be after the procedure.

In my experience as a pharmacy tech, they have different printouts listing the instructions for morning and afternoon appointments. There's too much information for them to verbally tell a patient and hope said patient remembers. They gave your boyfriend the wrong printout by mistake. I have seen some offices where they use one, but take the time to write out and circle all the pertinent information. With instructions like this, you write them clearly and specifically and list every single detail assuming the dumbest person you have ever met can understand them. Because there is nothing worse for the facility and the patient to have them do all that prep and show up for the procedure to find out the patient messed up by eating past whatever time or drinking the wrong flavor of Gatorade with red dye and therefore the procedure cannot happen.

Yeah, the doctor's staff gave you their instructions for a morning procedure and not an afternoon one. And, colonoscopy prep is so varied you cannot easily Google to get the afternoon instructions. I swear every single practice has their own version of prep.

Unless its Law and Order: Special Victims Unit. There you will find the local cops always step aside for St. Olivia and her team no matter where the suspect is hiding. One episode this past season had Olivia send her detective to Massachusetts to investigate a murder that happened at least a decade before in Texas.

No Bloody Marys is a crisis, not a first world problem especially because you have no ice. I need ice in my drinks including water.

People looking to get their book on the NYT bestseller list will find a bookstore that reports to the Times (sometimes done by cold calling bookstores) and order hundreds or even thousands of copies of said book through that bookstore before the book is released. On release day, the sale goes through and the number of copies sold is reported to thr Times. The book will then appear on the bestseller list for one week with a dagger next to it. The dagger denotes the presence of bulk sales for all to see. And then the book promptly falls off the bestseller list. Also, those who made these bulk purchases (at full retail) are stuck with them.

Hardcover non-fiction. It's also #2 on the combined print/ebook nonfiction list.