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Dec. 29th, 2009 @ 08:09 am
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This is a great piece about gay rights and why denying them should be considered wrong by any intelligent person. Thanks to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) fenrah for the link.
(Shameless plug: Abbie's podcast continues to be awesome, go listen!)
Last night of volleyball for the season is tonight and I have to work late. Boo. It sucks cause I will not have seen Em in like 3 weeks, and with the holidays it will be another 1 or 2 until we can hang out. And without volleyball, it will take a lot of planning and schedule juggling to make time for us to hang out. Sad.
Project workflow seems to be fixed. To bad for them I've been moved part time to help on another project, their stuff will have to wait, I guess. And I don't mind that at all, really.
Not too thrilled with Amazon.com these days. Paul got me a book I already had (I'd forgotten to take it off my wish list). They want to charge us $4 on an $8 book to ship it back to them. At that price I'll sell it to Half-Price Books.
I'm on the next Women of the Underworld books by Kelly Armstrong right now, a great series that I just started my brother-in-law on at Christmas. It's good, but following one of the characters I don't really have much interest in. The next one (which Paul also got me) is about the men of her world, and looks good. (And just now while checking Wikipedia to make sure I have them in the correct order I found she has a ton of short stories set in this world on her website! Sweet!)Current Mood:  content |
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Dec. 28th, 2009 @ 03:39 pm
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It was a good trip north to the family. Roads were kinda icy on the way up, saw 3 cars in the ditch, and smashed police car and a semi trailer with it's wheels and axels detached. We made OK time though.
Had the Jokinen family Christmas, lots of food and decent gifts (I got a box of Franzia in the gift exchange, not one of the better choices). Also had a lot of one-on-one time with Jack, which was cool. Paul got to experience the absolute desolation that is my home town, a true Finnish sauna (105 C), and staying at our family's hunting cabin / ski lodge. It's only a one room cabin with 2 bunk beads and an indoor bathroom. But it's cozy and secluded.
On Sunday we had just my immediate family (Laura, Jack, Rob, mom and dad, Paul and I). That was good too. Mom and Dad seemed more receptive of Paul.
All in all a good trip. In two weeks we are going to the Twin Cities to see his family, as long as my vacation gets approved.
Work is a big mess, none of it is my fault, so my project is stopped. Gonna go and be a cog in someone else's project for a bit until the client gets things working again.Current Mood:  chipper |
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Dec. 25th, 2009 @ 11:10 am
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Merry Christmas all, tomorrow we are headed north for the holiday party with my family, hope you all are well. I leave you with JP being cute last night and a holiday song.
http://yfrog.com/1dhp7hj
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Dec. 20th, 2009 @ 08:51 am
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I'm feeling a little abandoned at work today. Neither of my project managers are in, and I have questions that I need help answering or at least help making decisions on. Granted it's early, they might be planning on coming in late morning, it is Sunday after all.
None of our contacts at the client seem to be in, must be nice to have weekends off. I have a few questions for those project leads at the client too, which I'm just kinda ignoring and making lists of files I need to go back to.
Plus the IT support people at the client's site seem to be either off or the "on-call" people there are useless. Our workflow contains a step where I send the files I'm done with into a PDF generator, where the PDFs for the printer and/or inspection are created. It seems to be stuck/crashed/dead since 1:30 pm yesterday. And now I have around 100 files just sitting in line, waiting to be processed. As they go though I need to watch the error logs to make sure the PDF was made fine, else I have to fix the problem and resend it. AND, some of these PDFs that are being made need to be placed in the pages I'm working on today.
I have this huge looming deadline of Monday morning, and it feels like I have no support. And of course those reasons won't matter to the client when I can't deliver everything tomorrow morning, they will just yell and bitch all the harder. It still scares me that these politically minded, petty, and blame throwing people are also the ones who decided what our children are learning from. The text book industry is an ugly place.Current Mood:  stressed Current Music: Sorry, Sorry - Super Junior |
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Dec. 19th, 2009 @ 09:19 am
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The latest Escape Pod episode was really good, future Chinese vs. Japanese war, with AI talking missiles. Littleblossom Makes a Deal with the Devil, I highly recommend it.
Working a lot today, gonna try to get as much done by the Monday morning deadline as I can. Though I won't get it all done by far.
Also have to run a few errands, bring JP to vet to weigh him and get his Heartguard, pick up mom's gift still, wrap gifts, bring the comforter JP peed on to the laundry mat so I can wash it, etc.
Gonna be a busy weekend. I plan to rest on Christmas, hopefully I won't be asked to work.Current Mood:  okay |
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Dec. 17th, 2009 @ 08:32 am
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It's 8:07 and I already want to quit today.
Driving home from work last night I noticed one of my tires is low. So this morning I check it and it's pretty flat, I hobble to the closet gas station to try some air, but it doesn't take any. So while I'm taking everything out of my trunk to get my tire changing supplies, the head mechanic there tells me that I really shouldn't be doing that in their lot for liability reasons. Now I'd been there for like 5 minutes and was probably 10 minutes from being done. So I pack up my stuff and drive 50 feet down the road. I probably would have left the tire there to be fixed, but if he's gonna be an ass, he gets no work from me. My favorite garage dose do tire repair, so after they've taken the screw out of it and patched it, I'll drive over and pick it up. Should only be $20-25.
And now I've got more work piled onto my all ready over schedule job. I'm missing the deadline by a week as is, and now they are adding an entire new 5 grade project to it. And the new stuff will have even more for me to do.
Yesterday's holiday lunch at work was yummy. Ate too much.
Last night at the Green Owl, a new vegetarian cafe here, we had a good time. Service was slow, but the food was good. We will probably head back there soon, and the prices were reasonable.
Then we exchanged presents, I got a new 2-5 player game, Small Worlds, which looks like fantasy rsik, with many different races. Paul got the Serenity/Firefly role-playing game. The girls and him are turning into such gamers.Current Mood: stressed |
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