The training I was participating in at work was experiencing technical difficulties. So, I will be working from home today and tomorrow to complete it.
The tech people refused to allow us access to the necessary ports to participate in the web-based training and all of the computers in our building (except one, it seems) have software that is incompatible with the web-based training software.
I get to finish the last few days of training from my dining room table. I’m not complaining.
Sometimes I think there are certain people in the Workplace who were required to read How to Lose Friends and Irritate People instead of the perennial Carnegie standard.
Meta entry: Just as I thought I was being clever, turns out someone already created my idea.
Your imagination is flying high today, dear Pisces. Intellect and intuition join together in a vivid and explosive union where the whole is definitely greater than the sum of the parts. Don’t waste this energy. Get busy and work on whatever creative projects you’re involved with, or start one if there aren’t any. This energy may not come around again for a while, and you’ll want to make the most of it. Have fun!
Imagine this conversation (think “one lump or two”):
Regular.
Gas?
Bangkok’s got it going on. You can now get traditional massage services when you stop to refuel your car. It seems like a great way to curb road rage, and I look forward to Exxon/Mobil offering this perk in the near future.
I turned on the Superbowl around halftime yesterday to try to catch the commercials. I guess I chose the wrong time. All I saw was some singer (who I later found out was Shania Twain) and No Doubt singing with Sting, murdering an old Police song. The only commercials I saw were spots for network television shows.
That training I was talking about earlier is starting today, while the boss is in London (again).
I broke out the clarinet for a few minutes today. Apparently, I’ve still got it in me. I’ll need to practice a bit to get my chops back, but I like the idea of getting back into music.
I wonder what would happen if I cleaned myself out….
If you’ve tried sending email to me the past twelve hours or so, it is likely the message either bounced or disappeared into thin air. Dreamhost screwed up many people’s email systems. This looks like their biggest mess to date. I’ve done all my web hosting with them since December 1999. Unfortunately, there’s still nobody better out there. If you’ve sent me an email since last night, you might want to try calling instead.
As much as I enjoyed this past weekend in the Poconos, I’m not sure that it satisfied my desire to get away. After all, here I am at work, back where I was before I left. Not only that, but my Freshblogs&tm; Recently Updated list on my side bar still doesn’t seem to be functioning properly.
But it has the potential to be an exciting day. I will be meeting some new people at work today through software training.
In other news, I heard about this on XPN this morning: Naked-Air Boasts All-Nude Miami-Cancun Flight. Vacationers destined for the clothing-optional beaches of Cancun can now let it all hang out on the plane ride there.
Hi. Denise and I in Pennsylvania. There a fire in our hotel room, but we’re not panicking. There’s chocolate and water boiling on the table. It’s nice to be away.
Denise and I decided, sort of at the last minute, to get away. So I booked a hotel room in the Poconos with a nice fireplace. After we arrived earlier this afternoon, we read through the brochures we picked up in the hotel lobby. We started making reservations at various places and drove over to the mountain to check out the snow tubing situation. It was unbelievably crowded; we were told by the ticket sellers that the crowd gets much lighter (and fewer kids show up) after dark.
We decided to go out to eat at a place recommended by one of Denise’s coworkers, Smuggler’s Cove. It was good, but we ate far too much. After dinner, we stopped by the hotel to digest and then headed back out in search of the ice skating rink. It was a bit of a distance, but we found it eventually. I wasn’t too bad after not skating since college, and Denise wasn’t too bad either, considering she had skated only once before.
Now we’re warming up in front of the fireplace, drinking hot chocolate, dialing in at 14.4kbps, and thinking about our plans for tomorrow which include snow tubing as I mentioned above and horseback riding. We had wanted to go horse-drawn-sleigh riding, but unfortunately there isn’t enough snow.
Nevertheless, there are still many things to do up here. I’m glad we decided to get away this weekend. Hope everyone is having a good weekend!