It’s been a while
Posted by monogodo | Filed under Blogging, Life, Personal News, Pets, iPhone
I see that the last post I had was back in July, almost 3.5 months ago. It’s not that nothing’s been going on, or that I’ve been too busy to post, I just haven’t felt like it. Although, there were a couple times I tried to post from work and got an error, so I gave up. But I’m back now.
The MacBook is working well for me. I did drop it on the concrete floor one evening while it was running, but nothing was damaged. I’m more careful now.
We moved at the end of July to a new loft in a new(er) building. Our old loft was in a 100+ year old building. Our new loft is in a 50+ year old building. It’s a smaller space, but the layout is very efficient, and we like it.
Work is work. Nothing new there.
We’re now down to two cats. We had to have Lorenzo put down at the end of July. His ear cancer had come back, and his kidneys were failing. The best thing for him was to humanely have him euthanized. It was the most difficult thing I’ve ever had to do, but it was the right thing to do. Lance & Arianna have adapted to his loss fairly well, but I can tell they miss him.
I got an iPhone recently. It’s great, as I expected. I’ve downloaded lots of free apps for it. I’m afraid of downloading non-free apps because I don’t want to run up a huge iTunes bill.
We went to the NYC area for a week from the 18th through the 25th. I’ll go into detail in another post.
Tags: iPhone, miscellany, moving, Pets, shopping, WorkRelated posts
Email for Dummies
Posted by monogodo | Filed under Work
I received an email at work today from a client. She had attached an Excel file to it that was a poster that she wanted us to print for her. I saved the file, then deleted it from the email, because it was a large file and we have an Inbox size limit in Lotus Notes. I didn’t think anything of it, because that’s what I always do.
An hour later, I received an email from a different client. As I was opening it, I saw that the previous email still was listed as being over 1MB in size. So I opened it, too. There was still an attachment listed. I knew I’d deleted it, so I looked closer. I discovered that she’d attached the file to an email which she forwarded to me that already had the same file attache to it.
Tags: WorkRelated posts
It’s good to know you’re valuable
Posted by monogodo | Filed under Work
Earlier this week I was talking with the Small Docs manager at our SuperStore up the street about different open positions in the company, and he asked why I didn’t apply for the open Docutech Operator position he had. I told him that I love what I do and where I do it, and that getting my boss to approve my transfer from this location to his would be like trying to pull teeth from a rabid badger. I figured that was the end of it and didn’t think about it any more.
Well, I just got off the phone with him. He told me that he decided he wanted me for that position, so instead of trying to convince my boss to let me transfer, he’d go over her head. Yeah, that didn’t work. He got laughed at. He was told that I was her pet, and that pulling me from the Nameless Merchant would essentially kill the contract with them. Since they do over $1M per year, losing the contract would be a bad thing.
Tags: Work