The Right Now Thread - Freeze-Frame Radio

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

RE: The Right Now Thread

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

Well, my book may be coming to an end. CS4tS made Amazon take my book down. (Abbreviating their name just so it doesn't come up in any internet searches. If I made it too obscure to figure out, think Poultry Stew 4 da Seoul.) I've asked a friend who's an author and a lawyer whether she thinks I should enlist the services of a copyright lawyer.

confuzzed · Permanent State of Confusion

I am so damn deprssed and disappointed. I am going to be stuck at this crap shack forever.

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

Aw man Fuzzy, it sounds like those interviews didn't pan out? They were probably crappy places to work at anyway. Keep hunting.

If it helps to know that you're not alone, I'm on the depression wagon today too. I'm still feeling like a crappy, unoriginal writer who isn't even loved by her own cat.

Mad Mema · Bad Biker Granny

Sorry the job hunt isn't going so well, Fuzzy. That blows.

I'm just right back to tired. It is now 2:30 on Monday and it feels like it should be 4:30 on Thursday. Yet another in a chain of arse beatings being unleashed upon me at work. I'm not complaining as I'd rather be busy than not, just sayin'... not sure how they will survive 4 whole work days without me.

Currently on a conference call for one of my big projects. Everybody has a foreign accent, none of them are matching accents.

And the PM for this project is fairly useless. Far as I can tell, her sole function here seems to be take really crappy notes that don't even mean anything to her, open the conference bridge, and ask "okay, who can help fix that?".

Mad Mema · Bad Biker Granny

Don't tell anybody, but at the moment I'm all caught up with work.

confuzzed · Permanent State of Confusion

I can offer you some of mine.

Mad Mema · Bad Biker Granny

Thanks for thinking of me, Fuzzy. The one thing I probably do need to at least get started if not finished before I go is my mid-year review paperwork. I hate doing those things, but it seems I have largely cleared the deck for working on that.

confuzzed · Permanent State of Confusion

My mom taught me how to share.

Mad Mema · Bad Biker Granny

Okay, send stuff on over, Fuzzy... seems I knocked the mid-year review out of the park. I was anticipating a massive effort at it all up until I got out to the website. Basically, there is a list of my goals with a configurable "status" button which I updated from "not-started" to "in progress", then there is a box for the free-form text where I am supposed to put my commentary about my goals. They give me 1000 characters.

I managed to baffle a bunch of BS in there that sounds like a response to all of my goals in 991 characters. So yes, I can go back in and add "I ROCK!" if I want to.

confuzzed · Permanent State of Confusion

NIce. You know you should. BUt I think that is best reserved for the year end review.

Mad Mema · Bad Biker Granny

If you look to the left of the truck there is a big boulder. It has a twin that you can't see because the truck is high-centered on it. The tow truck had to jack up the back end and slide over.

-- Edited by Mad Mema on Friday 19th of July 2013 02:56:50 PM

Mad Mema · Bad Biker Granny

I told my supervisor that I did the math on it and I could have just typed "I ROCK!" 142.8 (rounded up) times. He laughed at that, and replied that he was thinking "My team ROCKS and so do I." was going to be his commentary. Happy corporate puppy that he is, I'm sure it will be more expansive than that. On the up side, whenever he gets around to my feedback it should be stellar. He was falling all over himself to tell me how he has been so impressed with my work of late and that he is amazed that nothing has missed a beat since Little Man has been gone. What can I say? I'm the schiznit around here.

confuzzed · Permanent State of Confusion

Mad Mema wrote:
What can I say? I'm the schiznit around here.

I thought we agreed that you rock. You should have told him, "I rock. I have always rocked. And I will continue to rock no matter to whom I report."

"I sir, am a professional."

Mad Mema · Bad Biker Granny

I honestly forgot what it is like to have a nothing kind of day at the office.

I wish I would have had enough characters left to include, "And I do all of my own stunt work."

confuzzed · Permanent State of Confusion

Yeah, I am not going to make a 3pm departure.

Mad Mema · Bad Biker Granny

Photo: When we say "don't text and drive" we meant it. And right in front of the network building....

Revenge of the PCS network: WE TOLD YOU NOT TO TEXT WHILE DRIVING. And right in front of our office building too...

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

LOL!!

Mad Mema · Bad Biker Granny

I should have waited to get the shot of the flatbed tow truck lifting it off the boulder.

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

It's on a boulder?! LOL!

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

Ah, I see it now! I didn't look close enough at first and thought it was just a high curb. Wow.

Mad Mema · Bad Biker Granny

I'm pretty sure the landscapers put those there to keep people from cutting that corner and ruining the grass. It's not like that is a narrow drive either. It is a wide two lane drive with enormous curbs. Took some real effort to get that trunk high centered like that. I didn't hang out to see if they actually drove it off or if the half shaft was trashed. When I last looked at it, the tow truck had the back end jacked up enough to put the front wheels on the ground.

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

Just now, I thought, "Man, I need another cup of coffee."

So I plugged in my electric kettle and poured an instant coffee packet into my cup.

When the water was hot, I went to pour it into the cup, and found that I still had half a cup of coffee.

No wonder I felt like I needed more.

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

My dad has had 3 wives: my mom, my ex-stepmom (who was always kind of loopy), and his current wife (who's really cool, I like her a lot).

I'm friends with my ex-stepmom on Facebook.

Today she posted a picture of her husband. I thought, "He's kinda hot."

Of course he is. At least she's got good taste. I mean, she was married to my dad.

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

Me, to my boss, while I'm yet again fixing a customer's screw-up: "What would you do if I couldn't fix this? What if I won the Powerball last weekend?"

MY boss: "I'd move in with you and be your maid."

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

My boss is from Kentucky, and still has a bit of the accent. She just sent an email that was supposed to say, "for." Instead, it said, "fer."

I picked on her and said, "You're typing like you talk!"

Thank goodness my boss has a sense of humor.

confuzzed · Permanent State of Confusion

I may have finally made a little headway with the big boss about moving up. We were discussing the tumor in my head and I told him of my theory - I was smatrt when I was a little kid ad then I got dumb. When they remove this thing from my head I will be smart again. That led into a discussion about not needing abything more than a high school degree to woek here, So then I asked him, "Then why do I have four college degrees?" Then we had the degree conversation. And it led perfectly into the promotion thing, helping my boss out more and learning new tihngs but not having the timr, He was impressed by my educational background, Told me he would speak to the even bugger boss about using my talents. So, somehow I may have started something. I told my boss I just needed a little time with our boss. This was an accident. Imagine where I could have been two yearsago ifI could have had a real conversation about this with him.

Progress. Maybe.
I will apologize for any misspellings. Since I am not seeing too well, it has been tough. And the above paradraph is too long to try to edit.

Mad Mema · Bad Biker Granny

Good for you, Fuzzy! About time they decide to start putting your skills to some good use. I hope they actually follow through.

confuzzed · Permanent State of Confusion

It might be a stepping stone. They are talking about bringing in a temp if I have to have surgery and be out for a while. Not that I can be replaced by a temp and it wouls bw hard to show anyone the quirks of my job/ But if they decided to keep a person or hire another, it will be the beginning of a transirtion.

Mad Mema · Bad Biker Granny

I hear ya. Would love to see them try to put a temp in my job. There is fundamentally only one other person who works for this company who has the qualifications, and that is Little Man. Gotta love the "transition" process though. I'm patiently waiting for our next one. Based on what I was told, I have another couple weeks to wait. Already got the "spoiler alert" for the headline as far as I'm personally concerned. Just can't wait to hear the actual "why" of it. Could be any of a number of reasons, all of which end up good for me... I'm just wondering the specific flavor because some are better than others.