so, this is it.<\/p>\n
I’m working for the first time in 2008.<\/p>\n
What am I doing?<\/p>\n
I started out the day by going to executive headquarters and powering on their conference equipment and putting it in a ready state.<\/p>\n
One room was uncabled and a TV antenna had been hooked up. I guess maybe someone wanted to watch TV badly enough to bring their own antenna. NOT permitted.<\/p>\n
I unhooked the antenna and recabled the system for it’s intended purpose, VIDEO CONFERENCING.<\/p>\n
Drove from Executive HQ to my actual office. Yes, I drove to work today. I would have taken the bus, and hopefully will do so tomorrow, but I had some equipment that I had to return. Monday I had a doctor’s appointment (all good news, yay!) and I had a trouble spot near that medical building. So, on friday, I packed my car with the needed equipment and brought it with me so that on monday I could do the tests.<\/p>\n
WHICH MEANS, today, wednesday, i had to take my car back to work to return the equipment I had used the previous work day.<\/p>\n
My job involves a lot of shuttling STUFF around.<\/p>\n
And so, today, I shuttled things to the office. When I arrived at my building, I took the equipment out of my car and put them in the van.<\/p>\n
Then I went upstairs to the 3rd floor to my cube. I started my email and all other computer things…admired my GTD-style <\/a>empty inbox. Well, it had one email in it. A survey about how my company is doing regarding diversity. In GTD style<\/a>, I did the survey RIGHT THEN.<\/p>\n They asked some vague questions and then got really personal. No, I am not transgender. I feel secure in saying that.<\/p>\n Then had a long intense conversation with co-worker about politics, religion, euthanasia (one of his favorite topics) and suburban sprawl (another favorite).<\/p>\n During this long conversation I drank some wretched instant cofee..I have run out of the good instant coffe. I like the international coffees sometimes. You know, the kind that are powdered and sweet and milky? And I try to get sugar free and fat free, which reduces the yumminess. This one, the wretched one, it a generic brand of the reasonably yummy kind. I have NO IDEA what flavor it’s supposed to be.<\/p>\n “Cafe Vienna” it’s called. It is not chocolate. It doesn’t taste vanilla. Or hazelnut or cinnamon…I can’t really tell what vienna is supposed to taste like. If I go to vienna, I don’t think I will lick it to find out.<\/p>\n I should throw the can out. It is my emergency reserve. I should have bought something yummy, like mocha or french vanilla hazelnut.<\/p>\n But I had the indefinable beverage and a banana.<\/p>\n I scheduled a work trip to antelope valley<\/a> for next week. Handled some personal business. Bought firepit I’ve been admiring. Asked my Credit union to fax me a release of lien on the broken car.<\/p>\n I started to check other people’s blogs, but then I thought I should write on my own!<\/p>\n hence this post.<\/p>\n I must go to Hollywood soon. I should have left already, but I am eating a rice and corn cake with a piece of soy cheese on it. MMMmm. When I am done with my little sandwich I will leave.<\/p>\n I am musing about all the things that are broken.<\/p>\n Oh yeah..I called our support contract people and asked them to send (again) the three tv monitors that were supposed to be here two weeks ago.<\/p>\n “They aren’t there yet?”<\/p>\n “No, the guy from shipping said he had to call you.”<\/p>\n “Why would he ask you to call me?”<\/p>\n “He didn’t. He said HE would call you.”<\/p>\n “oh. What was his name?”<\/p>\n “I dont’ remember.”<\/p>\n “Hmmm.”<\/p>\n “could you go ask them when or if the TVs are being shipped and send me an email with the status?”<\/p>\n “Okay.”<\/p>\n “Okay, Happy new year!”<\/p>\n “You too.”<\/p>\n I changed the battery in our clock which had gone dead. I realized I need to clean the microwave.<\/p>\n When I was first here, I resisted cleaning the ferociously dirty microwave for at least 6 months. I knew that if I cleaned it I would always clean it, and I didn’t want it to be my responsibility.<\/p>\n Responsibility. Like, the clock has needed the battery changed since last friday. YET! I am the one who changed it, today, Wednsday. There is a common saying, “If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.” I modify that here at work. “If I want something done (at all), I have to do it myself.”<\/p>\n Anyway, the microwave. I resisted as long as I could, but at last, my daily soup or frozen entree lunch was halted because of the smell. I could put something I intended to eat in the microwave that smells like that. I had to clean it.<\/p>\n Since then, I have come to terms. I microwave something almost daily. The others microwave only a few times a month.<\/p>\n So, maybe it is my job to clean the microwave. Since I use it most. I choose to ignore that before I arrived, the microwave began as wretchedly filthy.<\/p>\n That’s my day so far. I have finished my rice cake. I should probably get to hollywood.<\/p>\n I wish you all a productive new year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" so, this is it. I’m working for the first time in 2008. What am I doing? I started out the day by going to executive headquarters and powering on their conference equipment and putting it in a ready state. One … Continue reading