February 19, 2002

[General] My company celebrates few federal

My company celebrates few federal holidays, or at least it seems that way. We actually get 10 days, but they are all bunchy--we get Thursday and Friday of Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day and New Years Eve and New Years Day. That's 6 of the 10 days, right there! Imagine my surprise, then, to find that we actually had President's Day off. (The other three days that we get, for those who are curious, are Memorial Day, July 4th and Labor Day).

Because of the crazy work schedule that we have been dealing with the last few weeks, I decided to take full advantage of the holiday and make a 4-day weekend out of it. Because my Friday was pretty busy, I decided to take Tuesday off instead. With 4 days in front of me and nothing that needed to be done, I had high ambitions for what I would get accomplished. While I didn't get the checkbook balanced or the Christmas decorations carried to the basement or the chair that I moved to make room for the Christmas Tree moved back, I did get many, many things done.

The tragedy that was my trip to the salon on Saturday is well-documented so I won't go into that again, except to say that, half a tube of Neosporin later, my finger is healing. :) Saturday night John and I went out to dinner, something that we rarely get to do these days with our crazy schedules. I told him that, as much as I wish he were happier at his job, I am really glad that we have been working on this same project for the last 6 months. I think that it has made us much more understanding of what the other is going through at work. I have heard so many folks on our team complaining that their marriages have suffered as a result of this implementation. For us, while it still hasn't been anything resembling fun, at least we have been able to support each other and feel each others' pain.

After dinner, we went book-shopping (and office supply shopping--I never miss working for CorpEx more than in the checkout line at Staples). I love book-shopping. Being at Borders or Barnes and Noble comforts me. I mentioned yesterday that I bought some HTML books--O'Reilly's "Web Design in a Nutshell" and "HTML Pocket Reference蚤nd I also bought a new novel that I am excited about, although its name is escaping me. I haven't started reading it, as I have been buried in the HTML stuff. I may give it a go later this evening.

Anyway, we got home Saturday night in time for the Pairs Figure Skating Medal Ceremony Redux. I was happy for the Canadians and happy that some semblance of the right thing was being done for once. It wasn't the same as if it had been done right at the beginning, but better than it never having been done right at all.

Sunday is a blur. A black hole. A vortex of lost time. I honestly have no memory of the day, at all. Ah, I did watch the new Queer as Folk at 10. Other than that, I couldn't tell you what I did, although I suspect that there was napping involved.

Monday was a pretty cool day--extraordinarily cool, actually. I have been craving kabob from this Persian restaurant in Virginia that I love and missing my friend Lisa and needing to buy a salt celler at this kitchen supply store--Sur la Table...and, well, all of these things seemed to magically converge on Monday. Lisa also had the day off so we arranged to meet for shopping and a Kabob lunch. As we entered the mall, I unexpectantly encountered...a Sur la Table store! It was kismet, kismet, I tell you. My kosher salt now has a home!

And today, I got much more done on the website. There's still not a lot of content but we're done with graphics and backgrounds. The overall style is set and the links out to external content work. Come by for a visit! Thanks to Dan H. for the work on the graphic!

Posted by Lori at February 19, 2002 3:17 PM