I could definitely go for a nap right now. Sleep has been a tad problematic of late. While I am ready to crash by the end of the workday, but then I get home and catch my second wind and then I’m wide awake until midnight…
Tonight’s plan: get off work, run a few errands, go to bed.
Who knows how many other dentists to go check out.
Nice place.
Insanely large estimate.
No itemized estimate.
Something a bit off about the woman that saw me, that bugs me more as the evening goes on.
The search will go on…
As in, only do a half day of work. Off to the dentist at 1:30 for x-rays and interrogation to see if this guy really can handle me as a patient or not, and then I’m taking the rest of the day off. Going home, putter around the house, make some baked potato soup and watch the snow fall.
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or just some really good winter comfort food…
Cheese Buns:
2 pounds lean ground beef
1 small — chopped onion
1 small can ripe olives (sliced or chopped)
1/2 teaspoon chili powder
8 ounces tomato sauce
1 brick — Mexican Velveeta
Lightly brown meat with onion
Add everything else, simmer until all melted.
Put in hamburger type buns (Onion rolls are very good)
Wrap tightly in tin foil and freeze if desired
Reheat at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes
Also can be served over macaroni or egg noodles
It’s probably not a good thing that I finally realized that Williams Sonoma has an online store…
I want one of these and a set of those and a few of those things over there
I did absolutely nothing, and it was everything that I hoped it could be.
Peter Gibbons, Office Space
In a nutshell, that will hopefully be my weekend. No road trips, no errands to run, nowhere I have to be at any time.
No one is allowed to get sick this weekend, either.
I’ve worked too many hours this week, so this weekend will be spent getting a few things done around the house, and generally relaxing and doing as little as possible.
I can’t wait. :)
I swear, I *just* left here! :)
We were here until 8:30 last night, (which is bad, but ok, since I kinda got to save the day) - got to leave as the roads were getting good and nasty. 1 car vs. snowplow on Cedar Lane. SUV vs. ditch farther down Cedar Lane. Olley Lane in front of the school - 5 cars in the ditch. Made it home without incident - proof again that slow and steady wins the race.
I had already informed my boss I would be invoking the 12 hour rule. You don’t leave your house less than 12 hours from the time you left work the night before. On top of that, I also invoked the snow rule. If the government isn’t closed (and I sure wish they had!), one extra cup of coffee before leaving for every inch of snow. Gives plenty of time for the roads to be clear before heading out.
Strolled in here about 10:45 and got to save the day again. Seems the IUS Gross & depreciation lines wouldn’t validate. Oh, the horror!! But, by simply rolling them back into the Gross PP&E and depreciation, problem solved. And that’s where we book them anyway - don’t know why MegaCorp wanted them broken out before. If you understand this, then you probably work for a large corporation.
While I would have loved to just stay home and slack off, the storm just wasn’t bad enough to justify it. But with the gawdawful hours I’ve had this week, today is pure paid overtime. Howzzat for a silver lining??
“This is idiotproof!”
Because you’re just tempting God to build a better idiot.
They’ve spent months and months and lots of money and all that.
They dragged people into countless hours of meetings and “training”.
Except they never actually taught people how to use it. I’m really not kidding.
No one was taught *how* to get a journal entry in. No one was taught what order the cost processing has to go in. No one was shown how to post revenue.
The closing today is interesting to say the least. We’ve got an incomplete chart of accounts. Service centers that were never completely set up. Pools that are cross-linking allocation accounts (think Ghostbusters and crossing the streams…)
We’ve got one “guru”, who, while he is quite knowledgeable, isn’t terribly helpful. He keeps pointing out things that aren’t set up right (good), but it has not occurred to him to offer to help set them up right, OR even give instruction on how to set them up right, so I’m getting to figure that one out on my own today (which I have, nanny-nanny-boo-boo, see I am just as smart as you are, pphhbbtt.) He wants to make it a learning experience, which is all fine and well, but I’ve found that letting people drown isn’t necessarily the best way to teach them to swim.
I’m now drawing on the experience I had with this system about 8 or so months ago, and that was mainly on the SA side of things, not the processing side. And yet, I still am doing better with it than anyone else I’m working with right now.
It’s been an interesting day.
Read this morning:
lisa, posting in lj_maintenance @ 2:21pm: Chef Cluster Read-only
The Chef database cluster will be going read-only while we optimize some tables. Users on this cluster will be unable to make journal entries or receive comments. This should be down for 15-30 minutes.
To find out which cluster you are on, go here
So, of course I have to go look…
Where are you?
You, pisceandreamer, are on the Cartman Cluster!
First entry I make in the new accounting system and the entire thing locks up on me. And the “MIS Manager” who is responsible for it doesn’t seem to be answering his phone or checking his voice mail.
Lovely.
(this one inspired by
“By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”
Socrates (469-399 B.C.)
http://www.coolquotes.com/
now my ear has started to hurt, feels like an ear infection.
Very good possiblility it could be a contributing factor to my somewhat onery mood today.
The gals in the cubes to my left have gone into synchronized meltdowns…
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Despair.com came to my rescue for twisted humor. Hadn’t seen the 2003 stuff before today.
that will nicely sum up how today has been going…
Craptastic!
Now, I’m not at the “I really have to get another job” point, more of the “Wow, it sure would be fun to smack around a coworker!” point.
Desperately in need of some sick and/or twisted humor.
I will not take a patronizing, smarmy comment personally, especially when it comes from someone who does not know me in any way, shape or form…
I will not take a patronizing, smarmy comment personally, especially when it comes from someone who does not know me in any way, shape or form…
I will not take a patronizing, smarmy comment personally, especially when it comes from someone who does not know me in any way, shape or form…
I will not take a patronizing, smarmy comment personally, especially when it comes from someone who does not know me in any way, shape or form…
is a border collie desperately in need of a herd. Or doggie boot camp, which I will be making calls for in the morning.
She is exceptionally friendly and sweet and well tempered, but when she gets that tunnel vision thing that she gets (that supposedly can be broken with training), God help all of us. Her tunnel vision has resulted in…
Getting hit by a car….. on two separate occasions
Going to the vet for getting beat up by a cat… twice…
and today,
getting beat up by Snoopy, AGAIN, for which she is gimping around a bit this evening. Oh, and there’s a broken lamp in the mix, too…
Calls for boot camp WILL be made in the morning.
Rick Husband
William McCool
Michael Anderson
Kalpana Chawla
David Brown
Laurel Clark
Ilan Ramon
No fate but the fate you make for yourself.
