Out today
Working today from the Panera Bread office, after having a nice lunch at home with efbq and suecochran. The actual office has been rather atrocious of late, with a PHB taking exception to me not looking like I'm working hard enough. (I've delivered everything as asked, and it's all been acknowledged as superior to what they have...I just dared to be doing things like taking incoming cel phone calls.) Whatever. I've invested in a boss button. That should be good enough.
The Exchange, thank Alvin, will not be operating on the "appearance-is-reality" bullshit paradigm. I actually got in the supervisor's face about it, just a bit: those organizations which value appearance over reality are those who will achieve only the appearance of success in their mission. They will in fact fail. Reality will trump appearance every time.
Speaking of The Exchange - and, ironically, of appearances - I have a fairly solid idea of a logo at this point, and need to work with a graphic artist to develop something in electronic format. This is becoming vital, as I need to have business cards and other handouts. If anyone out there is good at creating something that doesn't necessarily look as if it was made with Word, and will work fairly cheap, please contact me soonest.
In other news, first place again last night at Trivia Night, with a score of 109* - hoooo, yesh! - and Volpone rehearsal tonight. Also, received wedding certificates from the church for the ceremony on Friday, bought my train ticket to get there, and contacted the P.G. County clerk's office to review the rules thereof (thank you, efbq, as me making the arrangements from work was engendering some of the nonsense listed above).
Also, still mulling over whether to re-up with LJ. Their latest olive branch is offering permanent accounts and promising a portion of sales to good organizations, such as the EFF and some group which is opposing child exploitation. All fine, but they haven't yet defined their policies, and have still held out that there are some accounts they are "unwilling to host". No, I'm not under the impression that my journal would be one of them; it's strictly a matter of principle.
* Final questions: At 6' 0", name the shortest man ever to be named Most Valuable Player in the NBA. Then the second category, "Celebrities": The first was Joanne Woodward, in 1960; the latest was Cole Porter, last month. What is "it"? (Somewhat poorly worded, but Rick figured that more info would probably give it away. As was, we were the only team to get it...)
The Exchange, thank Alvin, will not be operating on the "appearance-is-reality" bullshit paradigm. I actually got in the supervisor's face about it, just a bit: those organizations which value appearance over reality are those who will achieve only the appearance of success in their mission. They will in fact fail. Reality will trump appearance every time.
Speaking of The Exchange - and, ironically, of appearances - I have a fairly solid idea of a logo at this point, and need to work with a graphic artist to develop something in electronic format. This is becoming vital, as I need to have business cards and other handouts. If anyone out there is good at creating something that doesn't necessarily look as if it was made with Word, and will work fairly cheap, please contact me soonest.
In other news, first place again last night at Trivia Night, with a score of 109* - hoooo, yesh! - and Volpone rehearsal tonight. Also, received wedding certificates from the church for the ceremony on Friday, bought my train ticket to get there, and contacted the P.G. County clerk's office to review the rules thereof (thank you, efbq, as me making the arrangements from work was engendering some of the nonsense listed above).
Also, still mulling over whether to re-up with LJ. Their latest olive branch is offering permanent accounts and promising a portion of sales to good organizations, such as the EFF and some group which is opposing child exploitation. All fine, but they haven't yet defined their policies, and have still held out that there are some accounts they are "unwilling to host". No, I'm not under the impression that my journal would be one of them; it's strictly a matter of principle.
* Final questions: At 6' 0", name the shortest man ever to be named Most Valuable Player in the NBA. Then the second category, "Celebrities": The first was Joanne Woodward, in 1960; the latest was Cole Porter, last month. What is "it"? (Somewhat poorly worded, but Rick figured that more info would probably give it away. As was, we were the only team to get it...)