Cough med cubicle comedy

I'm that person everyone in the office hates today. Yup, I'm sick and I came to work. I called out yesterday, but today I'm here and packed with germs. Well, not really as this is day 4 of the cold virus thing. Thank goodness for free ginger ale in the game room! Even that won't silence the beast coming out of my cube.. that hacking cough that sounds like a donkey baying (the cold meds I'm on are clearly making things foggy...or more interesting) is echoing through this mini cube farm. Oy, the cough meds that I had to show my license for... as if this coughing, sniffly, clearly exhausted body had the strength to turn CVS brand Advil Cold and Sinus into meth. And of course the scanner wouldn't work so all 3 people behind me at CVS think I've already bought a warehouse full and am now being caught. All I wanted was to get back in bed! Alas.

Yes, so I think the cold meds are definitely messing with my thinking! Well, time to go re-review some stuff from Friday! This will be interesting.

Oh my MS Word!

Phantom table syndrome has struck again. The table appears on one page and then runs below the footer and disappears, never to be seen again! I'm not sure what's worse, this disappearing act or Word freezing and crashing causing minute and temporary drama with the server.

UPDATE: Word is a fool. Don't change your trusted .doc format to .docx because tables will hate you. And how dare you try to change it back?! yipes.

The pike could have hosted a ballroom dance, as it was so freakin empty today (yay!).

Why do rainy days slow everything down? I don't know but I don't mind...well except when there are network, server, and hardware problems (ironic to work for a software and hardware engineering company).

Well th-th-th-that's all folks!

Trucks are tricky, or are tricks trucky?

Today's commute was enhanced by the brigade of 18-wheelers and work vans. Coming up over a hill was like looking out across a river packed with (trucks) logs. They always seem to creep a good foot into your lane, too. And then you hit the rumble strip and look like a drunkard! These trucks must have gotten an early start because there weren't nearly as many sleeping trucks on the side of the highways or at the pike rest stops. Revenge of the trucks!

You know you're a yuppie when...

• You have to make the daily choice of making breakfast or making lunch and then fending for vittles at work. Today was lunch...breakfast was a protein bar at the Natick rest stop on the pike.
• You begin to understand the value of meal-replacement bars.
• You begin to despise the price of meal-replacement bars.
• You get excited by the thought of writing in your Yuppie blog.
• You fondly remember Thirsty Thursdays as you wake up at the crack of dawn and go to bed at sunset.
• Your new version of Thirsty Thursdays is having a nightcap...at 8PM.
• Anyone who is still in college is a "kid."
• You realize that you don't really know anything, at least not nearly as much as you thought you knew in college.
• You used to be addicted to your computer. Now you don't even want to turn it on when you get home from a day of staring at a computer for 8 hours.

You know you're a PWTC yuppie when...

• You appreciate the work that editors do. Raw documents are ATROCIOUS.
• You get happy and sad depending on a doc's usability.
• You learn to give up perfectionism when the UI is crap and have to just go with the bad flow of the software.
• You know what a UI is and find it hard to believe you didn't know what it was a few months ago.
• You daily find yourself doing something that you learned in PWTC.
• You can't wait to go back to UMass to see the Toominator, Solberglar, and Pulverizer and give talks about your job to new PWTC kids.

A day in the life

It wouldn't be a day in the life without having to rush back to doing something... kind of. But here's the first post!

Tess and I are going to have some fun with this blog so buckle up on the pike or hold on tight to the subway car...it's going to be a heavy commute!