12 weeks later, I'm back to work. I've been at my new job for 10 days so far, still in training. I'm really enjoying it. I expect it's going to be a great longterm job. I even got class valedictorian for my training! That speaks volumes to me about my abilities. Not that I'm better than others, but that I'm not the failure my previous boss ( Read more... )

The notebooks did not arrive in Boston again today.

The CDs did.

Who knows if the people presenting had a chance to review any of the material before they presented.

Shoot me now.

dOkay - it merits telling, belive me, so bear with me. The sordid details of putting the presentations together and all that followed ( Read more... )

...like when the tech guy gives you administrator priveleges on your laptop, so you can install your own software, like the new media packaging software you bought to put out informational CDs for your department...or the latest version Real Player so your wishful daydreams about listening to old episodes of This American Life downstairs while ( Read more... )

Looks like it will be a busy and very focused week. My boss and I were both in by 7:30 and he actually not only remembered our weekly meeting but bumped it up instead of back! We had a good talk about the priorities for the week. He really wants my energies focused on testing so he's going to run numbers and key data for the monthly cashflow ( Read more... )

S and C will be visiting this weekend. Haven't seen them in more than 6 months, so it will be great to see them. I am bummed that C has been to Phoenix twice in that time and hasn't called or even let me know she was coming. *sigh* Kids ( Read more... )

My brain still hasn't quite recovered from a very intense day of reporting. Lots of excel spreadsheet stuff, manipulating data for a monthly update that really should be way, way easier than I've made it. I'm redoing a report, or rather a series of mini reports, that I did in April and haven't had the energy to recreate since. I'm a week late on ( Read more... )

I'm going to make this short because it's late ( Read more... )

You know what I love? Reading my friends list. What a nice way to inject some interest into my day, when I'm lost in a sea timesheets, project approvals, and excel spreadsheets ( Read more... )

Sister left for San Francisco on Monday, a little later than expected. They still managed to arrive in San Raphael by evening on Tuesday - apparently just in time for their first earthquake. I called her as soon as I heard about it, but it was actually a non-event. They didn't feel it, weren't subject to the tsunami alert and weren't rattled by ( Read more... )