| Weekends filled with work |
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| 12:52pm 18/11/2009 |
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It's Wednesday. It's nearly noon. I haven't been able to get anything
productive done. Not so bad until you consider that this machine was slated
to be ready for power up and tetsing/debugging fully a week ago. But it is
not ready. Still. Because more and more the tech assigned to work on the
machine proves his incompetance. I am uncertain is this is due to sheer
laziness or if he truly lacks ability, but the end result is the same. I
will probably be here all weekend and I am HIGHLY displeased at this
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| Is it me? |
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| 01:49pm 29/10/2009 |
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Ok, I need to know. Is it me? Do I somehow give off a vibe that says, "Please give me all the work because I never have enough to do. I greatly enjoy staying at work for all hours of the day trying to meet your ridiculous deadlines"?
My new boss is much more organized than my old boss; He schedules things out, he knows what we're doing. Yet, here I am, assigned with the majority of machines presently out on the floor, with two machines supposedly going to be powered up for programming and debugging NEXT WEEK, while I am still supporting another machine in the field and on the floor, and my boss comes in with a research project that needs to be done by Monday and asks ME SPECIFICALLY to look into it. What, am I the only electrical engineer now? Sr is completely unable to take on new projects?
This lets-assign-everything-to-Moose started before my new boss came in. My old boss was going through the electrical schedule a few months back and noted that I somehow got assigned seven projects versus sr's two.
If I am somehow inviting all these projects upon myself, let me know. Point out to me whatever it is I'm doing and I'll try to stop. This is ridiculous. I am all for keeping busy, but not to the point where one is worked into the earth and the ground into a smear of blood and flesh. |
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| 08:52pm 11/10/2009 |
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mood:  accomplished music: LeeEv's auxiliary fan
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I'm feeling rather accomplished. My desk is clean in the first time for...months, maybe even years. I mean, it's really clean. I've finally fully migrated to LeeEv. nikOs is off the table now. I'm not entirely sure what to do with him, unfortunately. He's just packed away for the time being. The spare bed is mostly clean. The floor is also clean. It's nice.
I still have the blinds and windowsill to dust. And all the stuff we keep on the bookshelves. I really need to get me some bookshelves with doors.
But um...yay! Writing space! |
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| Make him stop |
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| 09:25am 28/09/2009 |
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I can't take it today. Why can't someone make him stop?? |
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| True story... |
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| 09:16am 28/08/2009 |
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We recently remodeled the front yard so that half of it is walled off from the street. My mother then proceeded to plant flowers and such along the inside of the wall, facing the house, as one of her hobbies is gardening. Since the front yard is walled, I feel ok about letting the dog run out there sometimes. It's not like she can do much damage in our own yard. That apparently is untrue. You see, my dog is secretly a horse.
The first time I let her out in the front yard, she was quite happy, as she didn't used to get to play in the front of the house that often. So she went exploring, as dogs do, and went over to sniff at the flowers my mother had planted. I wasn't paying that much attention to her, but out of the corner of my eye, I thought I saw her try to take a bite out of one of the blossoms. Wait...what? By the time I had fully focused on her, she had already wandered off and was exploring other parts of the yard. I figured I was just seeing things as it didn't look like any of the flowers were missing. At any rate, I shooed her inside and that was the end of it.
But this continued to happen when I would let my dog into the front yard. It would always seem like she was taking bites out of the flowers out of the corner of my eye and I was never quite fast enough to actually catch her in the act. The flowers never seemed to diminish in number, so I always thought I was just imagining things.
Finally, I decided I would just watch her the entire time she was out in the front yard. I mean, seriously, am I always imagining my dog eating flowers in the front yard? How ridiculous is that? She's not a horse. Why would she be interested in flowers? So, I let the dog out into the front yard again. She again went exploring to see whay might have changed from the last time she was out there. She paused by the flowers, this time by the tree in the middle of the yard, and then she proceeded to eat one of the blossoms and ran off. Wait...what? She really ate one of the flowers! Moderately horrified at what my dog horse had done, I shooed her back inside the house and made sure my mother hadn't seen what had happened. If she would ask, I would just blame the rabbits. I would hide the identity crisis my dog was having to try and spare her the shame and ridicule.
Since that incident, my dog hasn't really been too interested in the flowers in the front yard when she's out there. She seems much more interested in trying to open the gate to run out toward the street and to play. I thought maybe she's realized she is a dog after all. Until I caught her taking furtive bites out of the leafy tops of the vegetables my mother grows in the backyard. Sugh. |
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| Cheddar noodles? |
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| 01:52pm 18/08/2009 |
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I had no idea they had such things. Cheddar cheese yakisoba? That sounds really gross.
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| On aging |
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| 10:46am 04/08/2009 |
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As one gets older, one becomes more set, settled, and occupied. Ok, I can accept that, at least in theory. Through observation you can already tell that older folk are less flexible than the younger. But what about me as I get older? I can't imagine being like...my parents, say. Or a bunch of my coworkers. And yet, here I am noticing that I'm becoming more and more AR, inflexible and unwilling to change or compromise. WTF?
I notice it most when I'm proofreading. Any writing style different from my own is now automatically wrong. It bothers me TREMENDOUSLY when obvious details are missed or incorrect. Um, hello? The area code for this region changed YEARS ago. You obviously didn't bother even to look at what was written otherwise you would have caught it. How about that header? Didn't you notice that it was missing ON A WHOLE SECTION?? WTH? What kind of wording IS that?
I always thought I would just skip this phase in life. Maybe I'd stay young and immature forever. At least, I never gave it any serious consideration. I guess young people never really do. But, now I am. Does that mean I'm an old people now? What happened to my perpetual immaturity? I've always matured (psychologically) slower than my peers. What happened that I was suddenly catapulted into middle agedness while still retaining my angsty teen ways? Is this even possible?
This whole situation is highly disturbing to me. The only redeeming thing is that I realize it's happening. Maybe this means I can stave it off for awhile longer forever. I don't want to grow up. As if this whole working thing and responsibility thing isn't bad enough, I have to become old (psychologically), inflexible, and AR too? HIGHLY displeased. |
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| What I realized... |
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| 11:53pm 03/08/2009 |
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mood:  blah
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I seem to suffer some symptoms of misophonia. But, I only suffer from misophonia when I'm around certain people. Obviously, what ails me is not misophonia but intolerantstupidfatUSianism. This should go into the DSM IV, or whatever edition they're on now. |
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| Porting to LeeEv |
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| 07:55pm 30/07/2009 |
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I've done it. I've pretty much migrated everything I needed to LeeEv. After the arrival, sending back, rearrival, swapping out keyboards, and sending the old keyboard back, LeeEv is now my full time computing system. nikOs has been great. I haven't really had any major problems with him. But he's been starting to slow down a lot and after two blue screens this month, it was time to reformat again. Also, nikOs is just too slow to run certain applications now. Poor nikOs. I really like him. I'm uncertain what to do about him right now. He's still a fully functional laptop and in pretty good condition considering that he used to go everywhere with me. Except Egypt. I decided it wasn't worth losing him. I only had maer with me then...which ended up being fine anyway, since I was working 14 hours days the whole time I was there. So yeah. Say hi to LeeEv. I suspect pictures will come. If I stop being lazy and actually port them from the phone.
Oh, one more thing. I could get used to Vista on pretty much everything EXCEPT how they play with my keyboard settings and I CANNOT find a way to fully disable that function. FREAKING...YES I MEANT TO TYPE THOSE LETTERS IN A ROW!! |
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