There is this nutty situation that has developed at work. We’re supposed to have a meeting at our discretion. For the past two weeks we have been in situations where we have the time but not the people and other situations where we have the people but not the time.

I just got a shipment of books in a plain padded envelope with a label glued on it instead of a box with the books shrink-wrapped to a piece of cardboard with air baggies filling up the rest of the space. I did not recognize the package. So if the [...]