The bite-ness of command

[serinde]

As some of the Gentle Readers know, there have been a fair amount of layoffs around these parts in the past week (that's what all my cryptic hand-wringing was about, yes). So the suckage is large and multi-faceted, but another aspect--minor in the grand scheme of things, but of more direct personal application--becoming visible is that I'm now much more likely to miss aikido for reasons of coverage: not just phone coverage in my section, but having someone in Authority around, as class time is roughly when the Office Mom is usually en route, and Brian is usually just waking up. (Mr. Networks is generally in, but if he is at lunch or running errands or whatnot, as today, it is not helpful.)