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[snowbear101]

Good morning, Sharon. What wonderful things do you have planned for the day?

 

[sm4him]

About to start my second. Woke up same time as usual, but having considerable trouble getting moving this morning.

41F/5C this morning.

 

[sm4him]

Good morning, Sharon. What wonderful things do you have planned for the day?

Well, I hope to not have to strangle anyone. Is that a lofty enough goal? LOL

Probably mostly working on selecting photos for the calendar we do at work every year. Have a music lesson at lunchtime.
And probably something to get ready for the big conference that I just haven't been told about yet.

 

[sm4him]

What are you up to today, Charlie?

I'd ask Marija, but her day is nearly done--what are your evening plans, Marija? No zoomba tonight, right?

 

[snowbear101]

It's a little warmer here - 43F / 6C. 97% humidity

 

[mmaria]

I'd ask Marija, but her day is nearly done--what are your evening plans, Marija? No zoomba tonight, right?

2,5 hours more at work
no zoomba tonight.... that means we can sing all night tonight

I'm a bit upset you don't like my selfie...

 

[snowbear101]

I finished my elevations yesterday, except for nine overpasses that need road segments to be split (just need approval). I built a network with them before I left, yesterday, so I'll run some routing tests.

After that, just keep plugging away at my run card project.

How can I get a calendar?

 

[snowbear101]

And probably something to get ready for the big conference that I just haven't been told about yet.

"Oh, by the way . . ." Don't you just love these? I had a co-worker that was famous for telling you about crap that was broken (that HE should have fixed or replaced) as he walked out the door: "Oh, by the way, the fire supervisor's computer is dead so he's at the spare console. Bye, see you later."

 

[sm4him]

I'd ask Marija, but her day is nearly done--what are your evening plans, Marija? No zoomba tonight, right?

2,5 hours more at work
no zoomba tonight.... that means we can sing all night tonight

I'm a bit upset you don't like my selfie...

We'll just sing like the angels then!!! Which will fit your avatar (which I really like by the way).

Don't be upset about me not liking or responding to things until I've had at least two cups of coffee--until then, my brain is pretty much in a fog. I'm doing good just to read and type. Then I usually realize later I didn't click like on things I liked!

 

[mmaria]

I'd ask Marija, but her day is nearly done--what are your evening plans, Marija? No zoomba tonight, right?

2,5 hours more at work
no zoomba tonight.... that means we can sing all night tonight

I'm a bit upset you don't like my selfie...

We'll just sing like the angels then!!! Which will fit your avatar (which I really like by the way).

Don't be upset about me not liking or responding to things until I've had at least two cups of coffee--until then, my brain is pretty much in a fog. I'm doing good just to read and type. Then I usually realize later I didn't click like on things I liked!

awwwwwwwwwww

 

[sm4him]

And probably something to get ready for the big conference that I just haven't been told about yet.

"Oh, by the way . . ." Don't you just love these? I had a co-worker that was famous for telling you about crap that was broken (that HE should have fixed or replaced) as he walked out the door: "Oh, by the way, the fire supervisor's computer is dead so he's at the spare console. Bye, see you later."

No kidding. And it happens OFTEN with my job. A couple of weeks ago, I had to leave early, which my boss knew about. She comes in and says, "oh hey, before you leave, could you...oh, wait, what time are you leaving?" I was supposed to be leaving in 15 minutes and she's handing me a job that's going to take a minimum of an hour IF it all works right...and of course, she needs it in the morning. I ended up taking it home with me.

The ones I get the most are print requests; "Hey, could you order some more of these forms? We're completely out." and they are also forms that they use multiple times in a day, so of course they need them yesterday. I have tried and tried to get people to understand the concept of checking your inventory and ordering BEFORE you run out of things, but to no avail.
That's often combined with "oh, and if you could just change X about them..." with no concept that changing "x" requires considerably more than just hitting some key on the keyboard.

 

[sm4him]

I finished my elevations yesterday, except for nine overpasses that need road segments to be split (just need approval). I built a network with them before I left, yesterday, so I'll run some routing tests.

After that, just keep plugging away at my run card project.

How can I get a calendar?

You don't want one of these calendars. They are mostly just pictures of employees and buses/trolleys throughout the year--heavy on the employee pics because, of course, that's what they really like. We do throw some of my art or nature shots in for filler, but that's about it.
And the calendar itself is just all the internal dates people need to be aware of.

I do want to do a calendar of MY photos though--I guess I need to get on that!

 

[mmaria]

And probably something to get ready for the big conference that I just haven't been told about yet.

"Oh, by the way . . ." Don't you just love these? I had a co-worker that was famous for telling you about crap that was broken (that HE should have fixed or replaced) as he walked out the door: "Oh, by the way, the fire supervisor's computer is dead so he's at the spare console. Bye, see you later."

No kidding. And it happens OFTEN with my job. A couple of weeks ago, I had to leave early, which my boss knew about. She comes in and says, "oh hey, before you leave, could you...oh, wait, what time are you leaving?" I was supposed to be leaving in 15 minutes and she's handing me a job that's going to take a minimum of an hour IF it all works right...and of course, she needs it in the morning. I ended up taking it home with me.

The ones I get the most are print requests; "Hey, could you order some more of these forms? We're completely out." and they are also forms that they use multiple times in a day, so of course they need them yesterday. I have tried and tried to get people to understand the concept of checking your inventory and ordering BEFORE you run out of things, but to no avail.
That's often combined with "oh, and if you could just change X about them..." with no concept that changing "x" requires considerably more than just hitting some key on the keyboard.

omg!!!

no comment!

 

[snowbear101]

When I was doing backgrounds we would have to order forms all the time on an "emergency" basis. Frequently it was a matter of the supervisor having so many other things, she just hadn't gotten to that part of the pile, but once in a while we'd get a call from the Police or Corrections Department: "We're going to have an additional test on Thursday (this is Tuesday) and we've invited 250 applicants. OK, so they will get half to actually show up, then the 10% attrition rate at each step means I'll need about 90 "blue books" (Personal History Statement). I'd have 75, enough until the order normally arrives, but . . .

Eventually, I was made the "forms person" which meant I had to get things organized and ordered. It also meant that I would bribe, I mean "provide some incentives to" the print shop (a really nice group of people) every so often, just to keep things cool.

 

[snowbear101]

Hey -- how about a calendar filled with some of the lovely posts found in this gem of a thread? September could have iTunes reports plastered all over the page, February could be filled with hugging smileys. The rest of the months are kitties, football, cinnamon buns and a couple of Marija's selfies.