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Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Monday, September 8, 2008
9/8/08
Today is again a traveling blog. We are in District 3 for a QAR. It has been a little crazy. First of all, TH seems to be talking about beer all day. She is also listening to country music on her MP3 player and made me listen to some song about beer goggles. The D3 guys were pretty funny in of themselves. They started talking about hunting and skinning cows. I was not impressed. All-in-all not a remarkable day. Tomorrow should more of one though.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
9/2/08
Today is a traveling blog. I am down in Orlando. Craziness happened here. Not office craziness but just craziness. So KL and I drove all the way from Tallahassee today to the Turnpike office. We had just checked in and we about to unload the car with all of the training stuff when the office/building manager walks in. She says to us that the EOC (Emergency Operations Management: using plain speak like the governor told us to do.) MIGHT be taking over the auditoriums on thursday because of Hurricane/ Tropical Storm/ Tropcial Depression (whatever) Hannah. Now our class is scheduled for wednesday and thursday in Auditorium B. Then maybe 10 minutes later, the head of the IT department walks in and tells us that EOC WILL be taking the room on thursday and might need it wednesday afternoon. So we call RF and tell him. After a little bit of discussion and whatnot, the class is canceled. We are staying down here for the night since it was 5 when the smoke all cleared. We will therefore drive back to Tallahassee tomorrow morning. Crazy.
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Friday
8/29/08
Not much generally happens on Fridays, especially Fridays before a long weekend. Generally most people either take off or work flex schedules so it makes it a little un-blog worthy. There were a few things that were blog-worthy. (By the way this has become my catch phrase with a few select people around the office.)
Well, of course the morning started with football talk. As mentioned before this will be a staple until what January. I probably won't mention this unless it is exciting.
Later, I went to find MW and LK to ask them if they had a container for our training class next week. We are having a jelly bean guessing thing for the class and we needed a container. This of course turned into a little bit of a crazy conversation in which I just walked away. Later, MW decided to send me an email with text messaging speak in it. I should copy and paste it in here just for laughs.
I also might have offended PO. I told him that his glasses made him look like Harry Potter.
I need to backtrack for this next story. Around July, SB and TM made a poll on when I would get married. SB said July 2, 2009 and TM said July 3, 2010. Anyway, after lunch, SB told me that June 27, 2009 would be a great wedding date for me. I told him he could plan everything that way I could focus on finding a groom. Then he told me I should meet his son, who smokes alot, drinks alot, and smokes other things alot. Not sure why I would want to meet him. Then I was told by SB that I was grumpy old woman. Nothing new.
Later right before I left, PJL came in and asked me if I have ever seen the movie "Serendipity." I told her no. Then she told me the origin of the word. She then said she wanted to find out the origin of the "Three Little Pigs" since it is her favorite fairy tale. She wants to find out who the original author is and whatnot.
Oh yeah, speaking of PJL she came in and asked me to give younger TM some job listings she found for him. I did and he was like why is she trying to find me a new job?
PJL also told me how he dogs got out of their pen and came into her house the other day. She thought someone broke in but in fact her dogs did it. She told me how she likes to keep her dogs mean. I don't know why she tells me these things...
I think that might be it for friday.
Not much generally happens on Fridays, especially Fridays before a long weekend. Generally most people either take off or work flex schedules so it makes it a little un-blog worthy. There were a few things that were blog-worthy. (By the way this has become my catch phrase with a few select people around the office.)
Well, of course the morning started with football talk. As mentioned before this will be a staple until what January. I probably won't mention this unless it is exciting.
Later, I went to find MW and LK to ask them if they had a container for our training class next week. We are having a jelly bean guessing thing for the class and we needed a container. This of course turned into a little bit of a crazy conversation in which I just walked away. Later, MW decided to send me an email with text messaging speak in it. I should copy and paste it in here just for laughs.
I also might have offended PO. I told him that his glasses made him look like Harry Potter.
I need to backtrack for this next story. Around July, SB and TM made a poll on when I would get married. SB said July 2, 2009 and TM said July 3, 2010. Anyway, after lunch, SB told me that June 27, 2009 would be a great wedding date for me. I told him he could plan everything that way I could focus on finding a groom. Then he told me I should meet his son, who smokes alot, drinks alot, and smokes other things alot. Not sure why I would want to meet him. Then I was told by SB that I was grumpy old woman. Nothing new.
Later right before I left, PJL came in and asked me if I have ever seen the movie "Serendipity." I told her no. Then she told me the origin of the word. She then said she wanted to find out the origin of the "Three Little Pigs" since it is her favorite fairy tale. She wants to find out who the original author is and whatnot.
Oh yeah, speaking of PJL she came in and asked me to give younger TM some job listings she found for him. I did and he was like why is she trying to find me a new job?
PJL also told me how he dogs got out of their pen and came into her house the other day. She thought someone broke in but in fact her dogs did it. She told me how she likes to keep her dogs mean. I don't know why she tells me these things...
I think that might be it for friday.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Football
8/28/08
Back again.
Let's see what happened today. Well today was the start of the college football season, so the morning was spent discussing college football. (This will happen for all of the season.) At some point though, MC and DB were discussing a lawn mower that DB is going to be giving MC. It was a little odd.
Later in the morning, we had an office-wide meeting. These are alway super fun! Before the meeting started we took a poll on how long RF would take for his monthly update. It was 20 minutes of rambling. I believe that LK was closest. After that the meeting went into chaos. There was a discussion about how the Assistant Secretary wants a sort-of check in of all employees in case of another weather disaster. This lead to everyone over-analyzing the procedure.
Later, I was printing index cards on KL's computer and I thought I broke her printer (I didn't). Technology really hates me. I think thats about it from today. It was kinda quiet day today.
Back again.
Let's see what happened today. Well today was the start of the college football season, so the morning was spent discussing college football. (This will happen for all of the season.) At some point though, MC and DB were discussing a lawn mower that DB is going to be giving MC. It was a little odd.
Later in the morning, we had an office-wide meeting. These are alway super fun! Before the meeting started we took a poll on how long RF would take for his monthly update. It was 20 minutes of rambling. I believe that LK was closest. After that the meeting went into chaos. There was a discussion about how the Assistant Secretary wants a sort-of check in of all employees in case of another weather disaster. This lead to everyone over-analyzing the procedure.
Later, I was printing index cards on KL's computer and I thought I broke her printer (I didn't). Technology really hates me. I think thats about it from today. It was kinda quiet day today.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
So much....
8/27/08
So much to blog about today.
Let's start with this morning. I went into LK's office this morning to talk to him about donating money to the people in our office that were affected by Tropical Storm Fay. He then asked me what color his shirt was. I said coral and he said isn't that blue? This started a mini-conversation about what color shirt he was wearing. Apparently RM had already had a conversation about prior about the color of his shirt.
Later, I left my office to talk to KL about the training class we will be conducting next week in Orlando. I came back to find nuts on my desk. I asked around and found out that FT had left them there for me. Randomness.
Speaking of randomness, a certain MW decided to take foam and make foam eyes. Why I don't know...
At around the same time I went into LD's office and he was playing weird music (he always is) and he started dancing (well maybe not dancing but moving his upper body).
I really feel the piece de resistance of the day had to be this. Yesterday afternoon, we realized that TL's directory went missing. I asked RF about it and he put in a service request to have it restored. Well, come to find out, PJL decided to rename the directory and move it. So basically when OIS called me I had to tell them it was our bad and the directory was no longer missing.
The day ended when I had to find out what husbands gave their wives anniversary presents because I found out that MC and TM were not giving their respective wives presents for their upcoming anniversaries. I found out that I work with a bunch of unromantic men!
Well, thats it for today...
So much to blog about today.
Let's start with this morning. I went into LK's office this morning to talk to him about donating money to the people in our office that were affected by Tropical Storm Fay. He then asked me what color his shirt was. I said coral and he said isn't that blue? This started a mini-conversation about what color shirt he was wearing. Apparently RM had already had a conversation about prior about the color of his shirt.
Later, I left my office to talk to KL about the training class we will be conducting next week in Orlando. I came back to find nuts on my desk. I asked around and found out that FT had left them there for me. Randomness.
Speaking of randomness, a certain MW decided to take foam and make foam eyes. Why I don't know...
At around the same time I went into LD's office and he was playing weird music (he always is) and he started dancing (well maybe not dancing but moving his upper body).
I really feel the piece de resistance of the day had to be this. Yesterday afternoon, we realized that TL's directory went missing. I asked RF about it and he put in a service request to have it restored. Well, come to find out, PJL decided to rename the directory and move it. So basically when OIS called me I had to tell them it was our bad and the directory was no longer missing.
The day ended when I had to find out what husbands gave their wives anniversary presents because I found out that MC and TM were not giving their respective wives presents for their upcoming anniversaries. I found out that I work with a bunch of unromantic men!
Well, thats it for today...
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Another Day
8/26/08
Today was pretty quiet again. Not much to note. A few things did happen though. First of all, RF asked me if I had a few minutes to talk today. I was a little busy doing things but of course I told him sure. He wanted to show me old documents that he had found in his office. These documents were from the late 80's and early 90's. I am not really sure why he wanted me to see them. They seemed like trash to me to be honest. He spent about 30 minutes talking to me about it. Later, he wanted me to call my boss, DR, to find out if he had a pdf of the business plan poster that is hanging on the wall. When I asked DR about it, he wasn't sure and wanted a picture of it to see if he could find it. We took a picture of it and sent it to him. Also, we realized that TL's pub went missing.
MW came in to talk to DD about facebook of all things. We were all talking about how you can search for people. He mentioned he wanted to find people with webbed feet.
Oh finally, I talked on and off with District 3 since we will be out there in about 2 weeks. I told them how I am a prissy girl. I was told that I am in the South now and I need to be a non-prissy girl. I told them I was from MD and I was having a little bit of an adjustment-problem to the South with regards to food and such. They asked me what I ate and then they told me that they would make me Southern when I came over there. I am not really sure how that will work. I haven't become Southern in the year living down here so I don't think a week over in Chipley will make me Southern, but we will see...
Today was pretty quiet again. Not much to note. A few things did happen though. First of all, RF asked me if I had a few minutes to talk today. I was a little busy doing things but of course I told him sure. He wanted to show me old documents that he had found in his office. These documents were from the late 80's and early 90's. I am not really sure why he wanted me to see them. They seemed like trash to me to be honest. He spent about 30 minutes talking to me about it. Later, he wanted me to call my boss, DR, to find out if he had a pdf of the business plan poster that is hanging on the wall. When I asked DR about it, he wasn't sure and wanted a picture of it to see if he could find it. We took a picture of it and sent it to him. Also, we realized that TL's pub went missing.
MW came in to talk to DD about facebook of all things. We were all talking about how you can search for people. He mentioned he wanted to find people with webbed feet.
Oh finally, I talked on and off with District 3 since we will be out there in about 2 weeks. I told them how I am a prissy girl. I was told that I am in the South now and I need to be a non-prissy girl. I told them I was from MD and I was having a little bit of an adjustment-problem to the South with regards to food and such. They asked me what I ate and then they told me that they would make me Southern when I came over there. I am not really sure how that will work. I haven't become Southern in the year living down here so I don't think a week over in Chipley will make me Southern, but we will see...
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