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Quite a few of our faculty tried to get exceptions, because they believed it would affect performance (true) or they didn't like the monitoring, but over on the Medical School side, that's a non-starter - too much patient data that could possibly be stolen from a laptop or phone. We require encryption and backups.

With the pushing, crowds, and early hours, it's pretty equivalent. Probably worse for your husband - I hated waiting in corrals, creeping towards the start, and then people behind me taking off in a flash, as I thought "whoa people, 13 miles to go."

It's really more the abuse and cycles you put on it - we have backup and encryption requirements that really drain the life on the machines (although as a side note, I purchased my last MacBook pro after the three year term to use as my personal computer, and it's operating just fine, ONCE i took all the backup and encryption software off.)

I'm more annoyed it's October. September went by in a blur. Now we start the countdown to our winter break in December!

The funny thing is where I work, we would love to have the Lenovo contract back. We're buying Dells and the failure rate is kinda atrocious just in my office alone. *hugs her MacBook Pro harder*

I am half tempted to get an Alexa and the Samuel L Jackson add on voice, explicit version.

I had an aunt once wrap it inside a box with rocks to deceive you.

Good thoughts for you - resilience comes in many forms, I hope that it will guide you through this year.

I need August to end so I can get to September and my work life can calm down for two seconds.

So for those of you who heavily use the Whole Foods app with your prime account connected, if you spent at least $10, you get $10 to spend on Prime Day. Seriously, Whole Foods savings is subsidizing my prime account at this rate.

I've been asked to quite a few random census surveys lately. They are the american community survey, where they get more detailed information on demographics in areas. Then we received follow up surveys, targeting those who I think completed the ACS and noted they were a college graduate, asking even more detailed info. I filled them out (even without threat of penalty) as one of the groups I work with does research on the data (de-identified, obviously, trying to look at trends through all the data sets to explain changes in society.) Good times. Please do these surveys.

I have one from a day conference I attended. The concept is great - the quality of the one I got was eh - they're kinda flimsy (necessary in order to fold into the pouch.) If you're not bringing anything heavy AND not overstuffing it, it's a good beach backpack.

And if you all say "and get the bags in pink!" I'll tear my hair out.

ding ding ding.

I really wonder how their cost analysis works on moving it to one day. Some of my deliveries are done by what I swear are doordash or uber drivers between trips - not UPS or USPS - and I wonder if that is keeping their costs down. Me: Just don't change my Whole Foods discounts.

I can't believe it's halfway through April. I thought this year just started.

I'm a few days late, but Happy Lunar New Year! May the Year of the Pig bring you good fortune and prosperity.

Ok, so at 8am i started writing a RIP Sears post, and now I see they will survive for now.

I don't go back til Monday! I'm gonna enjoy the quiet in the malls and restaurants for a few days!

Happy new year! And a float was on fire in the Rose Parade.

THREE MORE WEEKS OF WORK THIS YEARRRRRRRR.

Wait, my GD bags are 10 years old? I still use them when I go to Costco. (i've since purchased machine washable reusable bags for the grocery store.)

We don't have any in the charts, but I suspect Amazon may put up a few as a deal over the course of the day.

On the Black Friday Charts: Best Buy: 249.99 Meijer: $399 - get $100 off future purchase Target: $249 Shopko has a refurbished one for 119.99 but we do not know the specs.

Oooh. I insured my engagement ring, because I'm terrified of this happening as well.