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super scout strikes again!
the IT dept has managed to ruin my day once again. the powers that be have super scouted ebaum's world.
no more tetris. i can understand blocking those that play games all day. but for the past week and a half i have done nothing but print out hard copies of congress papers. just this past weekend i downloaded all the congress final papers because it refuses to give us ftp access. then i had to put the revised final papers zip file on cd because it was too difficult for IT to do it themselves. i even used one of my own cds. i'm fucking tired of this bullshit.
block the games from those people that play them all day not for those people who happen to have some spare time after hours after they have slaved all day doing work that IT refuses to do.
why don't they block those people who play fucking solitaire all day.
note: this IT rant excludes rick and zaida.
// posted by stacey on 6:21:00 PM // |
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Sunday, September 26, 2004
all alone
cynthia and kim are out on travel this week. this means chrissy and i will be left to fend for ourselves. everybody is gonna want something done that they would not normally ask is cynthia were here. sigh.
// posted by stacey on 7:12:00 PM // |
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Saturday, September 25, 2004
friday's are nightmares
it always amazes me that the day we all look forward to when the week starts turns out to be a nightmarish day and the nightmare usually begins at about 3:00pm. just when you think you are in the clear and really start thinking about how great your weekend will be because your not at work.
well yeaterday at 3:00pm on the dot it happened. i discovered that all the revised final papers i uploaded to the congress site the past month or so were not available for download. looking deeper i realized that this meant our vendor also did not receive them. i was upset but not overly concerned because i kept a backup of all the files i uploaded. then reality hit. if this wasn't working for congress it wasn't working for any conference. more importantly it wasn't working for the conferences that we already completed. meaning that when chrissy and i replied to the author saying that we have uploaded your revised paper, we lied so to speak.
i love our programmers because they have put together a very good tool, but when you reply to my help desk email with "The files are in the server, it just not included in the zip file, because I program it to zip all final papers submitted on that day, but not updated on that day." now, common sense says if we allow revised final papers to be submitted there is a reason why we do so. why wouldn't you zip the files so that our vendor can download them? because it is much more fun to just go through the motions without any reason? because we like to give our authors a false sense of security? think damn it!
at least we have the congress files before it is too late, i don't what is going to happen with the nano and design confeences when the authors realise that fatal errors that needed to be removed from their papers are in the proceedings. things that can get people fired for publishing wrong figures and results.
i'm still in shock a day later.
// posted by stacey on 10:50:00 AM // |
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Thursday, September 23, 2004
i'mb dwoowing (i'm drooling)
today and two cavities filled. one on each side of my lower jaw. this meant novicane on both sides. the result was that i couldn't feel my tounge or my entire lower jaw. this also prevented me from talking in any nornal manner. chrissy said i sound retarded. this did not make me feel better because i had a meeting to go to today. cynthia, fortunately, was also going to this meeting so i had her talk for me. by the end of the meeting i could feel half of my tounge.
the other unfortunate side effect of this was that i somehow agreed to tape survivor for my dentist. now if you know me, you know i do not watch reality tv. all i can think is that the novicane got the better of me. so right now in another survivor is recording away and tomorrow morning i will drop off the taped to my dentist. his plan is to watch it with family on th evening of yom kippur -- very jewish of him.
but he did take care of both in one day so i don't have to back until my cleaning in six months.
// posted by stacey on 8:42:00 PM // |
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Saturday, September 18, 2004
i'm becky's bitch
sorry oprah, as much as i would love to be your bitch and get all the nice expensive things you can give me, i'm becky hammon's bitch now.
after the liberty game against the indiana fever at radio city becky threw her wrist band out into the audience. well that is what she made it look like. she really was throwing it to me -- honest.
the little white sweaty wrist band is now in a zip lock bag that i just happened to have thanks for my need to take numerous tylenol during work. as much as i love being becky's bitch the thought of putting her sweaty wrist band in my pocket was little gross, i'm sure becky's sweat smells nice but ew. i didn't want my pocket all wet with her sweat. hence the placement in the zip lock bag. it's not in their for posterity reasons. if i'm gonna get her sweat on me i want it to be in a different way.
i'm happy the liberty made it into the playoffs, although last year when they didn't make the playoffs i was happy i got the 790 bucks back cuz that allowed me to get my ipod. we'll see how far they make it this year. i really do want them to win it all but getting some of the money back to buy the new ipod would be nice too.
so i guess if i were oprah's bitch i wouldn't be facing this dilemna. but if i am becky's bitch i could go to the games for free.
i wonder if i could be both of their bithces.
// posted by stacey on 11:55:00 AM // |
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Wednesday, September 15, 2004
over 900 channels
and there is nothing on. i totally blame this on major league baseball for scheduling the yankees to play during the day, the only day game in major league baseball today btw. so my one reason for wanting to go home besides my comfy sofa, my lovable pets and my totally awesome bed was ruined.
sure i could watch law & order: svu reruns or mississippi masala again, but somehow i just couldn't get into them. i did watch barry manilow on oprah and did go straight to amazon to order her new book club selection, the good earth by pearl s. buck. which for some reason i don't remember reading.
so now it is raining and the only thing for me to do is blog. so here are some updates from previous blogs.
cynthia and pvd update: although confidential mediation was long and both are taking it seriously. we actually had our first staff meeting in nine months. and get this we will have one evry tuesday. this i know is a direct result of mediation. the cool thing about it is that mary grace doesn't seem to happy about it. cynthia is also being realy extra nice to pvd. she gave him the "happy" laugh today. chrissy and i are not too sure if we like all this happiness and laughter, it is very strange. i still know that cynthia would rather kill pvd than be nice to him. but if it brings results, i'm all for it.
muffin update: i am making a conscious effort to eat my muffin (lol, i could really go elsewhere with that statement but won't.) every morning. the past two days i have evn finished it before 9:30am.
conference toolbox update: we still don't have programmers and are beginning to find more things that need to be done to improve. patrick doesn't even say hello to us anymore.
litter box update: still rules!
asme update: still sucks!!!!
// posted by stacey on 8:29:00 PM // |
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Monday, September 13, 2004
oprah's bitch
oprah gave everyone in her audience a pontiac g6 as the kick off to her wildest dreams season. right now my wildest dream is to become her btich so i can get in on the action. she doesn't need steadman, she needs me! or she could just buy me stuff.
// posted by stacey on 8:10:00 PM // |
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Wednesday, September 08, 2004
i want to quit
there are days when i receive an email that clearly demonstrates that there are only three people who care about the conference toolbox.
"Phil/Cynthia - I just want to confirm that as we talked about last spring and a couple of times this summer, Manoher's assignment for work on the small revisions to the Conference and Journal Toolbox projects has ended as of this week."
this leaves us without any programmers assigned to work on the toolbox. we still have a major upgrade that needs to be completed and have daily maintenance that needs to be done. it seems that because codes and standards is willing to pay money they can get whatever they want.
of course the folks at this lovely company still want all the conferences we sponsor to use the toolbox, but no one wants to actually support us.
if it weren't for cynthia and chrissy i would quit today!
// posted by stacey on 8:25:00 AM // |
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Saturday, September 04, 2004
the highlight of my vacation
yesterday it finally arrived -- the self-cleaning litter mate plus cat litter box.
now that i have it i am wondering why it took me so long to get it. the cat goes into the box to do its stuff and then 10 minutes later the box automatically rakes it into a little disposable container. this is pure genius.
the first cat to use it yesterday was princess. i carefully followed her into the bathroom and watched her at work. she in turn watched me watch her and was amazed at why i was amazed at what she was doing. when the 10 minutes finally came and the rake went to work her little clump was gone!
i did realize that my cats use the litter box frequently during the night as i was woken up a few times by the rake going to work and the fact that the little disposable box is almost full.
this was definitely the highlight of my vacation and that is sad.
// posted by stacey on 1:48:00 PM // |
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Friday, September 03, 2004
another thing i learned on vacation
ever since i had to put humphrey to sleep i have been worried about julie and her being alone all day. well i learned on vacation that i don't have to worry too much. apparently julie and princess the cat spend most of the day together. today i got proof.
// posted by stacey on 1:48:00 PM // |
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my vacation is almost over :(
a sure sign that i have to start dealing with reality is that i bought my september train ticket yesterday. this means that i do in fact have to go to work next week.
today is friday another sign that i have to go to work next week. how is it possible that 8 days have already passed? how is it possible that i have done so little to my bedroom? all the the grand plans that i had for redesigning it and only half of it has been done. i'm no where near to actually painting the walls let alone rearranging the furniture. i would have to say that the most productive thing i have done is put all of my flip-flops in the shoe tree thing on my closet door. they do look really nice in it though.
but i know what caused my lack of progress. it was the fact that target and sears did not have any nice wood hangers left. in particular wood pant hangers. this sent me into a severe depression. this meant that the grand plan for re-organizing my closet by clothing type and color would not happen and left me stretched out on my bed and staring at my closet imagining what could have been. all the pants that i have purchased in the past year still spread across the top of my dresser also imagining what could have been. sigh.
i will give it one more try today, but i refuse to use plastic hangers that will clash with the modern art house feel i want to give my bedroom. damn those college students buying all the wooden hangers. like anyone uses hangers in college.
// posted by stacey on 11:37:00 AM // |
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Wednesday, September 01, 2004
demon aspects
one of my quilty pleasures when i am on vacation and stay at home is to watch reruns of buffy. in today's episode buffy made contact with a demon's skin and contracted a demon aspect -- the ability to hear other people's thoughts. while fun at first she starts to loose her mind because she is just hearing constant chatter.
well it got me thinking about ho wneat it would be to give cbc some of this demon aspect so that she could hear phil's thoughts. of course she would have the ability to turn this on and off as needed.
i wonder what phil's thoughts would be? probably something like i'm the greatest director ever, i'm the boss and you're not.
he's such a jerk.
// posted by stacey on 7:17:00 PM // |
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i'm sad
my vacation is half way over. :( of course i'm writing this from my bed while watching ellen so it can't be all bad. but the thought of actually having to go back to work on tuesday is very sad.
// posted by stacey on 10:50:00 AM // |
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