The day was starting out so well. My folks arrived Monday from New York, they had a nice couple of days enjoying my hospitality, and I saw them off to catch a boat to the islands. I went to work, started to get things organized, and then my office-mate asked for help with something ( Read more... )

Lots happening. My job is pulling up stakes and moving to a new building (closer to my apartment, which is nice). People are still getting hit with stressful workloads. People continue to blow up. (Thankfully, it's not daily any more, but I can't remember a week this year in which there wasn't some blow-up or other. The week I was away for ( Read more... )

The past week has been busy - family visiting from New York for a couple of weeks, so that's pretty much chewed up my off-hours. Work was quiet, then got busy; it hasn't gotten crazy, and I hope that holds.

Grinding away at a project for which I don't have a deadline. Given Murphy's Law, I can only assume this means that there is a deadline, ( Read more... )

Been doing a lot of things. Work's gone from dead calm to bonkers in the space of a few hours (busy, not crazy, I should clarify). Naturally, this hit about the same time I went on a cleaning jag in my apartment, so I've ended up with a pile of empty boxes in my living room that I've got to haul down to the lobby and out to the corner, assuming ( Read more... )

Vacation was very nice. Getting up at half-past stupid o'clock on Christmas Day was unpleasant, but it allowed me to arrive in New York practically at midday - and since people don't usually designate Christmas Day itself as a travel day, the Van Wyck Expressway, the Grand Central Parkway, and the FDR Drive were almost entirely free of traffic - ( Read more... )

( My right eye was missing in my dream last night. )

Some days, the office environment is nice and collegial. Some days, it's like a war zone ( Read more... )

When the most interesting thing to happen in two weeks is a seventy-three hour three-day weekend, that's a sign that things are quiet, I suppose. The calendar lined up just about right, apparently, so that the end of daylight savings time in Greece (and the attendant extra hour) coincided with October 28, "Okhi Day" or "No Day", the anniversary of ( Read more... )

The big news here in Greece recently has involved a borderline-insane radical fringe party that saw an upswing in popularity, overestimated the leeway it gave them to play fast and loose with the accepted norms of society, and are currently in several flavors of deep trouble ( Read more... )

Blasting loud music into my ears as a defense mechanism gets old. So after finishing a task for work, I did a bit of mathematics.

Specifically, I tried to think of a rough correlation between the extent to which someone resorts to screaming and bully tactics, and the extent to which I will take them seriously.

It looks a little bit like this:

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