So you’re saying I should have also bought a lottery ticket today?! Darn it! 🎰

TIL that my annual leave payout is still being processed. On the plus side, the email reply from talent management came the same day I asked, which is a new and exciting development.

I think they were dead for a different (explainable) reason but it made me think hard about what happens if more go away.

I’d have to dig back but they were OCADS related, specifically SOCAT I think.

Our town is filthy with ‘em. And they’re all a little suspect. And none of them play my ringtone.

True confession: Years ago I made this my cell phone ringtone.

However! RZA did an upgrade/antidote! Because Wu-Tang is for the children. One of my favorite stories: www.cnn.com/2020/08/14/e...

I know! I want everyone to realize though that it’s literally not a failing of everyday people in the agencies to not know every minor detail about these bills, bc they’re busy trying to “keep the patient alive” from everything else done to the agencies to date.

Here’s the first page of our new article on the value of NOAA to the United States, which starts on page ~175~ of this free PDF book.

In the business, posting a full page of text with refs and footnotes as part of a giant PDF is called a ~teaser~

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