What's mildly irritating you today?

monster · 12-18-2010, 05:44 PM

MIL due tomorrow. Flying from Heathrow. Currently closed. Wouldn't normally be irritating, but the kids' schedules tomorrow are a work of art (tapestry-style) and we do not need or want an uncertain airport time. Currently, It's me to hockey early morning with Thor while beest prepares lunches, then beest to away hockey with Hector, dropping Hebe off at the home rink on the way so she can get a ride to her swim meet with another swimmer who also happens to play hockey...while Thor and I head to the airport to pick grandma up, give her a packed lunch and a cup of tea in a travel mug and take her to the swim meet, hopefully in time for the start.....

I'm thinking this isn't going to happen, but I have no idea what the alternative will look like. I want to watch Hebe Swim her first meet as a 13+

Shawnee123 · 12-19-2010, 09:36 AM

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Originally Posted by monster

MIL due tomorrow. Flying from Heathrow. Currently closed. Wouldn't normally be irritating, but the kids' schedules tomorrow are a work of art (tapestry-style) and we do not need or want an uncertain airport time. Currently, It's me to hockey early morning with Thor while beest prepares lunches, then beest to away hockey with Hector, dropping Hebe off at the home rink on the way so she can get a ride to her swim meet with another swimmer who also happens to play hockey...while Thor and I head to the airport to pick grandma up, give her a packed lunch and a cup of tea in a travel mug and take her to the swim meet, hopefully in time for the start.....

I'm thinking this isn't going to happen, but I have no idea what the alternative will look like. I want to watch Hebe Swim her first meet as a 13+

How did it work out?

Perry Winkle · 12-19-2010, 10:02 AM

I'm going to get fired. I'm having major motivational problems. I'm not doing incompetent work, just very little work at all.

There are no better prospects in this one horse town, and we have a lease that we can't get out of until next October.

Upside: I'm making epic progress on my own personal projects, but they probably won't bear enough fruit to put food on the table for another 6-12 months.

HungLikeJesus · 12-19-2010, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Perry Winkle

I'm going to get fired. I'm having major motivational problems. I'm not doing incompetent work, just very little work at all.

There are no better prospects in this one horse town, and we have a lease that we can't get out of until next October.

Upside: I'm making epic progress on my own personal projects, but they probably won't bear enough fruit to put food on the table for another 6-12 months.

What kind of work are you doing?

xoxoxoBruce · 12-19-2010, 12:58 PM

Aren't you paying attention, he's growing fruit.

Perry Winkle · 12-19-2010, 02:53 PM

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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus

What kind of work are you doing?

Really shitty enterprise software in the Justice/Court System domain. Basically a lot of "systems integration" instead of programming. For the foreseeable future, I'm writing exchanges for brokerages (e.g., make the police department and the court's systems talk to each other).

It's not programming. I end up writing 300 lines of code and 10,000 lines of XSLT, and spend hours futzing with XML configurations.

I'd leave, but I've already switched jobs twice this year (made a huge upgrade in jobs, but they started missing payroll and I moved to the place I'm at now). Won't have a choice, if I get fired.

monster · 12-19-2010, 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123

How did it work out?

We finally heard from her. She's still there, back at the hotel....

So on the plus side I get to see Hebe's whole meet. although apparetly it's hot as Hades and twice as crowded in the bleachers.... time to change out of my hockey-mom triple layers!

12-18-2010, 05:44 PM	#1
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	MIL due tomorrow. Flying from Heathrow. Currently closed. Wouldn't normally be irritating, but the kids' schedules tomorrow are a work of art (tapestry-style) and we do not need or want an uncertain airport time. Currently, It's me to hockey early morning with Thor while beest prepares lunches, then beest to away hockey with Hector, dropping Hebe off at the home rink on the way so she can get a ride to her swim meet with another swimmer who also happens to play hockey...while Thor and I head to the airport to pick grandma up, give her a packed lunch and a cup of tea in a travel mug and take her to the swim meet, hopefully in time for the start..... I'm thinking this isn't going to happen, but I have no idea what the alternative will look like. I want to watch Hebe Swim her first meet as a 13+ __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

12-19-2010, 12:58 PM	#5
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Aren't you paying attention, he's growing fruit. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

12-19-2010, 10:02 AM	#3
Perry Winkle Esnohplad Semaj Ton Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: A little south of sanity Posts: 2,259	I'm going to get fired. I'm having major motivational problems. I'm not doing incompetent work, just very little work at all. There are no better prospects in this one horse town, and we have a lease that we can't get out of until next October. Upside: I'm making epic progress on my own personal projects, but they probably won't bear enough fruit to put food on the table for another 6-12 months.

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