The Complaint Thread

docsilence said:
So UPDATE: Partner says we gotta cancel because the airline is desperately trying to get people to cancel. Two options: push it back a week or move it to the spring. Pushing it back one week makes me want to shoot myself in the head because I've got three jobs and rescheduling a vacation is a nightmare. Pushing it to the spring makes me feel like I'm letting her down. Also who knows if we'll be allowed to cross borders in March of 2026, right? We're a plague ship. So my morning will be deciding how badly to ruin our vacation plans.
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Do you not work from home? Take a longer vacation and work from vacation. Then never come back to the US because.. you know.. ~gestures vaguely~
 
Damien said:
Do you not work from home? Take a longer vacation and work from vacation. Then never come back to the US because.. you know.. ~gestures vaguely~
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That would've been possible two years ago, but I picked up work for a sanctuary city and do pop into City Hall a few times a week now on top of the book stuff and my writing/consulting work. I could just do the consulting stuff from anywhere (my funniest memory of living in Ireland is running around Dublin trying to find wifi for a conference call and literally taking a call in an empty pub at 11 a.m. with a Guinness in my hand). The city work is fuxxing me up. Though it's also the most ethical organization I've ever worked for.

EDIT: And Steph's decided to push the trip to the spring because rearranging our lives next week is too much stress and who the fuck knows if we'll even have any air traffic controllers a week from now. I feel like this is somehow my fault because I wasn't looking forward to the flight and I somehow asked the universe to fuck up our vacation, even though logically I know that's impossible.
 
docsilence said:
I feel like this is somehow my fault because I wasn't looking forward to the flight and I somehow asked the universe to fuck up our vacation, even though logically I know that's impossible.
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You shut your face or I will shut it for you.
 
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docsilence said:
Logically I know this is impossible, but this is why that one line from Sons of Anarchy is one of my favorite single line deliveries in TV History, Tommy Flanagan's character saying "I was raised Catholic, everything's a worry for me." My brain will invent shit to be guilty about.
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Yeah, that really resonates hard.
 
Nothing to apologize for, doc! Very kind of you to think of her in this time, but you deserve to have a good start to your vacation too, and there's nothing worse than starting off what's supposed to be relaxing, special time on a sour note. Don't know where I am on the spiritual spectrum, but I do often think everything happens for a reason, and for whatever reason, life is telling you now ain't the time. But it's great that the airline is giving you the out and you're not just forfeiting the money. Now it'll be even more special when it does happen!
 
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