Freaky Friday
Yea, it’s Friday. And do you know what that means? Only two more work days this week. Yes I may have to work all weekend but then for the first time since I started with this company, I will be getting paid well for it. So you won’t hear any complaining from me. One of the supervisors tried to get me all riled up about having to work these extra hours but his attempt failed and I just said “I will work how ever many hours my boss wants”. They hate my positive attitude.
Strange virus:
Something really strange happened yesterday. I work in an office with someone else and the room is divided with one of those “attractive” grey office partitions. We are building a maintenance schedule using a complicated scheduling program. As luck would have it, our company in its infinite wisdom decided to install an update to the program one week before our maintenance outage was to begin. We are having all kinds of problems now and have to reboot our computers several times a day. Yesterday, my coworker was busy making work order entries. All of a sudden I heard him say “what the heck” Then I heard him mumble to himself and I could tell he was getting frustrated. He continued to struggle and I could tell he was becoming angry. I asked what was wrong and he said that the entries he just made were disappearing. He explained that he entered 20 work orders but when he went back and checked there were only 19. He checked again and the number dropped to 17, then 15, then 13 and finally 11. Was this the work of a virus?
The rest of the story: I was in my little cube across the room deleting entries. Right in the middle, my computer crashed so I rebooted. When I searched for my records to delete, it then picked up the ones he had just entered so I was deleting them as fast as he could enter them. What we have here is a failure to communicate. OOPS, sorry.
Strange weather:
It is wet outside. Very wet. There is wet stuff falling from the sky but it isn’t rain. The people on the Weather Channel are sticking to their guns and saying it will be the driest year we have had in a long time. I am beginning to believe that they are all Israelites. I can’t wait to see them standing knee deep in water reporting on the drought. Wake up and smell the coffee guys. Animals are starting to pair up here.
Family time:
My family is starting to read my blog regularly. This really is strange. Not only do they read the final project but my son sits over my shoulder when I am typing like vulture waiting for me to make a typo. He then pounces on it and it really irritates me. I know I am not a good speller but I lose my train of thought when he interrupts me. I prefer to get to the end and then proof read. Spelling and grammar were always my worst subjects and everyone else in my family is better at them than I. I always preferred math. Math is black and white to me. You either got it or you aint I always say.
Have a wonderful day,
Greg
PS it is now “not raining” harder.
Strange virus:
Something really strange happened yesterday. I work in an office with someone else and the room is divided with one of those “attractive” grey office partitions. We are building a maintenance schedule using a complicated scheduling program. As luck would have it, our company in its infinite wisdom decided to install an update to the program one week before our maintenance outage was to begin. We are having all kinds of problems now and have to reboot our computers several times a day. Yesterday, my coworker was busy making work order entries. All of a sudden I heard him say “what the heck” Then I heard him mumble to himself and I could tell he was getting frustrated. He continued to struggle and I could tell he was becoming angry. I asked what was wrong and he said that the entries he just made were disappearing. He explained that he entered 20 work orders but when he went back and checked there were only 19. He checked again and the number dropped to 17, then 15, then 13 and finally 11. Was this the work of a virus?
The rest of the story: I was in my little cube across the room deleting entries. Right in the middle, my computer crashed so I rebooted. When I searched for my records to delete, it then picked up the ones he had just entered so I was deleting them as fast as he could enter them. What we have here is a failure to communicate. OOPS, sorry.
Strange weather:
It is wet outside. Very wet. There is wet stuff falling from the sky but it isn’t rain. The people on the Weather Channel are sticking to their guns and saying it will be the driest year we have had in a long time. I am beginning to believe that they are all Israelites. I can’t wait to see them standing knee deep in water reporting on the drought. Wake up and smell the coffee guys. Animals are starting to pair up here.
Family time:
My family is starting to read my blog regularly. This really is strange. Not only do they read the final project but my son sits over my shoulder when I am typing like vulture waiting for me to make a typo. He then pounces on it and it really irritates me. I know I am not a good speller but I lose my train of thought when he interrupts me. I prefer to get to the end and then proof read. Spelling and grammar were always my worst subjects and everyone else in my family is better at them than I. I always preferred math. Math is black and white to me. You either got it or you aint I always say.
Have a wonderful day,
Greg
PS it is now “not raining” harder.
Comments
We had more snow last night, then some sleet, now it's trying to rain, which means we'll have lots of ice by the time people are gtting off work. I'm so happy and thankful I no longer have to go out into this mess to get to and from work. Have a great week-end.
Hey, thanks for stopping by my rambling. It's always fun to have new commenters!
Love your humorous post - especially the bit about deleting your colleague's entries :)
I'm back online and trying to catch up. It's good to be here reading you again.
Has it stopped "not raining" yet?
Mimi
My hubby & daughter have recently started monitor my typing in that "vulture over the shoulder" stance. Weird!
BTW I'm a blogger, and you will get a visit from me daily!!!
THanks for posting on my blog recently, my new one I mean. I can't believe you found it but I suppose it isn't that hard when it's probably listed on my profile. I was almost hoping no one I know would find it any look at it, but in the end I'm glad you're there. Makes me more accountable! *wink* We can do it!
Kathi