I’m logging onto my blog this morning and I notice I have 19 messages for moderation. While I do comments often, I never get that many all at once. As expected, 15 of them were spam. Thanks to “message moderation” in WordPress, I just select, click, and away it goes!
Author: Moby
Tick Tock, What Time Is It?
Well, the week is finally coming to an end soon. Thank god! I’m so ready for a weekend of nothing but relaxing. Well, with the exception of chores. I’ve been neglecting all week so some time will have to be spent catching up on that crap. I’ve been slowly trying to catch up on my blogrolling but I’m only halfway there. It is amazing how much you miss. Yowsers!
As bad as it has been, I’m feeling for roblog. Seems like things are reaching the limit on his side of things. I’m keeping my fingers crossed things settle down soon for him.
I’m having lunch w/Mostovic tomorrow. I haven’t seen him in weeks except in passing. It seems sorta busy for everyone right now.
I could write a whole chapter about work but I don’t feel like it. We can save it and crack it open later when I’m desperate for a topic.
Come to Jesus Meeting
I had to have a meeting w/my trainee today. After just two days of hard core training, it has become obvious that she isn’t going to make it. After a very painful session of crying, we moved beyond it and tried to give her other options.
This is one part of my job I detest. More later when I’m in a better mood.
Tired
I am so tuckered out. It is only Tuesday and I’m already dead tired. Between gym, work, union meetings, charities, and training I’m beat. I can’t wait for the weekend so I can do absolutely nothing!
Moby Dates
I’ve been experimenting w/online calendars lately. The ones that come w/Wordpress themes seem to only list blog entries. Outlook doesn’t offer any sort of online version unless you are using an exchange server. Kinda overkill for just one person.
I was about to give up until I remembered Mozilla had come out w/a calendar program, Sunbird. As luck would have it, they based in on the internet’s iCal standard so I am able to update my calendar on my laptop and have it instantly published to the web. Wahoo! A couple of cons though. The major one, I can’t host it on my own domain. It has to be done via the ical servers. Well, thats the case for now anyway. I may discover a way eventually. I know you are just dying to see it right? Well, click on the “calendar” link in my Useful Bits section. What a glamorous life I live eh?
My ultimate goal is to have everything on my domain. Contacts, schedules, blog, files, etc. What better way to be truly mobile? Anywhere I have computer/internet access, I’ll have access to all my info or files. It also make shopping for laptops easy. I won’t need huge storage, just good processing power.
See! Moby does think ahead occasionally.
Third floor Lingerie!
I keep having this reoccuring dream. Last night was the third time in a year. I always seem to be working in a high rise building and any time I take an elevator, the elevator seems to be hellishly out of control. Forgetting for a moment that I always seem to be a childish CEO in the dream, I’ve never been afraid of elevators. In my dream, I’m not even falling. It is more like the elevator is loosely attached to its cables and it goes sideways as well as up and down. I always end up ok in the dream but I find it odd that I’ve had the same dream several times now.
There was an earthquake last night. I wonder if that has something do with it. A small earthquake mind you. But not being from here, it always seems to wake me up. I can’t remember if there was one last time I had the dream. However, I’ll make note for next time. Maybe my subconscious is tying the effects of an earthquake to the shaking of an elevator, who knows.
Latte Covered Jeans
I bought a new bag for my laptop today. My old gap bag is beginning to wear thin and I wanted something w/padding. I wanted something big enough for my 17″ notebook but sleek enough to not look like I’m going hiking for a week. Well, not being able to find exactly what I wanted, I compromised. I ended up buying a soft cover for the laptop and buying a traditional backpack to put it in.
So then, I managed to knock over a guys coffee w/it. Most of his drink went down my pants leg however, a sizeable amount splattered all over his clipboard full of papers. God, I felt like such a klutz. I apologized profusely and bought him a new latte but I still felt just awful. He was very gracious about it but that doesn’t make me feel any better. I can be such an absent-minded Cletus at times.
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I think Im in burnout mode. Ive been so busy this past week, I didnt plan anything w/anyone this weekend. No friends, no Mostovic (he was busy anyway), no one. I had hoped to just hang out and socialize today but the weather changed and its all rainy & muggy. So much for that idea. My schedule next week is shaping up to be even worse. Not only do I have several labor meetings planned at work, Ive taken on my next to last trainee in remedial for a week.
She was not doing so well at the end of her rotations. I pleaded her case and theyve given her to me for one week. My goal is to raise her competency level enough to warrant continued remedial training. Otherwise, she gets the boot. It is sorta her own fault. She waited too long before complaining that shed had problems w/her previous trainers. I think she was hoping to sit w/me on her own time but I had my own trainee to work with. So, in an effort to get her up to speed, Ive agreed to give up an hour out of my own time every day before work and drill her on problem areas. No pressure right?
Drama Mamma
Well, I originally planned to go across the bay today and lay out. However, due to an unexpected overhaul of the BCC website, that didn’t happen. Instead, I’m here at Le Bon Gateaux typing my little fingers to the bone. I’ve been at it almost 3 hours now and I’m almost done. Arrrrrrgggh!
The committee chairman decided to change the logo for the entire domain. There are 45 separate pages to update! Not to metion, the other 40 or so that haven’t been posted yet. I knew I should have made the pages dynamic instead of static. Of course, that would have meant a helluva lot more work to setup. Without some sort of compensation, that was just too much to tackle. So now I’m stuck playing tedious Tom. To be honest, I don’t like the new logo much. However, it is not my site so I put what they tell me.
Shameka Strikes Back!
Shameka aka Bobby at le bon Gateaux during one of our Sunday blog sessions. She dun gone crazy!
Meanwhile, back in the real world, my week is slowly coming to an end. Saturday I’m going to a union rally during the day at Mission High School here in the city. This is a big deal for us as it is an ‘open meeting’ which is just a fancy way of saying everyone from the union is asked to attend if they can. The city is sure to have their bean counters out in force to see how many folks turn out. They use this to judge how motivated the local membership is.
Sunday, I’m hoping to get down the the Eagle for the beer bust. Not for the liquor mind you as I detest the taste of beer. I just like to socialize and its been months since I’ve had a chance to go.