How geeky am I?

I have Horizons running on my desktop next to me. As I mine gems and ore (a process which consists of clicking the resource, clicking ‘gather’ and waiting), I surf on the laptop, which I have set up on a tray table. Caelia managed to drag her sorry elven butt to level 12 druid and level 13 jeweler. Most of my guild mates are above level 20, so I’m playing catchup as usual. I just don’t have the wherewithal to play for hours on end every day anymore.

The Wings suffered a devastating loss last night to the Rochester Knighthawks. Mom, John & I attended the game with about 14,000 others. I love that sport. Unfortunately, they started with an Eagles Pep Rally, which I swear is the most inane thing to do. Why, why, WHY kill the home-opener crowd’s excitement about the Wings by trying to redirect that energy toward the Eagles?

And as usual the Eagles blew their SuperBowl chances by losing the NFC division game to Carolina. It’s a lonely world out there when you’re not a football fan. I look at all of the Eagles paraphenalia and all of the people and their excitement (and tomorrow, communal grief) and I feel badly that I can’t participate. I don’t know how it is in the rest of the country, but here in the Philly area, if you don’t care about the Eagles, you’re a pariah. I’d walk down the halls at work, and my coworkers would look at me, give a thumbs up, and say, “go Eagles!” Yeah. OK. What I hate the most are the ones who don’t follow the team all year long, and then whip out a green shirt the week before the playoffs. I’m glad they lost. The hype is too much.

In other not-as-pathetic news, I emerged from mourning my deceased Palm m515 by purchasing a Tungsten E. What’s funny is that the “E” cost less and does more than the m515 did two years ago. It doesn’t have a HotSync cradle — it has an AC adapter for charging and a USB cable for syncing. I decided I’ll sync it to both my laptop and my PC at work.

Now before you sneer at me for being a tech-freak…you have to know how much I use my PDAs. I have my whole life calendar stored in them, plus phone numbers and addresses for everyone I know. The last month at work has been insane…with tasks and ‘to do’ notes stuck all over the place. I fully believe “E” will help me relax a bit. Sadly, it isn’t compatable with the 515’s keyboard.

I went through the pile of resumes for the new Content Producer job. 3/4 of them were asking for WAY too much money. More than what I’m making. Uh-uh. Not gonna happen, people. So the hunt continues.

Young Max has crawled up on my lap and is trying to go to sleep. That’s my cue to log out, and head to bed.

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My parking spot

Yep. There’s my parking spot. I feel guilty for having it. That’s just like me, though.

Wt: 145.8.

On the way home from work today I flipped on the Oldies station and heard the title song from the movie “Grease.” Once I stopped sobbing, I realized that the song is absolutely lame if you listen to the lyrics. “Grease is the way we are feeling?” Wha??

Today I had my “Rising Star” headshot taken and spent most of the day trying to worm my way through some scripts for a new online Classified ad-placing system. It will allow people to completely order classified ads online, even picking whether or not they want the ad bordered or bolded or w/a graphic. They’ll be able to pay w/a credit card. We have a form on the site for that now, but that just sends an email to the Classified Department and they in turn call the person back to verify. Plus a 10am meeting with a rep from GemStar. I also finished the job description for my new hire. I think the ad will start running in tomorrow’s paper! Wanna work for me? Soon you’ll have your chance.

(waves hi to those who will be visiting this site because you’re applying for the job and Googled my name)

Tomorrow I go back to the ad reps to follow up on the ‘coupon’ presentation Peter and I did last week. I’ll be glad when the weekend hits. I’m still not used to working until 5 yet.

I installed Movable Type on my site tonight. That’s a blog management tool. Right now I use Blogger, which served me well, but I think I’m ready for more. This means that, yes, I am very serious about redesigning my site. I think the blog will be on the home page instead of its own page. But I have a while to go before I’m near completion.

The snow today was boring at best. It barely covered the grass, yet people either drove like they were driving Humvees across mountain ranges, or like they were covered in scorpions and one sudden move means death.

I left the usual time and ended up at work 5 minutes earlier than usual. Despite the snow. Now I think tomorrow I’ll leave 10 minutes earlier and stop at Starbuck’s on the way in. Friday morning treat! And maybe I’ll buy a box of Thin Mints from Janet. (She’s Clark’s wife. Remember Clark? He painted his self-portrait in blood. Janet’s refreshingly normal.)

And to leave you with JUST how much of a geek/nerd I am, I ordered a small pair of Obsidian earrings from the web tonight. Why? Because I’ve been a member of the Obsidian Knights guild for over 2 years.

Great…now nobody will want to work for me….

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January 15, 2004

Shawn at the CP has tomorrow’s special section under control, so I got to come home after yoga and play a bit of Horizons.

My parking lot “Reserved” sign was installed today. It’s just creepy to see my name in big black letters keeping watch over a spot that’s just for me. Dunno what I’ve done to deserve a spot, mind you (I’m not a director — merely a manager), but I’ll take it! And tomorrow I get my head shot taken for the Rising Star booklet. I’m truly waiting for the bottom to fall out of this job.

The first Wings game of the season is Saturday night at 8pm. I got 4 tickets for our usual seats. All I have to do now is dig my Wings jersey out of storage.

And as I type, a blanket of snow is falling across South Jersey. I love how the snow causes the world to be bright and glow — even at night. I’m going to sleep w/the blinds up so that the bedroom will glow as well.

Goodnight!

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It’s official!

Starting Monday I’m working a ‘normal’ 8:30am - 5:00pm schedule. Damon (the one I work with, not to be confused with the hundreds of thousands of other Damons out there) will take the early shift until we get things worked out w/the newsroom. While I’m not looking forward to the traffic and coming home in the dark, I am looking forward to coming to work in the daylight and being able to stay up later. Among other things, this means that:

1) The morning blog will either happen before I head to work, or become a before-bed blog
2) The rousing afternoon walk with Max will become a rousing evening walk with Max
3) My visits to the gym will occur in the mornings before work. A change this way will be good. I fear I’ve put on about 10 lbs over the last few months. (shudder)

This morning as I leaned forward to grab something off of my bureau, I popped my head on the corner of a shelf I have on my wall. For a while, there was actually a small dent in my head. I’m hoping it doesn’t bruise up.

Snipped out another Ann Taylor tracking device, this from my new orangey blouse. I’m guessing my skirt has one too that I neglected to find. The new device is on my bathroom counter commiserating with the one I found on Monday. Maybe I’ll save them until summer and throw them into the ocean. That’ll send back a neat report…

Generously-assed woman drowns in Atlantic Ocean. Worse, she’s wearing a mismatched shirt and blouse!

And can you believe that out of the 2 dozen donuts I brought into yesterday’s meeting, only ONE was eaten? I ended up giving the donuts away to Marketing and Editorial.

Levelled Caelia up to 10 in the druid school. Means nothing to you, I know. But I’m proud.

Here’s the lastest snapshot of my redesign. I’m happy to announce it looks the same in Explorer 6, Netscape 7, and Opera 7. My goal is to get the HTML and CSS validated so I can be a snob and put the little “validated” buttons on my site.

Mood: Pleasant
Work: Do the Wednesday Hit Reports. Operating Committee meeting (this is the important weekly meeting of the Publisher, all the Directors, and little manager me at 11:00 am. I hope I’m not sporting a big bruise on my forehead. Contest crap I didn’t get to yesterday.
Lunch: brought lunch but it depends how long the OC meeting goes. If I’m crazed, I may run out of the building and head to the mall.
Afternoon plans: Rousing walk with Max.
Evening: Back to yoga at 7:30.

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