Month: February 2009

Crankypantsing, Photography

Faucet

Shelly

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Disgusting, isn’t it? I wish they would put this sink in a trash bag, if they aren’t going to clean the crusty grime off it.

And that’s about all I have today. I had a two-hour customer service training workshop this morning, which was just about useless. The cranky it inspired is still bubbling away. An adult beverage might help, and maybe a couple of House re-runs. (Seriously. The woman running the workshop made a big production of going around and shaking hands with everyone. Aaack! I nearly turned around and left, when I saw her barreling over toward me. I don’t touch strangers. Period. And I really don’t appreciate them touching me. The whole thing was kind of ironically funny, in retrospect. That sort of overly aggressive sales job is guaranteed to lose me as a customer for life.)

Anyway, about the only good thing I can say about this day is that it’s nearly over. Oh! And I got some doodling done during the stupid workshop.

Teh Enb.

Doodles

Staff Meeting Doodle

Shelly

Staff Meeting Doodle
gel ink in steno pad
9 x 6 inches

The bottom right hand corner is new. I’ve posted the rest of the individual doodles before, I think, but not all of them together. And I almost didn’t post them now, because I had a problem with my scanner. You’d think that HP would be able to pre-load its own drivers and software on its machines, but nooooo, that would be too easy. My old drivers were incompatible with the 64-bit version of Vista, so I had to go a-hunting for new ones. I had a moment of panic, because the only drivers I could find by searching HP’s website were for XP and Windows 2000, neither of which would have been helpful.

I managed to find the correct page for Vista drivers for my scanner model, via a posting to a random message board. Thankfully, there was a direct link to the HP page I needed, because I was unable to find it by searching their website. What a pain in the ass! But at least I was able to (finally!) get the right drivers, and more importantly, I don’t have to go buy a new scanner.

Crankypantsing, Photography

Progress

Shelly

My studio/office is, if not exactly clean, then tidy. I’ve sorted and either put away or thrown away everything that was sitting out. There are still piles and stacks of stuff, but not as many, and the ones that are left are things I’m currently working on. Like, The Wall o’ Basquills.

I also managed to reduce the large stack of Post-Its to three back-to-back pieces. I don’t know why I take so many notes on Post-Its. A woman at work got huffy with me for “wasting” them on notes. WTF?! Um, what the hell else are they for? Granted, most of the notes I take on them don’t end up stuck to anything, but sometimes they do, and it’s nice to have the option of sticking-and-filing them away instead of having to rewrite everything on a proper piece of paper. And anyway, what difference does it make whether I write on a note pad or a Post-It?

And speaking of progress, I have finally managed to get all my files migrated to the new computer, my back-up drive cleaned up and re-formatted, and then everything copied back to that drive, just to be on the safe side. I expected compatibility problems with some of my software, since the new OS is 64 bit instead of 32. The only one, though, was my genealogy program. A) The author has packed up shop, and the program is no longer being distributed or supported (I don’t know if the unlock key will actually work if the program cannot contact the mother ship), and B) the program just plain won’t run on the new machine. Hrmf. So I’m going to have to come up with a Plan B. Unfortunately, most of the programs I’ve tried have done really unattractive things with some of the custom data fields. Not unexpected, but a total pain in the ass nonetheless.

Anyway, where the hell did my weekend go?! I’m not at all ready to go back to work tomorrow.