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Movin' on up
Apparently I have metamorphosed into a full-time administrative assistant. In addition to pushing purchase orders around, I'm now in charge of maintaining the maintenance department's times in the payroll software. Because of the ongoing change in management companies, there's an interim period where everyone writes their hours down and I enter ( Read more... ) -
Purchase orders
Why does the corporate office issue edicts like this? When I create a purchase order, I can start it by picking from a list of items we've ordered before or I can start a "blank" PO for stuff we've never ordered. Corporate wants us to not use blank POs unless it's an emergency. Or maybe never. The problem is that I don't know who is supposed to ( Read more... ) -
Mood, date, work
I've been extra depressed lately. And extra exhausted. There's been a lot more conventions and conferences lately, so I've been run ragged checking the temperatures in all the spaces as often as every hour. My legs and feet are fucking sore every single day and Dad keeps dragging me out to fix more air conditioners on the side. It's been the ( Read more... ) -
A date!
I'm in the process of trying to schedule what I realized earlier could be called a date. I met the girl in question at a kink event and since then we've chatted online and seen each other regularly at karaoke. This week, I had just sat down next to her when she said, "Gosh, I'm surrounded by hot guys!" I thought, "Wait... There's only me and ( Read more... ) -
The paint debacle
Recently, I had to deal with an order for three different colors of paint. The quote was so high, several of us were sure that the paint company must've put us down for 20 5 gallon buckets of paint instead of 20 gallons. But, no, it turns out the paint really is $30 a gallon. Dafuq. Anyway, word came down from on high that at that price we ( Read more... ) -
Job!
I'm employed! Another week or so will make it three months. I work in maintenance at a hotel downtown. I got hired as extra labor to replaced the hotel's aging, decrepit pneumatic HVAC controls with digital ones, but have the times some emergency or another pulls me off that project. Or a supervisor assigns me to do routine preventative ( Read more... ) -
Temperance Brennan at the Movies
In a darkened movie theater, a scientist leans toward her partner. In between them sits their young daughter, the main beneficiary of this trip. She whispers, "Oh! Now that this clownfish's mate has died, we'll get to see him metamorphose into a female and lead his--well, I should say her--harem of males. They probably didn't want to introduce that ( Read more... ) -
Hair
At the encouragement of a friend, I've been growing my hair out, but I hate the way it looks. I was thinking about it, and my hair is thick, there's tons of it, it's got volume, waves, and natural highlights... everything shampoo commercials promise and I have no clue what to do with it, so I thought, why not let someone else have it? Most places ( Read more... ) -
Random happenings
At a recent event, I about to bite into what I thought was the last Reese's-stuffed Oreo when a friend of mine showed up and sat down next to me. After she asked what I was eating, I just extended it towards her in the spirit of giving.She insisted on knowing what it was first, so I explained to a look of confusion or maybe awe. Finally, she gave ( Read more... ) -
Argh, you people!
I wish more people understood how air conditioners work. So many people want to have their upstairs set to 80 degrees, but complain about the temperature getting out out of control. Well, [b]duh![/b] The air conditioner is not running often enough to control the heat and it's 100 degrees outside! "I've got my bilge pump turned off and my yacht ( Read more... )