I sit in a cubicle surrounded by other cubicles. I can hear everyone around me.
Recently, there were 2 girls/ladies put into the empty cubes next to me.
These 2 girls do not understand the idea of "cubicle etiquette."
The smells that these girls bring with them to work are insane. If it doesn't smell like strawberry, it smells like baby powder, and if it doesn't smell like baby powder, it smells like coconut, and if it doesn't smell like coconut, it smells like beef stew. I'm freaking out over here.
There is sort of an unspoken rule around here that you shouldn't be intruding into other peoples spaces with your stench. So eat your stinky lunch in the kitchen, and use a non-offensive lotion if you absolutely need to lather up all day long. Chances are that your neighbor doesn't want to smell like Victoria's secret with a side of beef stew when he goes home. The HR lady is really funny about actually telling people this though, so problems like this are always kind of awkward.

One day this week, one girl brought particularly stinky lunch back to her desk. Everyone here smelled it, but no one would say anything to her. I was trying not to say anything too, but then girl #2 arrived at the desk and made some comment about "ooh, that smells good!" And I kind of lost it. I loudly mentioned that it did NOT smell good, and I made some comparisons to some things that I thought it smelled like, and how no one really wanted to sit in that stench. One of the things I compared it to was a dead body (it was a really stinky lunch). Well, it turns out that this girl's mother had just died, and I made her cry.
On one hand, I feel bad about that. But on the other hand, well, I'm not sure how I feel about it. Yes, I sort of flipped my lid a little, but how am I supposed to handle it when things get bad enough that I'm flipping my lid?! I've been here 10 years, and there has never been a smell problem this bad.

Whatever. As it turns out, my comment fixed the problem anyway.

They are dusty and haven't been played in my presence in many years.

Barry Manilow is better than Bonnie Rait because he came up with that "I can't smile without you" song, and that's a really great song. I'm just sayin'.

Ah, office drama. I don't miss it.

That's just bad luck

They are both very talented, I just prefer Bonnie Raitt.

I'm sick of ebay. I'm tired of getting 13,000 matches on a search inquiry, when really it's just 6 different things each listed 2,166 times

Bad luck indeed.
Girl #2 immediately ran to the HR lady to tell her that I'm making the girls cry, and then I got to go in there and explain. Good times.

But seriously, I did fix the problem. No matter how many times you tell me "you can't say that" and "you made her cry," I still fixed the problem for me and everyone else up here.

I actually am not a HUGE fan of either. Bonnie is more my thing than Barry, but I don't really listen to either. That Barry song got into my head when I was a child, and I just love it for some reason (and also "Bless the Beasts and Children" by the Carpenters too....awesome song).

But I saw Bonnie Rait play at the Jazz Fest here a few years back, and she had Stephen Segal on stage with her. And while he CAN actually play some good guitar, he's still Stephen Segal!

Aw man, I've got like 4 posts in this thread today! I'm turning into one of y'all!

OH NOES! 5 posts now! :O

My sister and I used to rock out to this non-stop back in the day, well not on CD tho.


Even though she didn't write it, Bonnie Raitt sings one of my favorite songs ever:

Trivia tidbit: "I Can't Make You Love Me" and "Copacabana" appear in the movie Duets. That there's a good flick.

I have a bunch of vinyl at home but need a new turntable. I think they still make them.

Out of luck once again. The school zone police guy was occupied giving a driver a ticket and thus did not train his radar gun on me.

They do indeed. Costco pretty regularly has one that will also hook up to your computer so that you can easily convert your LPs to MP3 should you wish to do so. I believe the MFG is ION. I think bust-out retail on them is usually over $100...at Costco I've seen them for $75.

I may be wrong about the cost...

You can also just get a regular turntable. Vinyl has a very devoted following...

We got another 16+" of snow yesterday/last night. I have almost 30" of accumulated snow (since Xmas) in my backyard. I haven't ridden in over 3 weeks because the roads here are so cruddy and narrow...with the same amount of traffic, of course. I'm going apeshlitz...

It went back with the bike I returned. I'm going to start looking for a new saddle.. or get padded shorts.

You really should get the padded shorts. While you're at it, I'd suggest getting bib shorts. The Performance Bike Ultra II bibs are a good value for the $$, especially if they're on sale. FYI, today Performance has everything (excluding bikes) for 20% off...for example, the bib shorts are on sale right now for $69.99 (instead of $89.99) and you get another 20% off in the shopping cart for a final cost of $55.99 (if I did the math right)...

https://www.performancebike.com/bikes..._1071114_-1___

That sounds fun. Not.

No snow in the Velo Vol Valley.

I haven't heard this song in ages.

They do still make turntables. New models even have USB ports, so you can store your LPs to digital devices.

With all the soft-rock music for BLR last night, I'm surprised that this one didn't come up...

I've heard bad things about those ION phonographs. Never tried one though.

Let's keep the sappy songs rollin' with a clip from Duets.

It is supposed to be over 60 deg on Sat here. Then highs in the 20's on Monday. I'd better get a ride in on Sat.

It's getting incredibly warm outside here today. I've got my shorts on and gonna go ride as soon as it hits 52. If it gets up to 56, new record high for today!!!