Posts Tagged ‘work’
iTunes is my friend
I hadn’t been speaking to iTunes in awhile. I had ignored it for months before I got my new PC at work, and I basically ignored it until today. And then I realized that my new PC probably wouldn’t have the same mysterious sharing problem that my old one did when [Read More]
Stock photos on websites…why?
My employer has a new website. Apparently, this is the face of our organization or the community we serve: And these are two other faces that represent us and the work we do and our mission: I just don’t understand. Thankfully, there is the Firefox AdBlock plugin, so [Read More]
The Inflation Calculator
The Inflation Calculator A fun tool to look at while pondering one’s annual performance review… [Read More]
Dual-Core, Baby!
I just got a new PC at work. Now, just about anyone in a position similar to mine has a laptop, and my teammate and I both asked for laptops; we had been asked for our preference. But we got new desktops anyway. On the bright side, it’s a sweet machine, a Dell [Read More]
End of the 5-day work-week
But most of these days off are due to Duke holidays… Workdays: 12/18-22: 4 12/25-29: 3 1/1-5: 4 1/8-12: 2 (taking three vacation days for moving) 1/15-19: 4 [Read More]
Pimping my cube
I just realized that the panels in my cube are easily interchangable I have two whiteboard panels that I have to (sigh) get up to write on. So I switched one of them with the non-functioning, utterly useless fabric panel to the right of my monitor. Not that I ever use my [Read More]
Vacation time
I must be very used to being a contractor and not being able to take time off and still get paid, because by the end of November, I will have accumulated 11 vacation days. And despite my best efforts to be a sickly slacker, I still have 3 sick days stored up. On a [Read More]
Back from maternity leave
There’s a director coming back from a long maternity leave tomorrow, and there’s a big banner in her cube for people to sign and welcome her back. I wrote: It’s awesome that Namibia let you bring the baby back here! …because Baby Suri jokes are [Read More]
