Posts filed under 'The Office'
Since finding a healthier, albeit lengthier, route to work, I’ve started biking and taking the MAX three to four times a week, depending mostly on random factors. I had a pretty unpleasant MAX experience yesterday, however– I had to wait for three trains in the morning, and on the ride home a guy was puking water all over the car floor right next to me, which was lovely– so today I decided to be lazy and drive.
However!
It seems that it’s always the case that when I drive, something is there to remind me why I don’t. Usually, the soul-crushing traffic on highway 26 is sufficient. I managed to get up early enough today to ease through a lot of the worse traffic, but that didn’t prevent some jackass in a Nissan Versa from nearly sideswiping me. Twice. At least I got to use my horn the second time.
The Nissan Versa, of course, ingrained into my brain as being the car that Hiro and Ando rent when they come to the U.S., in “Heroes”. Good times.
September 27th, 2007
Getting let go from a job is like finding out you have a terminal disease, it turns out. You have a set amount of time to get your affairs in order, scrub the detritus from your company issued computer, burn all of your potentially non-disclosure-breaking files, and get a swift kick out the door to the great unemployment line in the sky.
Mixing metaphors is also fun. Next: the plunderathon! Yarrrrrr….
June 20th, 2007
Via my friend KK:
June 15th, 2007
A lot of the work that I do is fairly design-intensive. A lof of programming, a lot of ins and outs and what-have-yous. Accordingly, moving my office from “a room filled with people on the phone” to “the second bedroom in the apartment” has been a huge boon; I’m pretty self-directed to begin with, so I get quite a bit done most days.
But not on meeting days.
Usually it’s something like a weekly status meeting. Today’s takes place at 1:00 pm, my time, which is nicely located smack in the middle of the day. Throughout the morning, I’ll be chewing over some problem, perhaps, but I try not to get too involved in anything. By 10 am, I’m just sort of anxiously checking email and catching up on reading. Now, if it’s not a meeting day, I might just plow into the next piece I’m working on, work through lunch, and just go until I’m finished, because I know I’ll have the time.
Then on days like this, that meeting is just looming there, and I know I won’t have time to get any work done until that thing is over with. Hurry up!
May 17th, 2007
