I won’t be getting much playing time before we leave for vacation in Canada on Saturday. We are going to the wife’s house for dinner tonight to see her sister who has to stay here because her college courses have some exams next week, and Friday night, I’m going to bed right around the time I finish eating.
We leave at 5am Saturday morning and will stop in Richmond, VA for the night before continuing through to Ottawa. I hope the snow comes down less than expected or that the snowplows have time to clear the way before we get there. Forecasters are calling for 20″ of snow for parts of New York, and we have to pass right on through to Syracuse to cross the border.
The trip is to bring back some family heirlooms and stuff from her grandma’s house before she moves in March all the way to the other coast in Vancouver. Hopefully it’s not much of a working vacation, but my wife has assured me that it will likely be no different from our lazy days when we go to my grandparents. The biggest problem: Dial-up Internet. Oh NOES!!!
I’m bringing my laptop, which I need to get the expansion on and get all of the patches installed just to be able to log in and check mail/auctions. I honestly have no idea if I will even be able to log in. I should have plenty of time to blog while I’m doing my aerosols, but what is there to blog about when you’re not playing when you have a WoW blog? Grrrr.
/begin rant
On to work now, which is a complete mess. We have a person in a position called a “co-ordinator.” One would assume that they track things and make sure people know what is coming down the pipesย and monitors the work of the temps when we need extra help. Right?
Turns out that nothing, and I mean NOTHING has been done right since October. They get called into the boss’ office a minimum of 3 times per day with issues regarding their work, and there is no change, or remorse, and basically no reaction at all.
This has all reached a head now that we are auditing everything and finding out that there is an impossible amount of work to do to complete the work that wasn’t done. Stuff needs to ship out on the 26th, which is the day I get back from vacation. The rest of the department has to fix all of that work, complete the work that wasn’t done, AND do all of our normal functions without me, and (hopefully) without that person. I’m on Xanex to keep my back from seizing up and had to take a muscle relaxant when I got home last night because of the tightness. I hold all of my stress in my back and shoulders, until something gives, so thank God for prescription narcotics. ๐
/end rant
Anyway, that’s the rest of my week and a head’s up about next week.
Man I need some back meds, i just pulled my muscle (about 10min ago xD) and it hurts ='(..hope you have fun on the vacation, sucks your work is a maelstrom =/
Have fun your vacation and have a safe trip to Canada. I used to live in Rochester NY for few years while I was going to school there. NY is pretty good about clearing roads after a snowfall. Shouldn’t and hopefully won’t have any problems.
As of work, I know what you mean I have some co-workers that don’t do shiz around here and get behind w/ projects. So, I’m pretty much favored in this dept of completing and catching up on other projects.
Ottawa is a beautiful city – I hope you get a chance to relax and forget about work. Drive safely.
It gives a few of us a chance to catch up to Bloodr, if not overpass ๐
Hope your vacation is a good relaxing one. Any vacation where you don’t have to go in to your regular job has to be fairly good right? Hopefully in a less stressful environment you’ll be able to feel better. Safe trip.
I have always found that mindless destruction of small people and buildings a cathartic expereince. Try blowing flame out of your maouth an making an high pitched sound that frightens the little people. …..oh wait thats what Godzilla would do…..Maybe a nice calm RTS marathon. Killing and desimating your enimies in a strategic and tactical defeat will liven up even the most dark emotions and is a good outlet for frustrations. Hell a nice bottle of Port would lossen up those muscles some. If all this fails try picturing the sight of millions of tourests stuck in trees on the ski slopes and know that in five minutes you will be joining them in the trees waiting for the ski patrol to wheel that gigantic dog with the brandy over an pour you a stiff drink. Remember to wedge. Stay away from yellow snow and dont pick up and strange chipmunks.