What a short weekend!
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nolawitch58Yesterday, I was at work until 1:30. Our conversion went fairly well. The schedule only slipped less than an hour. Considering the number of action items and dependencies, that's phenomenal. It helps that there were two mocks in previous weeks. Minor glitches here and there were corrected and everything was running OK when I left. I did point out to a coworker that we weren't load testing and that Monday morning would be the proof of the pudding. That bummed him out so I made some goofy jokes and left him laughing.
I hope to live to see the day when this idiotic Daylight Savings Time horseshit is abandoned. Lose an hour, gain an hour...what's wrong with leaving it the hell alone? Productivity is lost. There's no real savings in any of it. The energy usage is merely shifted. Gah!
On the bright side of life, after I left work, I stopped in at Willie Mae's Scotch House Restaurant and got fried chicken and red beans and rice. That stuff is sublime. I'm ashamed to say that I didn't even know that place existed until it was featured on a "Best of" show on the Food Channel. Believe it that they have the best fried chicken in the country. What you get is three pieces of the moistest, most flavorfully seasoned and battered chicken from sea to shining sea, including Alaska and Hawaii.
Their dining room is dinky, but they have a print hanging on their wall that I'm going to hunt down to buy a copy. The print is a drawing in the style of the famous Saul Steinberg New Yorker cover with Manhattan in the foreground and the rest of the country squeezed into insignificance punctuated at the top of the picture with the Pacific Ocean. See the picture.
Anyway, this print is similar but it has New Orleans in the foreground, the rest of the country squeezed into insignificance and punctuated at the top by Canada. I've Googled the hell out of it, but it remains elusive on the 'net. I'm going to stalk all the art galleries in the French Quarter to see if any of them have it or know where to get it.
Other than that, I'm trying to remain positive about the political situation here. Mud is being flung so early in the race. I'm also trying to get the inclination to finish my book proposal. I got supremely disgusted with it when I had to write the part about myself. I've seen a lot of interesting things, but I'm not all that interesting a topic and the format calls for a degree of puffery I cannot summon. I don't think two paragraphs is enough. Yuck.
Regardless, I've got another nice project at work to do. I get to update the department's forms and information on our page of the internal website. I'm getting a full version of Adobe to play with and I might even tackle learning Java again. Lots of fun. I'm also going to see if the week following July 20th is available for vacation so I can move that a week further. I supposed I should leave myself a voice mail message so that I don't forget.
I hope to live to see the day when this idiotic Daylight Savings Time horseshit is abandoned. Lose an hour, gain an hour...what's wrong with leaving it the hell alone? Productivity is lost. There's no real savings in any of it. The energy usage is merely shifted. Gah!
On the bright side of life, after I left work, I stopped in at Willie Mae's Scotch House Restaurant and got fried chicken and red beans and rice. That stuff is sublime. I'm ashamed to say that I didn't even know that place existed until it was featured on a "Best of" show on the Food Channel. Believe it that they have the best fried chicken in the country. What you get is three pieces of the moistest, most flavorfully seasoned and battered chicken from sea to shining sea, including Alaska and Hawaii.
Their dining room is dinky, but they have a print hanging on their wall that I'm going to hunt down to buy a copy. The print is a drawing in the style of the famous Saul Steinberg New Yorker cover with Manhattan in the foreground and the rest of the country squeezed into insignificance punctuated at the top of the picture with the Pacific Ocean. See the picture.
Anyway, this print is similar but it has New Orleans in the foreground, the rest of the country squeezed into insignificance and punctuated at the top by Canada. I've Googled the hell out of it, but it remains elusive on the 'net. I'm going to stalk all the art galleries in the French Quarter to see if any of them have it or know where to get it.
Other than that, I'm trying to remain positive about the political situation here. Mud is being flung so early in the race. I'm also trying to get the inclination to finish my book proposal. I got supremely disgusted with it when I had to write the part about myself. I've seen a lot of interesting things, but I'm not all that interesting a topic and the format calls for a degree of puffery I cannot summon. I don't think two paragraphs is enough. Yuck.
Regardless, I've got another nice project at work to do. I get to update the department's forms and information on our page of the internal website. I'm getting a full version of Adobe to play with and I might even tackle learning Java again. Lots of fun. I'm also going to see if the week following July 20th is available for vacation so I can move that a week further. I supposed I should leave myself a voice mail message so that I don't forget.
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