In which I cover four topics of interest only to myself.

Topic the first is: TEH SECKS.

Teh BF’s work schedule was changed about a month ago. Instead of having to be at work at different times each day (he used to start at 10, 10, 11, 11, and then 9 each week), now he gets to show up at the same time – nine AM – all 5 days. It’s probably much easier on him to have a regular schedule.

The bummer is that we only sleep over one night a week now, instead of three or sometimes four. So the nookie schedule? Is suffering.

I just wanted to bitch about that a little. Waah!

Topic the second is: WERK.

In the eighteen months I’ve worked here, I’ve sat in five different places. (The office contains about as many cubic feet as a semi trailer, so there’s really no good reason to be moving around quite so much other than it makes us all feel like we’ve done something tangible, a useful sensation when all you do is push pixels all day.) Monday morning when I rolled in, management stood about four feet from my desk with one of the sales staffers and discussed how best to make him comfortable… in my space!

WTF! I had to wait for a guy to QUIT before I got that space! I was at the end of a hall and had my Christmas lights up and my very own lamp (I bought it myself) and my dog’s blanket and it was awesome, and then right out of the gate on a Monday morning they go and give it to a sales dude?!?!

Talk about being smokin’ pissed off! But valiantly, I adjusted. And quickly, without cursing or quitting!

Long story short, they let me keep my desk instead of making me take one of those cool-looking but useless microwave carts, and did NOT put me under the skylight and did NOT put me where any old walk-in customer can make eye contact with me. (Reception? Doesn’t, most of the time. If you’re sitting where people can see you, you end up having to deal with walk-ins yourself because they give you these piteous “I’ve been standing here for six minutes I just need to make my payment and I’m on my lunch hour and can you please help me?” looks and what are you going to do? Ignore a real live human being making puppy eyes at you? No. You’re gonna go do someone else’s job and hope there’s a good damned reason for it.)

“You can’t fix stupid!”

Anyway! All four support technicians are now in a cute little enclosure together where no one can bother us and we can actually communicate with one another.

Our official tech area whiteboard says, “You can’t fix stupid!” Which is so true, because you totally can’t.

I like it a lot, actually. It’s pretty awesome to be in a tech department instead of in the middle of a sales department. I hate sales.

(Honestly, I would really like to be able to go RIGHT THE HELL OFF on work, but since half the office reads the ‘box I can’t. Which sucks, because bitching about work is really one of the main reasons to have a blog in the first place. If I could only tell you. Srsly. OMG. The hysterically funny posts I could write… this place is a total sit-com. They’d get me fired, but at least you’d get to pee your pants first.)

Topic the third is: TEH WEEKEND!

Tomorrow evening, on my brother’s patio, we’re having a BBQ. True story!

It will be held in honor of both James’ new apartment (he’s been there a month) and KJ’s birthday (which was last weekend). KJ’s gonna cook FODA on his grill, and Lannie and I are somehow going to produce a cake and some side dishes and get the patio swept and the table clean enough to serve food off of. [Yeah, so it’s a prepositional phrase. Whatever.]

I’ve invited everyone I know in the area, which is about twelve people (half of which I’m related to. I need to make more friends). Come on by!

And tomorrow morning I’m gonna give Bindu her first bath in two years. She’s going to HATE it.

Topic the fourth is: …Um, I can’t think of one now.

I’m blogging in between calls at work, and all my work tools went down for 20 minutes due to a server crash (the admin had to abandon his Friday evening and go swap drives around in the data center vault) so I was a little frazzled there for a bit. Now I’ve come back and totally forgotten what I was going to write. I’m sure it wasn’t that interesting anyway.

In lieu of real content, I’ll tell you this: if you read the Temeraire series, be it known that there’s another one out called Empire of Ivory. I’ve got it on my iPod right now! Yay!

Have a fantastically lovely weekend, my babies! I hope the weather is lovely for you, wherever you are.