User talk:TheEileen/Nov 2007
November 2007
11-03-2007
Updated list and wiki. Several posted projects. Yay. I am managing to do my F2 projects pretty steadily and work on content.
The computer is still acting up. Something is going on, and I simply don't have the time or energy to deal. I know that if I spent the 40 minutes to figure it out, I wouldn't have it crap out on me and need 20 minutes when it does to get it going again (OVER and OVER and OVER) (that is if I can get it going at all--don't let me jinx it but I finally seem to have gotten that part stopped), but I am spending the emotional energy elsewhere so for now, I'll make do. I feel like I just need a another week, another calm week, and I'll be more able to deal. Now ... is not a good time. Here's hoping. This is the problem with the manic phase, I am coming to realize that I actually get more done when I'm in the down phase. In the up, I'm too disconnected and unfocused. Balanced and neither up nor down would be nice but that's not happening for a while, I fear.
11-11-2007
Updated list and wiki. Little to no movement on wiki, but everyone did some on the list so that's moving. Yay.
As I said on the list forum, bad week. Computer completely stopped working, turned out to be power supply and logic board but then still NOT working and so much other stuff, it was terrible. I almost hated coming home to find it all still not working and having to figure out what to do at the end of long hard days at work where, as stated below, all my emotional energy was already spent.
Morale at work is really, really, really beginning to totally suck. Upper management is not only disconnected but seems entirely uninterested IN connecting. They can't communicate for spit and seem only to have meetings with each other where they re-inforce themselves that it isn't their problem. And it's dump, dump, dump, dump massive amounts of work, where in again, no concept of the actual scope of the work because the deadlines are insanely short and when it is pointed out, by say 400 out of the 800 of us (and I'm not exaggerating) there is a deadly silence or the date is moved a week. Then, as someone else pointed out, half to 2/3s don't get it done anyway, so they come back two weeks after the deadline and say "okay, here is another month". That's just teaching us all to not even bother to try to meet the deadline. There is never an acknowledgment beyond a generic "we know you are working hard" statement of those people that DID bust their backs getting it done in time and no "here is the negative repercussion" on the ones that didn't. So why should any of us do it? Especially since the major part of the bad communication is that we get told the deadline but the work is done elsewhere and those people never hear it from their chain of command, they hear it from us? Why, if it is SO important, do they not hear this from their own bosses? Oy vey.
Okay, back to content stuff and BACKING UP MY DATA NOW!!!
11-17-2007
Updated list and wiki yesterday or the day before. No time to update here until today. A fair amount of movement, including three posted projects. Yay. I am working on three three oldest items from our F1 list currently in F2 (that is oldest in terms of project, not necessarily how long in F2) and things from the list in F1 plus one begin which is pretty cool.
I ignore work, since it's the weekend. I've got friends coming over tomorrow so I spent the day tidying and cleaning and dusting and generally getting the house "look at me" ready. I changed the decorations and such. Tomorrow I'll hit the store for some decent nibbles and such and then do a final vacuum and floor mop before they come. Always a good motivator for cleaning - people coming over. Plus, I leave on vacation on Saturday (or is it Sunday, I've got to figure that out).
I am sooooo looking forward to that. I probably shouldn't take any of my library books with me, not the least of which, they are all heavy, but it's tempting. Hmmm, come to think of it, what should I take in the way of books. I'm nearly done with all my romances. I could start over on the ones I like, but the usual point for me was to take boosk I wasn't sure I'd like so that if I didn't, I could leave them behind. Less weight in the end. Hmmm. Wow, hmmm. That practice is now officially over.
I have my crochet but ... no. That's for lectures and things. I can't take the crane for hand work, I'm nearly done. Do I try for the cross-stitch? That's tricky; I'm rethinking that project sort of. I got all the greens to be very matchy and the drawback is that I begin to lose track of which color I'm working with. I think I may decide to be LESS matchy, it's easier on these tricky counted ones. I have another kit project that should, at least, be colored in. That should be fairly easy. And my iPod, I get to take my iPod finally. I plan to load it with a freaking year's worth of Firefly pod casts and enjoy the heck out of myself. Although if I start singing "the Hero of Canton" in unison with the 'cast, people may look at me funny. Hee.
Data is backed up. My therapist reminded me of setting boundaries at work, and dang it I'm gonna do it. I do seem to be having a new person coming on board the very day I'm back from Vacation, but I've decided to go all Scarlett O'Hara about that.
Ciao
11-21-2007
Day before Thanksgiving. Updated list and wiki and several moves including one posted project. I have continued to work consistently on content. I do 30 minutes a day and that basically is 10 pages. I don't understand people who can do whole books in a day. They either have amazing software (which I have only what came free with my computer) or something, I dunno. I have to convert images, crop, color fix, OCR, review OCR to keep line breaks and then well, I guess I do some basic P1 on them. I can't just leave them all crappy. I don't have this problem with the book someone else did for me, that I do leave as crappy. I probably could upload that now, but it's got lots of Hebrew and sigal and ...oh I'll have to look up her name, said they'd pre-check some of the Hebrew for me.
I'm tired and work is crazy still always ever now. I don't even want to think about it. My friends did not come, one got sick, but the house was clean. REAALLY clean and tidy, like "I can show this on TV clean and tidy". Now I have nothing to do around the house. HA!
I'm still prepping for my trip. The temps dropped in Sedona, but it should still be nice.
And now back to Index to 2007