I see a lot of Social Insurance Numbers* in my job- every document that comes through has to have a SIN on it, and if it doesn't we have to write it on. Because of the way my mind works I'm constantly looking for patterns in the numbers. After a while I began to notice that at least one of the 3-digit clusters was often a palindrome ( Read more... )

Well, that's it. I walked out of the office today with a full tummy, a passel of pilfered office supplies, and way too many flowers. and I'm never going back.

Now it's time to decide what I want to be when I grow up (see, asteriatic, it's not just you). I could get another clerical type job, and hope it isn't as mind numbing and soul draining as Telus. I ( Read more... )

I started back at work today. It was only 4 hours, and the first 2 hours was a meeting. It took a little while to remember all the procedures; but if I didn't really think about it too hard, my fingers seemed to remember what to do. I'll be in for a full day tomorrow and Saturday.

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I've been coming down with some sort of virus, and have had a muscle ache starting in my shoulders for a couple of days now. It was bearable until this morning, when I was reaching under the bathroom sink for some Advil and sneezed at the same time. Suddenly my trapezius spasmed so bad I could hardly move. I got J to get the Advil for me, and ( Read more... )