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Office LifeHe [Robert Benchley] and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery. |
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Monday, October 5, 1998
One year ago: L.A. Confidential
I found out this morning that the tool I hoped would make my life simple, won't do all the things I was counting on it doing. I'll have to do a fair amount of manual updating for the content I'm trying to work on, darn it! It will still get done, but not as easily as I had hoped.
I did get a chance to do a bit more unpacking in my new office! I still love saying that. It's really a nostalgic feeling; since all the offices are very similar at MS, I'm unpacking stuff I haven't used for a year and a half and settling into a room that looks and feels just like the ones I worked in since 1993. Even the weird folding lamps that I had hung onto and never upacked in the bay work just fine; the light bulbs, even!
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I was pleased today that some of the developers asked me to join them as they walked to lunch. That bowl of candy on my desk must be doing some good! Before we could walk to the cafeteria (a drawback of this new building: no food actually in it), the group had to traverse almost every hall, from one end of the building to the other, to see who else wanted to join us. Finally we went out to my choice of cafeterias. I like Building 26, since they have the roast meat there, and that's something I'm not likely to cook at home. (Yeah, like I'm cooking a lot these days!)
The MS singles PF has been dominated today by an exceedingly pointless debate about the erogenousness of men's nipples. You'd think that after you said that some men like having them stimulated, and some can take it or leave it, and some really dislike it, you'd have said it all, wouldn't you? But not in this forum. There are a few boneheads that like to debate as a sport (but it isn't really debate). Ugh! what a poisonous atmosphere. I keep peeking at the folder, seeing who is posting, then marking them all as read, all through the day. Even my strategy of starting a new thread didn't work. Oh, well...
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