Our new I.T. / Project Manager was to arrive today. His first name was Darcy but my urges to call him "Mr. Darcy" were not hindered by the fact that, for quite a time, noone could tell us what his last name was ( Read more... )

My sister-in-law is off in England, my wife has safely arrived in Oregon for the weekend and I have tomorrow off work. I have the house to myself for the whole weekend! Time for parties! Drinking! Decadence and Debauchery! Playing World of Warcraft and Programming in Perl! Err... OK, so I'm not very good at this. I'm sure I'll survive though ( Read more... )

( Cut for piteous whining. )

( Cut for bitchiness. )

Interesting conversation this morning ( Read more... )

The designers in the set of cubicles near mine have interesting tastes in decoration. For quite a long time (since before I joined) they have had a large number of witchdoctor masks made out of egg cartons and various office supplies. Today I noticed another addition however: A small box attached to the wall with two peeps in it, each holding ( Read more... )

People (hoshikage and Mandi) arrived yesterday and were herded homewards. sakon76 is still feverish and flu-like and doesn't seem to be rapidly improving ( Read more... )

( At work )