It’s a big day today, as the Academy Award nominations will be announced at 5:30 AM PST (you’d think they’d bump that up a bit, but I guess not). Now I get to hear which of the movies I haven’t seen are the best of the best. I can hardly wait ’til they come out on Amazon or Netflix.
In other exciting news, due to the fact that they’ve hired way too many people for our electronic medical records project, the parking lot where I work has become ridiculously overcrowded (as has the building; they have people stuffed into conference rooms, and offices designed for two people are now tripled and quadrupled up). It was bad enough before the snow flew, but now with snow piles and plows, we’ve lost even more spaces.
So they’ve come to the monumental decision to let us occasionally work from home (this isn’t a new idea, and is done extensively around the institution – just not in the IT area, because the person or persons who run the IT department are basically Luddites, which kind of goes to show who gets promoted around here). Apparently, we’re starting out a one day per week, and my day will be Friday (aka, tomorrow), which will be very nice indeed. Especially for the dogs, who get to have me around all day.
Speaking of the dogs, one of them chewed up my very expensive universal remote yesterday. I should have known better, but he had kind of ignored it, so I thought it was safe. Guess not. So he’s on my shit list for a while (until I get over it), and I’ve been shunning him. The little bastard.
Now, instead of just pushing one button on the touchscreen and having it turn on (or off) all the appropriate devices and settings, I now have to fart around with four or five remotes and try and remember what gets turned on for each thing. It’s kind of annoying.
Oh well, time to get back to work, I guess.
Bacon-It’s not just for breakfast anymore.
I’ve been in a typing funk lately. It seems I can’t put my fingers to the keys without typing horribly. I like to attribute it the keyboard being old a fucked up but, I hate to admit it, it’s me– old and fucked up. Not only are there numerous typing errors but my grammar has been on the decline as of late, too. I dunno. Sometimes I feel I shouldn’t even be allowed on FB with all the dumb shit I post.
So, I finished my stint with USPS. It sucked, but at least I was paid. That’s all that matters, I guess. Though I’m still living on the edge of poverty, I don’t live in squalor or a broken home. Actually living with my mom has some upsides like being able to raid the fridge, neglecting to buy necessities at the grocery because she’ll probably remember to do so, and stuff like that. There are numerous drawbacks of course. Like, for instance, privacy.
Imagine being almost 30 and inviting a girlfriend over to your place with your mom home. On second thought no, don’t do it. It’s not something you should spend your time thinking about. I’ll toil in it for you. I keep telling myself, “It’s hard out there for a pimp, yo”. Truly words of wisdom.
I purposely never learned to type when I was young because I did not want to be anyone’s secretary. In those “good old days” that was what was expected of women. But, now that I’m old, the computer has forced me to learn to type and in spite of much practice I am still really bad. Fortunately I don’t have to do it for a living.
I never learned to type because I’m lazy and cheated in 8th grade typing class. Now I have to type for a living, and I suck at it.
I studied Mavis Beacon in High School at my father’s insistence. Although it meant I worked as a secretary at various points in my life (and a damn fine one, I might add…knew shorthand, too), knowing how to type is a necessity for me now. Thanks dad.
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Travis, just pretend you are living in Italy where it’s normal for men to live with their moms until said men find wives to marry.
Our governor, Andrew Cuomo, must have seen something that convinced it was time to be a liberal. Maybe his dad, Mario, smacked him. Or maybe he learned that a sane Republican (is there such a thing?) will challenge him for the title of Republican Lite. Whatever happened, his state of the state speech was a leftie dream: gun control, increasing the minimum wage by $1.50 to $8.75, public financing of elections, tougher greenhouse gas standards, a solar jobs program, an affordable housing initiative, strengthening abortion rights and equal pay legislation, and help for flooded homeowners to make their homes less vulnerable or to enable them to move. He said NY must remain the progressive capital of the nation (making all the other progressive capitals quite annoyed I’m sure).
Upstate he wants to build 3 casinos to encourage tourism. I don’t know how the affected upstaters will like that. I didn’t hear any specifics about where exactly he wants these casinos.
He’d do himself a big favor if he got those “independent Dems” he helped to turn the state senate over to the Repubs to return it to the Dems who won it.
Good speech, but I’ll believe him when I see some real legislation.
Yeah, that’s what’ll restore Upstate, NY. Casinos.
I didn’t hear him mentioning banning fracking, either.
Cuomo is a :fu: ing Ferengi. :growl: