Can The Adults Please Smoke? 36 and Living Well... — Page 159

The QE2? Wow - what a great trip! I'm going to Rome next June, but going via boring plane. I'd rather be on a ship - for many reasons!

Did some retail therapy yesterday. I figured it was my duty since the local economy is impacted by the government shutdown. I'm only thinking of others, you know.

You're doing it on purpose, aren't you?

It sounds like a lovely trip, Boobs. Whatever ship they're on.



(Technically, it's the third Cunard ship named Queen Elizabeth, but there's no number for this one. She's simply named Queen Elizabeth, like the first one, which was in service from 1940 - 1968. She was destroyed by a fire in Hong Kong Harbor in 1972 while undergoing conversion to a floating University. The QE2 was in service from 1969 - 2008, and is now docked in Dubai. Plans to convert her into a floating hotel (like the original Queen Mary in Long Beach CA) have never gone through, and her fate is undetermined although it seems likely she'll be sold to be broken up and scrapped.

Cunard currently has three Queens in service: Queen Mary 2, the flagship, Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth. Only the QM has a number attached. )

I just can't help myself.

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Updated On: 10/15/13 at 08:21 AM

And I reiterated his designation on purpose to see if you'd catch it.

LOL oh it's him. Hopefully he won't miss the ship because he's looking for the QE2. I believe his wife is a little sharper.

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Baby HC is adorable.

A Tuesday full of meetings, and an evening hopefully of another Dodger win.

Work work work, then a wee bit of play (not going to the game, though friends are).

Baby HC and my daughter have similar cheeks!

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They are serious cheeks!

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Updated On: 10/15/13 at 11:50 AM

Good morning to you all!

Don't they put people in jail who spread germs in Singapore?

Buy a cane and keep it next to your desk. Just a warning...

Bad day yesterday, and probably round two today. A good friend got let go - she knew it was eventually coming, but the way it was done, UGH. Dodgers lost. Work today is all going to be about the layoff, and I have to balance my role as a friend with that of a company attorney. Double Ugh.

I am trying to get her to see the upside of the situation, but the way it was handled makes me question whether this is a company I want to work for, or at least care about.

When it comes down to it, regardless of the buzz words, and relationship building, big business is all business. Even if, like this woman, you had worked for the company for over 30 years.

Its a long story. She needed a couple more years to get bridge benefits. She basically started right out of college and is two years shy of retiree health benefits (which you get between age 55 and Medicare eligibility). It was just handled poorly by those in charge, and makes me that much happier that I will be moving to a different function away from many of these people. My own little universe is fine, but some of the other galaxies are quite messed up.