There are days, even when you just put in a normal eight hour day, that you could tell yourself, “Go ahead, blow off the gym today. No big deal.” Especially for me, this month, since my mom isn’t home, I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sure, I’d have preferred to sleep late today (and with my mom still in the nursing home she’s not here at the house to wake me up and make breakfast*) but I don’t really mind helping out our department and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’d forgotten just how long and (unnecessarily) boring these types of meetings can be. Yes, it’s extremely helpful when the sales force can get together with the marketing department to agree upon what and how we best can produce products[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Annoying. That word just about sums up, not only today, but many of the days that I’ve had to work on this iMac at American Textile Company. I’m not saying that they should have provided me with a brand new[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I could understand during my first month here, getting small, non complicated projects to work on, as I found my way around and learned their (overly complicated) systems. But I’m in my third month now and my manager continues to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It was like a gut punch when I heard about this. In all my years of professional work (and that’s a lot of years at a lot of places) I’ve never had this happen to anything I’ve worked on. Like[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I don’t know why, but I’m fascinated by living creatures who live and somehow survive in areas that by all rights they shouldn’t be. Like this spider here, in the pristine meeting room. There’s nothing for him here. He’d be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In the nearly two full months that I’ve been here I’ve had times, sometimes days, where I feel really, really dumb. The complicated ways they place their files, not knowing much about the products and packaging (and to be truthful,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I must admit, the first few days that I’d heard this train whistle (and believe me, it’s VERY loud) I was a bit startled. But I adjusted pretty quickly, as has everyone else here. Though there are times when I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Nothing more I can really add here, so here’s a (blurry) photo of my Gumby coffee mug I’m drinking out of in panel one.