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azurelunatic) wrote2015-01-17 02:46 am
azurelunatic) wrote2015-01-17 02:46 am
Thursday and Friday are too much to explain. Let me sum up:
Items include:
* radius thinks we are all very weird for our tab counts. He cleans out his browser regularly.
* I managed to bleed through the following: a padette, an overnight pad, my underwear, a pair of cotton shorts, and my skirt -- onto my desk chair. Which I promptly attacked with an enzyme thingy and also a couple of those lysol wipes, but there's still a distinctively-shaped rusty-colored stain. This is going to be an interesting help ticket.
* SPEAKING OF HELP TICKETS, a major update to the program went out today. There were some inaccuracies in the description given to me by the guy. Flower crown not entirely warranted.
* Help tickets were flying every which-way yesterday and today. A whole bunch got closed, not all of them for good reason. A bunch got re-opened, presumably because someone realized they'd fucked up. Then there were a bunch of duplicate updates.
* I didn't get a notification when someone closed my emailed-in ticket as invalid, because the content was all in the subject line and the attachment. Check the thing, bozos. Also, wtf. I will pursue that one. Later.
* I said something unkind about helpdesk. Purple says that helpdesk has a normal distribution of great people, normal people, and terrible people. Then he added that the tool makes terrible people of them all.
* Purple's phone takes MiniUSB, not MicroUSB. He called me while I was stomping vaguely victoriously towards my car with the pads, underwear, shorts, too-small skirt, and emergency pants. He called me on his desk phone because his cellphone had chewed through its battery again, possibly due to not turning its screen off while closed.
* If I have to explain verbally while someone is "in the middle of a meeting" exactly why I am taking a little trip off-campus (because of a vigorous menstrual event) if there are dinner plans in the offing, I will fail. If it had just been him in his office, I would have been fine, I think. But there were other people there so it was time-sensitive and I didn't know whether they could hear me.
* Work is switching contractor management companies, which results in all the contractors doing an annoying amount of paperwork. Purple has heard of the new company, but not of the old one.
A brief chronological rundown of some of Friday:
1:37am: white noise generator turned on, sleep shortly to ensue
(sleep)
(brief non-sleep interlude)
(sleep)
10:30am: alarm
10:40am: first snooze cycle
11:30am: dressed, out the door, bearing Package To AU
12 noon: having mailed package and retrieved cane from post office, on the way to work, feeling refreshed, well-slept, and well-caffeinated
12:30-something: breakfast with Purple's table, as there's not enough room at my team's for two together (Purple having relatively few of his crew in)
13-something: uneasiness in the land of the uterus
13:40: full-on uterine rebellion, painfully; two little blue pills popped
14:15: wow, that overnight pad only lasted 3.75 hours!
14:35: swiped by #cupcake for an ice cream run, uterus still being a little ball of hate
15:00: pills effective, flood warning
17:30: should probably change that pad, eh
17:35: OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE
17:50: okay, so either I'm going home right the heck now, or if there's dinner, I could see if I can scare up a change of clothes and a shower... hey, Purple...?
18:00: RIGHT OKAY
18:45: *phone rings* SPEAK -- ok, 19:45 where? Yes Purple, that address will be useful to me in about 40 seconds when I'm not walking across the parking lot, or, maybe you could IM it to me? Since I could use a place to put on the new clothes that is not becoming briefly naked in a parking lot? And work has a shower?
19:00: *shower-related gymnastics*
19:12: *feeling much better, cleaner, and more dry*
19:25: *peeling out of parking lot, Purple still chatting with co-worker by his car*
20:10: *arrives at restaurant before anybody else*
20:15: Hi Antisocialest Butterfly!
21:30: *happy burp*
* This is the second emergency pants purchase I have made in the past 8 years. The first one was when my skirt tore in Phoenix at a mall which was a little too nice for me. Fortunately, I did not have to wear actual pants this time. (Trousers. Though this round did also include emergency pants.)
* This is my third outerpants purchase in the past 8 years. The second one was a bunch of jeans that I don't particularly care for, in advance of the 2011 Alaska trip, in a misguided attempt to save on packing space.
* The Rollercoaster Tycoon is heading off to a startup; next week will be his last at Virtual Hammer. He's more at home in a small environment, so this should be good for him.
* I am most likely allergic to my desktop. Purple asked how that worked. "Well, when I put my arm down like so--" "Oh, you mean your actual desktop. Not your computer."
* phone has joined #adventuresofstnono. This is great.
* Have given the Antisocialest Butterfly my contact information (with phone number) just in case Purple's phone runs out of battery (again). Have also authorized Purple to pass my number along to Mr. Antisocial Butterfly, also ditto. (Mr. Antisocial Butterfly had been invited, but due to logistics partly involving Purple's phone situation, did not attend.)
* butterscotch is kind of great. Chile Colorado: also delicious.
* Explaining Shrimpy is kind of odd.
* Explaining Shawn is more odd.
* I may just bring a spare change of clothes to leave at work, henceforth.
* radius thinks we are all very weird for our tab counts. He cleans out his browser regularly.
* I managed to bleed through the following: a padette, an overnight pad, my underwear, a pair of cotton shorts, and my skirt -- onto my desk chair. Which I promptly attacked with an enzyme thingy and also a couple of those lysol wipes, but there's still a distinctively-shaped rusty-colored stain. This is going to be an interesting help ticket.
* SPEAKING OF HELP TICKETS, a major update to the program went out today. There were some inaccuracies in the description given to me by the guy. Flower crown not entirely warranted.
* Help tickets were flying every which-way yesterday and today. A whole bunch got closed, not all of them for good reason. A bunch got re-opened, presumably because someone realized they'd fucked up. Then there were a bunch of duplicate updates.
* I didn't get a notification when someone closed my emailed-in ticket as invalid, because the content was all in the subject line and the attachment. Check the thing, bozos. Also, wtf. I will pursue that one. Later.
* I said something unkind about helpdesk. Purple says that helpdesk has a normal distribution of great people, normal people, and terrible people. Then he added that the tool makes terrible people of them all.
* Purple's phone takes MiniUSB, not MicroUSB. He called me while I was stomping vaguely victoriously towards my car with the pads, underwear, shorts, too-small skirt, and emergency pants. He called me on his desk phone because his cellphone had chewed through its battery again, possibly due to not turning its screen off while closed.
* If I have to explain verbally while someone is "in the middle of a meeting" exactly why I am taking a little trip off-campus (because of a vigorous menstrual event) if there are dinner plans in the offing, I will fail. If it had just been him in his office, I would have been fine, I think. But there were other people there so it was time-sensitive and I didn't know whether they could hear me.
* Work is switching contractor management companies, which results in all the contractors doing an annoying amount of paperwork. Purple has heard of the new company, but not of the old one.
A brief chronological rundown of some of Friday:
1:37am: white noise generator turned on, sleep shortly to ensue
(sleep)
(brief non-sleep interlude)
(sleep)
10:30am: alarm
10:40am: first snooze cycle
11:30am: dressed, out the door, bearing Package To AU
12 noon: having mailed package and retrieved cane from post office, on the way to work, feeling refreshed, well-slept, and well-caffeinated
12:30-something: breakfast with Purple's table, as there's not enough room at my team's for two together (Purple having relatively few of his crew in)
13-something: uneasiness in the land of the uterus
13:40: full-on uterine rebellion, painfully; two little blue pills popped
14:15: wow, that overnight pad only lasted 3.75 hours!
14:35: swiped by #cupcake for an ice cream run, uterus still being a little ball of hate
15:00: pills effective, flood warning
17:30: should probably change that pad, eh
17:35: OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE
17:50: okay, so either I'm going home right the heck now, or if there's dinner, I could see if I can scare up a change of clothes and a shower... hey, Purple...?
18:00: RIGHT OKAY
18:45: *phone rings* SPEAK -- ok, 19:45 where? Yes Purple, that address will be useful to me in about 40 seconds when I'm not walking across the parking lot, or, maybe you could IM it to me? Since I could use a place to put on the new clothes that is not becoming briefly naked in a parking lot? And work has a shower?
19:00: *shower-related gymnastics*
19:12: *feeling much better, cleaner, and more dry*
19:25: *peeling out of parking lot, Purple still chatting with co-worker by his car*
20:10: *arrives at restaurant before anybody else*
20:15: Hi Antisocialest Butterfly!
21:30: *happy burp*
* This is the second emergency pants purchase I have made in the past 8 years. The first one was when my skirt tore in Phoenix at a mall which was a little too nice for me. Fortunately, I did not have to wear actual pants this time. (Trousers. Though this round did also include emergency pants.)
* This is my third outerpants purchase in the past 8 years. The second one was a bunch of jeans that I don't particularly care for, in advance of the 2011 Alaska trip, in a misguided attempt to save on packing space.
* The Rollercoaster Tycoon is heading off to a startup; next week will be his last at Virtual Hammer. He's more at home in a small environment, so this should be good for him.
* I am most likely allergic to my desktop. Purple asked how that worked. "Well, when I put my arm down like so--" "Oh, you mean your actual desktop. Not your computer."
* phone has joined #adventuresofstnono. This is great.
* Have given the Antisocialest Butterfly my contact information (with phone number) just in case Purple's phone runs out of battery (again). Have also authorized Purple to pass my number along to Mr. Antisocial Butterfly, also ditto. (Mr. Antisocial Butterfly had been invited, but due to logistics partly involving Purple's phone situation, did not attend.)
* butterscotch is kind of great. Chile Colorado: also delicious.
* Explaining Shrimpy is kind of odd.
* Explaining Shawn is more odd.
* I may just bring a spare change of clothes to leave at work, henceforth.
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Ooo, thanks!