So today was the last day at my old job. spent the morning going through my office, making sure all the drives were scrubbed of my stuff. swept and swiffered my side of the office. it needs more swiffering. it actually needs a heavy duty mopping, stripping, and waxing. but i had a broom and [...]
with our home equity, we were paying off a handful of cards, and as part of the agreement we were closign two. the bank was auto-cutting the checks for those to payoff. great. one (the one that is at the same bank as the loan) paid off quickly. the other didn’t. a week or so [...]
today was the farewell lunch i’ve been out to lunch with people from the team (not counting my office mate) … less than a dozen times. and half a dozen of them i’d say were me and dave when he wanted to “sit down and talk with me” about something. usually sometime where i just [...]
since friday i have to turn in my keys and badges before my exit interview at 2pm, i figure friday’s pretty well shot. so today i started the final processes of uploading anything i wanted to keep from my systems to my home server, and started deleting non-work things. flushed out my stored passwords, deleted [...]
forgot to add on yesterday’s post at the weekly meeting yesterday, they always ask for ideas. i didn’t have anything (again; i don’t generally look for earth science things; i watch for computer and server things, since it’s kindof myy job) at some point i made a comment about how to fix some problem, and [...]
my office mate is a slackass. he was in today, and he’s not coming back in this week :o what a slackass. so we said goodbye (he’s one of the people i actually like). made threats to keep in touch and he swore he wouldn’t badger me with things for the office (he probably won’t, [...]
today was the pseudo-annual “dog and pony show” as my boss calls it. it’s where he goes and talks about how great the site is and stuff and tries to con people into giving us money for another year :o amusing thing — i’m way more acknowledged, respected and skilled now that i’m leaving … [...]
so, the dryer’s been running real freakin’ slow. as in, a load (and not one of hte huge full loads or a load full of sweaters and sweatshirts and other sponge-mimicking materials; regular t-shirts and underwear loads here) were taking 1.5-2 hours to dry. it used to take the same 30-45 minutes as the washing [...]
contractors got here ~8:15 or so. got started pretty fast, things looked good. stopped for lunch after testing the new fixtures int eh shower and making sure it all worked, figured they’d come back and finish the drain/spout and a few things, and cover back the holes. thats when things started going bad :/ the [...]
so, finally got the official letter ~1:30 this afternoon, so i printed up my letter (well, after the guy with the 100pg followed by a 250 pg print job finished) and went over to turn it in. the manager was a bit freaked out. but i’d done the letter with a format that effectively pre-rejected [...]