Monday Monday
Jan. 31st, 2011 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisThe hospital delivery guy came early to pick up the TV which was nice and now it's gone. I told him of the suspected problem and he didn't think it was an issue. "We have a great TV guy." He was very grateful and gracious. A nice way to start off the morning.
Work started out roughly this morning. They have this (relatively) new thing... in the olden days (last year) when they wanted you to install an update, they'd just put this little naggy thing on your screen that bugged the crap out of you. If you ignored it for long, then the VPN would no longer work at all. Now, they don't warn you at all. Your first notice is a "limited access" flag after you log into corpnet. It's never a good way to start the week but I did the update and rebooted and all seems to be ok now. I am all caught up now and am just waiting on the next work item to come in. Or my 11:30 conf call - whichever comes first.
I'm still waiting on one 1099 tax forms. They have to be postmarked by today so they should be here soon and then I can send off my tax shit and get that off my back.
The annual boat show is over. It's held at the exhibition center which is attached to the football/soccer stadium that is out my front window. Before and after the show the parking lot that my terrace overlooks is filled with boats. It's always amusing.
There is talk, once again, of using half of the parking lot for a mixed use - residential and retail - building. They have been talking about it for all of the 19 years I have lived here. They got really serious about it just before this last economic downturn and it got put on the back burner then but now, it appears to be moving front and center again.
Everyone assumes it would be horrible for me - it would ruin my view. ha! Au contraire. For one thing, watching the construction would be fascinating. I loved watching the stadium being built and watching the every day building of another large building would be way fun. But, also, I'd love it if my terrace looked right into the windows of other apartments. What fun it would be to watch other people! I'm such a voyeur. When my parents had apartments in New York City, watching neighbors was better than television. I'd love to have that here.
So I'm all for it. Plus, more residents means more residential retail like maybe a drug store! Or a dry cleaner. A girl can dream.
But today we've got boats...
With my work being twisted into such a mess by The Irritating One, I've been thinking once again about retiring. One of the big show stoppers for me is what will I do? I'm so bad with people that volunteering is really not that viable an option, and I sure don't want to go back to school. But I've always looked down my nose at people who are bored - they just lack imagination. So I can't handle the idea of being bored. But what will I do? I need a project, a plan...
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ljtourist has a great job that he loves and a couple of other careers he would like to try if he didn't have this one. It's so cool to watch is face when he talks about them. I'm actually quite jealous. He also mentioned that if he was retired and looking for something to do, he'd ride all the Metro bus routes in oder 'like that guy did'.
I remember reading about that guy and looked it up when I got home. Pierre Sundborg toured (or maybe still is - I could not find any recent info) the city on buses. It does sound like fun. And like the kind of project I would love to have going for retirement. I just need to keep thinking...
Work started out roughly this morning. They have this (relatively) new thing... in the olden days (last year) when they wanted you to install an update, they'd just put this little naggy thing on your screen that bugged the crap out of you. If you ignored it for long, then the VPN would no longer work at all. Now, they don't warn you at all. Your first notice is a "limited access" flag after you log into corpnet. It's never a good way to start the week but I did the update and rebooted and all seems to be ok now. I am all caught up now and am just waiting on the next work item to come in. Or my 11:30 conf call - whichever comes first.
I'm still waiting on one 1099 tax forms. They have to be postmarked by today so they should be here soon and then I can send off my tax shit and get that off my back.
The annual boat show is over. It's held at the exhibition center which is attached to the football/soccer stadium that is out my front window. Before and after the show the parking lot that my terrace overlooks is filled with boats. It's always amusing.
There is talk, once again, of using half of the parking lot for a mixed use - residential and retail - building. They have been talking about it for all of the 19 years I have lived here. They got really serious about it just before this last economic downturn and it got put on the back burner then but now, it appears to be moving front and center again.
Everyone assumes it would be horrible for me - it would ruin my view. ha! Au contraire. For one thing, watching the construction would be fascinating. I loved watching the stadium being built and watching the every day building of another large building would be way fun. But, also, I'd love it if my terrace looked right into the windows of other apartments. What fun it would be to watch other people! I'm such a voyeur. When my parents had apartments in New York City, watching neighbors was better than television. I'd love to have that here.
So I'm all for it. Plus, more residents means more residential retail like maybe a drug store! Or a dry cleaner. A girl can dream.
But today we've got boats...
With my work being twisted into such a mess by The Irritating One, I've been thinking once again about retiring. One of the big show stoppers for me is what will I do? I'm so bad with people that volunteering is really not that viable an option, and I sure don't want to go back to school. But I've always looked down my nose at people who are bored - they just lack imagination. So I can't handle the idea of being bored. But what will I do? I need a project, a plan...
ljtourist has a great job that he loves and a couple of other careers he would like to try if he didn't have this one. It's so cool to watch is face when he talks about them. I'm actually quite jealous. He also mentioned that if he was retired and looking for something to do, he'd ride all the Metro bus routes in oder 'like that guy did'. I remember reading about that guy and looked it up when I got home. Pierre Sundborg toured (or maybe still is - I could not find any recent info) the city on buses. It does sound like fun. And like the kind of project I would love to have going for retirement. I just need to keep thinking...