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[susandennis]

Every once in a while I have a day that just seems off by 10 or 12 pixels. Today is one of those.

Mom's ok. Nothing really new there. She's still half loopy ("am I 82 or 88?") but she also told me she's getting better every day.

I'm still pissed about dragging out the condo redesign project. unzeugmatic did a great job of putting it into a bit of perspective for me. But, in general, I think I'm about as annoyed at myself as I am at Sheri. Initially, I had a hard time convincing her that while I was not going to pinch pennies, every decision needed to have a 'how much' equation built in before the decision could be finalized. I should have realized way back then, that I also needed to spell out for her that 'when' was about as critical. This project is going to end up - best case - taking nearly 9 months which is really ridiculous.

She did return the revised list o' everything that I asked her for last night but more than half the things on that list still did not have dates! When I ask for a list of everything that has yet to be completed with dates, I want a list of everything still needs to be done. You can delete the things that have been completed. And I want dates. Please. Tell me when I can expect the next steps for each item. She got the list back again this morning with DATES? next to every item that didn't have one and a request to do it again. Sigh.

I would so make a crappy project manager. Unless my toolkit included a bat or a taser.

I guess as a result of last week's merry go round with my yarn supplier, today I get an email good for one round of free shipping. At least they know how to get more money out of me. Now I just wish my eyes and nose supplier would call me to tell me that my shipment is in. I'm so afraid that they are going to call me and tell me that they can't get any more.

Oh and the keyboards in the dishwasher experiment is a failure. I brought one in and tried it yesterday on this computer here at work. The computer recognized it, but not exactly. It let me type in my password but there were errors since whatever it typed in, the system didn't like. Then Stephen came along and noted that since a short in the keyboard could fuck up the computer's mother board and since we needed my computer to do critical business... he instructed me to file the clean keyboard in the trash. So I did.

Later...

Comments

[proemial.livejournal.com]

It takes 3-4 days of drying, post dishwashing a keyboard.

[proemial.livejournal.com]

Oh, and wash with cold water. Never use soap.

yanno, keyboards are cheap.

[henare.livejournal.com]

really. $20 or less. why going through all this hassle to clean a keyboard is beyond me.

Re: yanno, keyboards are cheap.

[susandennis]

You are right... well, right about the why bother to clean... but I am picky about my keyboards. Have to be black and have to the wavy/ergo kind. Not so easy to find and not $20 but still better to shell out for new. I'm over the keyboard/dishwasher thing.

[jimcarson.livejournal.com]

You would make an excellent project manager because your engineers would fear poor execution. "Susan's brought the scheduling bat to the meeting. I wonder who's going to be the schedule chicken (http://www.jimcarson.com/a/2004/06/schedule_chicke_1.shtml)." or "Shit, she's playing with the safety on her taser again. I better fix that bug before QA rats me out."

[susandennis]

Oh, I totally forgot about that entry of yours... it still cracks me up. And today I needed the laugh.

I worked for a software lab manager once at IBM who got one too many bad answers to his 'when' questions and had me make up posters that were a red circle with a slash over the letters RSN. We handed them out at an employee meeting where he explained that 'Real Soon Now' was not an appropriate target date.