No drugs today. Yay. But stuck in all day meetings which were more like mini-let's-not-panic sessions. I think half of my job right now is calming people down to get them to focus. Eventually I sent some notes to the leaders of the committee after I had some quiet time by myself to think about what we were trying to accomplish and laid out my ( Read more... )

The day was very busy at work, trying to calm people down, and trying to keep up with demands for information. The calming part is the harder bit, especially as we discover things where other offices have fucked up paperwork that can affect application of 47's memoranda. Ugh ( Read more... )

I've been telling people at work to just focus on the small tasks they have to get done and not try to encompass the entirety of all the new orders coming down the pike; that way lies madness. Like trying to follow the entirety of social media, it's just not possible ( Read more... )

After sort of being in remission the head cold the husband gave me last week came roaring back this morning. That or it's a new things on top of the other thing from someone at one of the rest areas on the way home. Who knows. Still managed to straighten some things in my office and catch up on a few comics, but otherwise was pretty much a lump for ( Read more... )

The drive down wasn't too bad, just shy of nine hours. The various highway departments from Massachusetts down to Maryland did a good job of clearing the snow and keeping the roads free of hazards, which made the drive down pretty good. Not much use of cruise control this time because there was more traffic, but at least the roads were in good ( Read more... )

We feds got a message today from the outgoing president about how much he appreciated our work. Well, 46, if you appreciated it so much why did you limit our pay raise this year to 2% instead of matching the military's at 4.5%, as is customary? For someone who claimed he was a champion for labor he sure didn't show it. Of course, neither did 44, ( Read more... )

The drive up to Massachusetts wasn't bad. We made good time, and only really hit traffic when we got to the Boston I-95 beltway during rush hour, and even then the maps app had taken that into account with the timing. Checked in, all good. Got an upgrade to a "suite" because we walked into our first room and there were a handful of tools (think ( Read more... )

Uneventful day at work, which was fine by me. The husband and I are headed up to Massachusetts tomorrow morning for a couple of days, so we've been doing the light packing required. Mine is a little heavier than normal because I have to take my work laptop for a video meeting with my little cohort from the training I attended back in early December ( Read more... )

Commuted to work, Metro was behaving. Got to pull out one of my favorite wah-wah court quotes ("However, nowhere does our Constitution extol the virtue of efficiency and nowhere does it command that all our laws be fiscally wise." Guadamuz v. Ash, 368 F. Supp. 1233, 1243 (D.D.C., 1973)). Was in the context of telling someone that it didn't matter ( Read more... )

I had rough plans with a friend this weekend while the husband is down at MAL, but as usual with this friend a house emergency came up (leaking roof this time) so I'm flying solo. I told the husband I looked forward to him complaining about the number of comics I'll read this weekend (complaining because he then has to sort and file them all at ( Read more... )