Kevin's Watch

Damelon wrote:Auleliel, I'm in NE Illinois about 5 miles south of the Wis border. Wasn't a lot of snow, but it was it was a nasty wind.

It certainly was a nasty wind. Nearly blew me over in the parking lot several times. I play viola for my church's choir, and it's amazing how well a viola case can catch the wind. I almost flew to church.

I had a crown replacement thingy recently, but am currently saddled with a temporary crown until the real one comes in. It came off last night eating a damn cookie. Now I have to schedule to have it cemented back on. Bah!

Cag, in the meantime, you can use some of the cement old folks get for their dentures. (It's pretty common for a temporary crown to come off...)

I feel:

I feel odd. Lots of mixed feelings today. I'm not supposed to know but I'm being transferred to another store so I need to act surprised when my immediate boss tells me this. I'm being transferred because there is a serious need for my attitude, enthusiasm and customer service skills at the new store. Unfortunately it's not one in SF... yet. I was also told that as soon as something opens at one of the SF stores it's all mine. That makes me happy. I also know something about the results of the drama that has been going on at my current store for the past few days. I think it is too soft. I hope things don't get worse. Anyway, I'm supposedly going to the new store in the next two to three weeks. I'm a little nervous having been told about the reason. Ah well, it is what it is.

That's quite a compliment, Jennifer

The sign of a valued employee, if they are doing that.

Jenn is the OD Fixer. Good for you! They'll be moving you into district management in no time!

Oh, I just realized I forgot to mention that Magickmaker turned in her thesis on Sunday. I am sooooo relieved -- no more tearful phone calls about that bloody project! I think she has one more final to take and then she's done for the semester.

And...suspicions confirmed. We nailed down the Yule plans last night; I'm driving to Roanoke. Sigh.

Peeved.

Relocated to a new office building earlier this week. First of all, I am now in a cubicle instead of an office. This is a mixed thing. Most of the staff who are on contract (as opposed to real employees) are two-to-a-cube, but I at least I have one to myself. OTOH, losing that door is means more distractions, less temperature control, and a certain lessening of intangible status.

That's not what has my dander up, though. When I moved into the new space, one of the personal effects I left on my desk the first evening, a nice set of retractable ear buds, was gone the next morning. I cannot believe that people in a professional organization like this would pinch something off a colleague's desk!

Savor Dam wrote:That's not what has my dander up, though. When I moved into the new space, one of the personal effects I left on my desk the first evening, a nice set of retractable ear buds, was gone the next morning. I cannot believe that people in a professional organization like this would pinch something off a colleague's desk!

Where my mom works, the cleaning staff sometimes took stuff from people's cubicles before they got lockable cabinets for the employees (they only got the cabinets because they needed a place to store confidential patient files, though). Do you have a drawer or cabinet you could lock your stuff up in in the future? It stinks that people are so darn untrustworthy, and it stinks that somebody stole your ear buds. I hope you somehow manage to get them back.


I'm feeling slightly more confident about my probability for employment in the near(ish) future.

Still have yet to find a job. We won't have any money to pay rent by the first. Now it's looking like we will be moving back in with the in-laws.

It's been a pretty soul-crushing holiday season at our place.

I know how it feels. I've been staying at a friend's house since April, right after I lost my job for the 3rd time since 2008. I had a career, but my field got nuked by the bursting of the housing bubble. For me, it's been a downward spiral since my marriage started collapsing in 2000. I thought I had hit rock bottom when i got divorced in 2005, but now I find myself struggling just to stay out of jail for failure to pay child support, which is very difficult when I don't have a job.

Auleliel wrote:Where my mom works, the cleaning staff sometimes took stuff from people's cubicles before they got lockable cabinets for the employees

It occurred to me that it may have been the cleaners, or the moving crew that was relocating some of my other co-workers...but I did not want to openly suggest such, lest it be viewed as class-prejudice. Whether it was a fellow technology geek or someone in a service/support role, they must have really wanted those ear buds. The repercussion to their karma will come in the fullness of time.

Auleliel wrote:Do you have a drawer or cabinet you could lock your stuff up in in the future?

I do. It was the first night, and I had not taken possession of the cabinet keys yet...and I am not accustomed to having to lock up personal gear I use every day. Confidential papers, yes -- 15 years in government agencies made information security second-nature to me -- but I have never had to worry about my stuff!

Auleliel wrote:I'm feeling slightly more confident about my probability for employment in the near(ish) future.

Yay! I take it you are not pushing for the overseas assignment at this time? Things there looked a bit risky of late...

Savor Dam wrote:

Auleliel wrote:I'm feeling slightly more confident about my probability for employment in the near(ish) future.

Yay! I take it you are not pushing for the overseas assignment at this time? Things there looked a bit risky of late...

Well... Actually, I may have a phone interview tonight with a representative from a school in Gyeongju, SK. Gyeongju is about as far away from NK as it is possible to get and still be in SK (it's closer to Japan than it is to Seoul). I've been monitoring the NK-SK situation, and I think that it's not going to flare up in the near future--at least not in the next year or so, and as it'd be a one year contract, I think I'll be ok.
I've been thinking and consulting and praying, and I really think this is what I'm supposed to be doing right now.

Payed too much for a bad sandwich. at least the old lady's was good.
Wont go back to that place again...

meh.

As long as your lady had a good sandwich...

Care to say where this was so that those of us who occasionally get to Oly will know where to avoid?

JazFusion wrote:Still have yet to find a job. We won't have any money to pay rent by the first. Now it's looking like we will be moving back in with the in-laws.

It's been a pretty soul-crushing holiday season at our place.

Sorry to hear that, Jaz. There isn't really anything I can do, but I would if I could.

The economy still sucks. Batty and her girlfriend are working right now, but they're holiday-help positions -- who knows whether they'll be kept on after the New Year? Sigh. Jaz, I'm hoping for a *much* better 2011 for you and your family.

Magickmaker finished her finals yesterday. She drunk-dialed me at midnight lastnight while walking back to her apartment from a friend's dorm room. I suppose I should be glad that she called her *mother* and not some random guy....

Savor Dam wrote:As long as your lady had a good sandwich...

Care to say where this was so that those of us who occasionally get to Oly will know where to avoid?

Near the mall, it's a place called iTalia.. I guess it'd be okay for a one-time meal with visiting friends or something, but there are way better choices around here for less money.

I'd reccomend Vic's or Old School pizzarias, and Wallys Subs and Sandwiches.

can i hide here for a while?