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Kclemson

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Likes #puns, #geeky jokes, #tech, my #dogs, reading #scifi & #fantasy #books, #drawing and #painting, #gardening, jokey custom license plates, oxford commas, and maxing out fields with a character length.

I’m a mom of teens, have #ADHD, and lead part of the Excel PM team at Microsoft.

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The weekend just started, but I’m already booked.

Just finished my most recent read (well, listen in this case): Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman. Absolutely loved it, so much heart - 5/5 for me.

On to my next read: The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune.

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It was a good reading weekend. The House in the Cerulean sea was fabulous, and then I moved on to The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue which was incredible.

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@purplepadma I’m still a little choked up after finishing Addie, I loved the whole book but the last 10% in particular was like 🤯 🤩

THITCS was warm, cozy and fun… similar vibe to Legends & Lattes which I also enjoyed.

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My clematis is about to go bananas

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The is is UNREAL to see in my backyard!!

Northern lights

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HOLY SHIT my garden

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@JenMsft I’m still kind of hyperventilating that I got to experience this

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I had a big presentation today at work so I dressed up in my finest formalwear

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To celebrate today, slip some Discworld technical terminology into your social media posts where appropriate:

generative AI = imp-powered

phones = dis-organizers

messages = clacks

kvetching about poorly designed things = blame Bloody Stupid Johnson

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One of the weirdest parts of aging, for me, has been working with people who are at least a decade younger than me who say things that indicate they’re reaching their first threshold of feeling like an old person… every 10-15 or so years at work seems to start a new generation of it.

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Why is it always 'trial by fire', why can't it be 'trial by warm sunny weather with a light breeze'

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You know it was a good Greek salad when you’re still tasting it hours later.

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My mom 60 years ago with an IBM 1401 and me 6 years ago with a DEC PDP-10.

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I always enjoy telling people about my awesome mom. Here she is with some guy she met at a bridge tournament a few years ago.

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A friend I haven’t talked to in years called me tonight because his mom was just diagnosed with stage 4 brain cancer, and he remembered how open I was about what I went through (and how I was an absolute wreck) when my dad died from cancer 11 years ago, just 6 months after he was diagnosed.

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I am so utterly and completely fried after this week that I want to veg in front of a movie that won’t make me think too hard but will make me smile, and might even make me laugh.

Preferably something I’ve seen before but not in a while (so movies from the last 40 years), like comfort food.

Some classics that I enjoy but have rewatched in recent years so don’t want to see again (yet) are Spaceballs, Real Genius, Airplane!, Princess Bride, & Sneakers.

Open to suggestions if anyone has one?

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My son and I are going to see Dune II in the theaters together in a couple of weeks, and I’m really looking forward to it because it’s an opportunity for me to remind him how I was the first person he ever heard say “Atreides nuts”

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In ~2009 I was interviewed on video for something intended to go public, related to this conference we used to have for Microsoft Exchange that was canceled in the early 2000s and was being brought back.

As part of the process for all these behind-the-scenes interviewers, they had a person whose job it was to make us nerds relax on camera.

So the interviewer’s technique for doing this was to tell everyone a joke up front to get them laughing on camera (and get some good b-roll).

1/ 🧵

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So as soon as they mic me up they tell me that’s what they’re going to do.

I (being the mega ADHD person that I am) say “WAIT wait before you do that I have to tell you my favorite joke. So, a pirate walks into a bar with a steering wheel in his pants…”

At this point the ENTIRE ROOM full of production people burst out laughing so goddamn hard it was disconcerting. Like knee slapping, staggering and falling on the floor, waaaaay out of scale reactions. It’s a good joke but not THAT good…

2/

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Eventually the interviewer is able to stop laughing long enough to tell me, while wheezing, through real tears:

“THAT’S THE JOKE WE TELL PEOPLE!!”

/end 🧵

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Oh, for people who don’t know the joke in question:

A pirate walks into a bar with a steering wheel in his pants. The bartender comments on it, and the pirate says “aye, and it’s drivin’ me nuts!”

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<stares at the camera>

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AFFLECK

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Is it time to update the counter, AT&T?

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I asked AI to draw me a picture of a chef’s kiss, and it gave me this screenshot

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