Chugging Along

[bjarvis]

Monday was a day of relaxation, more or less.

The weekend was fairly busy with the square dance fly-in but I needed a great deal of catch-up sleep and crashed early Sunday evening.

Monday morning, I dropped Ben Rubright and cuyahogarvr off at BWI so they could fly to Florida and Ohio respectively. Flight conditions were excellent and both arrived safely.

Work was mercifully light: while there were a handful of issues in e-mail, most were dealt with fairly quickly. The biggest snag of the day? While I was working from another office all of last week, I had given the key to my filing cabinets to a colleague who works late mornings through early evenings so that she could get at some hardware and supplies in case of emergency. While I didn't need the equipment myself Monday morning, I did want my earphones so I could listen to my podcast. Boo hoo.

With cuyahogarvr in Cleveland rather than looking after us, kent4str and I were left to starve to death and wallow in our own filth all evening. Somehow, we managed to tough it out but it wasn't pretty. We did manage to get the DVD player connected to the TV --it had been disconnected since we added Dish Network a while ago and didn't really care to get everything cabled back together again. To celebrate our electronic success, we watched "The Mist," a cheery & uplifting family movie involving normal people struggling for survival against christian fundie whack jobs and monsters from another dimension. Fun for everyone.

Sadly, we didn't win the Powerball last Saturday so it's back to work... *sigh*

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cuyahogarvr as houseboy

[trawnapanda.livejournal.com]

With cuyahogarvr in Cleveland rather than looking after us, kent4str and I were left to starve to death and wallow in our own filth all evening

What a couple of guys! Aren't you spozed to be highly evolved homosexuals? How did you two manage to survive without him?

(I know, I know: you could never find the chicken stock, for starters)

Re: cuyahogarvr as houseboy

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

(I know, I know: you could never find the chicken stock, for starters)


It's the reverse... I could find the chicken stock before he moved in. It went AWOL during the merger when we had to shuffle pantry items and kitchen goods and I utterly lost track of it. I've got it figured out now although I still forget to check the basement pantry for some canned goods from time to time. And the freezer was never so well organized before cuyahogarvr arrived!

[trawnapanda.livejournal.com]

I was browsing the Washington Post online this evening, minding my own business, when I notice that the corporation you so charmingly describe as "Mortagage a-go-go" just posted a 2.2 billion (with a B) loss. Is this likely to have domestic implications for silver spring?

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Probably not. We had already cut the support staff pretty severely as part of routine operations a year ago so there are other projects and departments which are more likely to get axed than mine. If nothing else, I have more seniority and better performance reviews than a lot of others so the cutting would have to be fairly severe to catch up to me. Still, I'd cheerfully accept a severance package right now, just for the change of pace.

There's noise about another early retirement package being presented which will clean out more of middle and upper management.