working girls

bitches in the workplace: i have to rant. today, i'm very thankful that i work primarily with men. the women on my team and my extended team are good to work with too. but i really can't stand it when women take rejection in the workplace as a personal issue. while your idea may not have been ultimately approved or even may have been modified, you need to not take it personally. stop bad mouthing your colleagues to your subordinates, your manager, or anyone else you want to vent to. it's not professional, it only affects your reputation and it's just bitchy. grow a set and pull your big girl panties up.

netflix: bbfe and i have decided to give netflix another go. we've had our own accounts before and generally he liked it. i got tired of the poor turn around in the area i lived in beforehand so i cancelled it. well, we've signed up and so far, i'm impressed. we signed up this past sunday and two days ago (tuesday) received our first three movies in the mail. we also purchased and 'on demand' player box. we received it yesterday and are generally impressed. my only issue is that the length of the power cord is actually on the short side. so i had to re-engineer a few electronics. we easily loaded movies into our instant queue and were able to watch them immediately. the movie availability is pretty good but it's light on new releases. hopefully popularity of the option with netflix will grow and thus prod the additional of more movies to the on demand options. fingers crossed.

plumbing: and have i mentioned the frozen pipe we had? well, luckily nothing worse happened and it thawed out pretty quickly. unfortunately we have these lame supply lines from the pipe to our faucets. they have a shut off valve unique to virginia, i guess and are 'self healing'. so every time you touch it, the healing stuff loosens up and you get leaks. we're still trying to let the lines re-heal and in the mean time have a bucket brigade. oh well. the joys of homeownership i guess.