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Last week, someone at work said, "I don't think we're going to have a fall this year; it's just going to go right from summer to winter."

I found this statement baffling, but kept my mouth shut because I'm already the "difficult one" at work, and I wasn't willing to make that worse by arguing about weather words. Besides, that's what the internet is for!

So, coworker who was totally wrong about the weather, but still a great person: this *is* fall. And yeah, every year is a little different, but I don't think this one is super weird. We've had cold days and hot days, sunny days and rainy days. The leaves are changing color. It's fall! (My favorite season, so let's not have any more talk about skipping it!)

(PS: In other somewhat humorous work news, we got a policy announcement back in mid-September that may or may not limit our ability to work from home on a non-work computer, among other things. I asked my boss about it. She had not considered this implication. She said she would look into it. I have heard nothing about it since.)

So, my workplace is actually spread out over four (relatively close) separate buildings. And things change a lot, as things do, so people move around with some frequency between these buildings. Not just ‘visiting for a meeting’ but ‘my desk is now at a different mailing address’ moving. Which makes the fact that the team I’m on hasn’t moved in three years pretty unusual.

Is it because the company has a deep respect for our work and doesn’t want to disrupt a functional dynamic? Nope. It’s because the phones at our desks are linked into a phone queue, and no one knows how to change it.

Not kidding. Whoever set up the phones that way in the first place has since left the company, and the tech itself is old enough that the supplier no longer supports it. Every phone that was originally linked to the queue still is, even when they are being used by other teams. (Those people just have to be really careful with their settings to make sure they don’t get a customer service call.)

Which is all a very long way of saying — we’re getting a new phone system, and that means all of a sudden moving is looking a lot more likely.

A coworker introduced me to the Chrome extension Tabby Cat, and it has changed my work life for the better.

Each time you open a new tab in chrome, it opens with a picture of a cat, instead of the ‘most visited sites’ tiles. Best part is they have adorable names, like ‘Teeny Casper’ and ‘Peach Bebop.’ (Apparently you can do things with them? I have not figured out that aspect. Usually I’m chortling at the name and then getting on with whatever work I was supposed to be doing when I opened the new tab.)

Cats, man. So fluffy. Much cute.

There’s a scene early in ‘Rise of the Guardians’ — North makes a little ice train (that can fly!), and a yeti bursts into his workshop and the door hits the train. North and the yeti exchange pained noises a couple times (PS it’s hilarious).

Anyway, that’s pretty much the exact noise I made when I saw that AO3 will be down for maintenance for two hours today. If you, like me, maintain your sanity at work by having an AO3 tab open in the background (it’s part of my tab rotation! a perfectly legitimate way to schedule work flow!), take note of your time zone and plan accordingly!

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