So somehow I've gotten roped into playing on the intramural basketball team for my department here at work ( Read more... )

It's not that I hate my job, because I don't. At least I like the people I work with and I do get to write for a living. I just wish the subject matter I write wasn't... fucking boring ( Read more... )

As time ticks down to June 25th, my last day of work, I'm finding myself in the strange position of having less and less to do. Not having things to do here is a state that has not happened for a very, very long time. But at this point, I'm off-loading my work to the people who will cover for my mat leave (is it wrong I'm kinda impressed with ( Read more... )

One of our applications that I write about deals with things called 'job boxes'. Basically, you specify a job to be run in batch (using our other, various applications), and off this application goes and does it for you. Needless to say, the words 'job box' are very ubiquitous in the manual ( Read more... )

Just a few things today ( Read more... )

Jet's at home sick today (sigh, a week and a bit into Grade 1 and he's already home sick), so I had to leave work early because the ex had to be somewhere at 3 and needed to drop Jet off to me. No problem really. With only four of us in my department now, we said we required laptops with all the applications on them that we need so we could have ( Read more... )

I'm back at work today after my month long sabbatical. I don't really want to be back. It's not that I hate work, it's just that... I can find SO many other things I'd rather be doing. And I did. I really didn't have one moment of boredom during my month off. Overall, it was spectacular ( Read more... )

At this point, I've finished everything I have to have done today; last edits back to the co-worker in Vienna, the help system for the product shipping today does indeed work (thanks to co-worker Andy, who was also the one who mucked it up in the first place...) so I'm now just killing time till I leave in half an hour ( Read more... )

Feels like its been awhile since I've been here. So what's been going on ( Read more... )

I swear, the only time I post to this thing half the time anymore is to complain I'm busy. (hmm, that nearly made no sense, but I'm leaving it anyway ( Read more... )