all lower-case, too.
e.e.friday.
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woo freakin’ hoo, short work week ends today.
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i woke up with a mild headache. first thought was the couple pints i had last night but that can’t be it, those were before 21:00 and i was fine when i went to bed around 22:30. next thought: weather change? it is supposed to rain tomorrow, so that’s a possibility, i suppose.
final thought: bah. slamming ibuprofen like it’s going out of fashion.
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the lab’s wet-chemistry supervisor leaves today, going to work for a government lab, which means killer benefits and monday holidays out the wazoo, which would rock.
when i worked in managed care in salt lake city, the company at the time had something like 15 holidays each year, many of them the well-known monday holidays (presidents’ day, memorial day, labor day, columbus day). we also had good friday off, which was odd in the city that functioned as the world hq of the lds church.
the lab observes new year’s day, then nothing until memorial day. we’re open on days most of our clients are closed, and stupider still, the post office and banks are closed. if only ups and fedex would shut down on most of those days too, so we could say since we can’t send or receive anything, no point in being open at all.
but i digress. the actual point of this little rambling:
the wet-chem supervisor’s departure is one more in a long list of recent resignations which have left the lab (not just the seattle office, but the entire west coast network) in a state of disarray, which in turn leads more people to resign, increasing the chaos, &c.
it’s an evil circle that looks to be continuing indefinitely.
must find new gig toot sweet.
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i’ve noticed that most people who feel cold in seattle are reacting not to the temperature itself, but to the overcast or lack of same. this morning is overcast, gray and dry, not particularly cooler or warmer than any other days this week. but there are space heaters on at several desks because with the lack of sunlight, people feel colder.
i’m starting to formulate a theory that perhaps it’s really 70° here year-round, but the 9-hour days of midwinter feel like it’s low 40s and we bitch about heat in the summer because we have 16 hours of sunlight.
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katharine asked me tuesday morning to install windows live messenger on my work pc so she could talk to me from work.
i installed it that same day and she hasn’t been online since.
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speaking of fries, i’m really craving them. maybe that’ll be the centerpiece of my decision on what to do for lunch today, since i forgot the container that has my veal/mushrooms/rice leftovers.
at least, however, the container is still in the fridge. i didn’t leave it on the counter, which is something i have done a couple times in the past, so i can still have the leftovers for lunch another day.
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i started posting photos of our labor day weekend trip to victoria, bc, on my flickr account. eventually i may write about the trip too, but since i haven’t even finished writing up the july oregon-and-california trip log, don’t hold your breath.
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when i write these posts, i first type the bit of code that produces the little colons-and-bullets divider, then copy and paste the code several times so i won’t have to type it again. then i notice i try to write as many little randomy bits as necessary to fill in the spaces between the dividers i pasted.
i’m having trouble filling them today.
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yeah, i’m done for now. happy day-before-the-weekend, and see how many things i couldn’t think of today:
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