I find beauty in a fully automated work day. The more of my job that I can set up to be automated, the better. There was an article I read a while ago about a sysadmin who set up scripts to run for every aspect of his day. He even had one he could run […]
A couple of years ago Ellie had a terrarium on her Christmas wish list. My mom looked into getting her one. It quickly found out how expensive they are. Like crazy expensive for what it is. If you haven’t looked, I recommend checking prices on them now so you know what I’m saying. Yeah, expensive […]
I said I wasn’t going to do it, but I got my hopes up. I knew our odds were bad from the beginning and I still let it happen. That doesn’t change that I really did want to buy that house. Ellie and I lifted our December ban on house showings to see one and […]
The cold got to us. Ellie told me yesterday that the car wouldn’t start and she was going to walk to work. Fine, I thought, the temperatures were hovering at 5 or 10 below all Sunday night. We’ll just need to warm up the battery and it will be back to normal. No dice. Ellie […]
I’m not the person to ask about creating budgets. For home life, maybe but I need a lot of incentive to stick to it. For work, no. I know so little about what it costs to run the company and what it would take to bring a profit and even less about what ideal goals […]
Yesterday was our holiday party for work. I have mixed feelings about work parties. In theory, they should be fun because it’s eating and drinking with the goal of having a good time, right? Not always for me. I feel obligated to show up and it’d be nice not to. In an office of a […]
Ellie and I just joined the YMCA. We just left our old contract at the Princeton Club behind because we weren’t using it. The YMCA, however, we fully intend to use. I’m not sure that it’s and closer, about three miles from where we live, but there are so many more draws to being members […]
Today, the atmosphere at work was reset. The co-worker who checked out and was too young to know things was fired. There was a collective sigh of relief. It turns out, he used the same attitude with his supervisor what he used with me and she also did not take it well. Everyone in the office has […]
There was a winter a few years back where the cold was colder than I ever remember. This was back when I lived in Waukesha and worked at the translation company. It was a 25 minute drive to work so I relied on my car to get me there every day. But the temperatures dropped […]
I am not tech support. I was not hired to fix problems you’re having with your computer. I was hired to write content and to interface with developers to improve out company system. You not being able to access your personal email is not my problem. You not being able to access your personal voicemail […]