I'm reading through the LJ entries of two decades ago.
Wow, there was a lot of fannish stuff going on back in the day. Also, a lot of personal angst. Interestingy, I spotted a few familiar names from all those years ago -![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
adafrog, I can't believe we've known each other for about 20 years!
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Got through the 2nd week of work. *breathes* Now just another *counts on fingers and gives up* one, two, many, lots of weeks to go!
One problem: I didn't get paid for last week and the week before. Unfortunately, whoever was supposed to be approving the timesheets didn't get to it before close-of-payroll. So I'll be waiting another fortnight before being paid.
I wonder what the other contractors (contractors need manager approval of their hours in order to get their payroll done) did. I probably should have asked.
Yes, I have savings and I'm not in a dire position. But it's particularly annoying because I haven't been paid since the start of September.
One of the big things (the thing which I was brought on to help deal with) was delayed. Indefinitely so. Upper management is sorting through all the details of it, the lawyers are having a field day. And down in the trenches, we're wondering a little what's going on.
But hey, I'm still employed. (For the moment.)
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Parentals are going away on a tour of Italy and Greece this Sunday. They'll be gone for 6 weeks.
I had lunch with mum today in the city, and we'll go over and have dinner with them tomomrrow. Then I drive them in to the airport on Sunday morning.
Hm. I wonder if I could go over to visit a friend who recently (in the last 6 months) moved into a new place out that way... I might text her and see if she's up to a visit. Although 8am in the morning is probably waaaay too early for her.
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I had a night in on Tuesday and Wednesday - I was going to go out to dinner with some of the hockey women, but nobody could make it, so we cancelled for some other time. And next week is when summer competition starts. Which is not going to be conducive to going out to dinner.
Thursday was trivia night with the usual crowd. It feels like I've seen a lot of them lately, although this may also be because we're solving Cryptic puzzles during the day (c/o a whatsapp group) and so I feel like I'm talking to most of them every day...
A couple of weeks back, some of the guys invited another guy from their bible study to come along. Our trivia team is weak in the sports department, and this guy apparently knows sport. He (and his wife and kids and a friend of kid) turned up on Thursday. Another couple have been on the Whatsapp group about trivia for the last six months, but have never turned up... You guess it right - they also turned up on Thursday.
So we had about 22 people in total on the team, and although we checked it was okay (it was), we decided to split, just for fairness.
A couple of the 'regulars' went over to the 'new' team: they ended up with about 15 people, we ended up with 8...
We came 9th out of 12 - we did very badly - and they came...2nd. D'oh!
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There's a gaming miniatures place across the road from where I come out at the station. I have a bunch of miniatures which I bought a decade ago and then didn't have the time, energy, or space to paint. But there's this shop, and they have painting stations, and the guy I spoke to looked...well, normal in a "could pass in the city without being mentally considered a neckbeard" way, which is not always the case in gaming stores. Or didn't use to be, anyway...
I chatted with the guy, asked about whether there are painting sessions, what the options are, how to go about it. He suggested I drop in one day after work, paint one of the freebie minis (already assembled and undercoated) to get a feel for it, and then I get to take the mini home. It's a thought. I might turn up one Thursday night when I'm not triviating.
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Today is some gardening, some sewing, possibly some shopping. I'm wondering if I could find a sports bra that doesn't crossover - one that allows my dragon to peek over the top of the bra strap.
I also want to sort out some root bleaching. My hair is black, and I'd like to bleach the roots to blonde, then dye it electric blue. And then let the 'colour band' in my hair grow out in an odd-yet-distinctive manner.
I'd better get out in the garden - it's starting to look like rain...
Wow, there was a lot of fannish stuff going on back in the day. Also, a lot of personal angst. Interestingy, I spotted a few familiar names from all those years ago -
adafrog, I can't believe we've known each other for about 20 years! --
Got through the 2nd week of work. *breathes* Now just another *counts on fingers and gives up* one, two, many, lots of weeks to go!
One problem: I didn't get paid for last week and the week before. Unfortunately, whoever was supposed to be approving the timesheets didn't get to it before close-of-payroll. So I'll be waiting another fortnight before being paid.
I wonder what the other contractors (contractors need manager approval of their hours in order to get their payroll done) did. I probably should have asked.
Yes, I have savings and I'm not in a dire position. But it's particularly annoying because I haven't been paid since the start of September.
One of the big things (the thing which I was brought on to help deal with) was delayed. Indefinitely so. Upper management is sorting through all the details of it, the lawyers are having a field day. And down in the trenches, we're wondering a little what's going on.
But hey, I'm still employed. (For the moment.)
--
Parentals are going away on a tour of Italy and Greece this Sunday. They'll be gone for 6 weeks.
I had lunch with mum today in the city, and we'll go over and have dinner with them tomomrrow. Then I drive them in to the airport on Sunday morning.
Hm. I wonder if I could go over to visit a friend who recently (in the last 6 months) moved into a new place out that way... I might text her and see if she's up to a visit. Although 8am in the morning is probably waaaay too early for her.
--
I had a night in on Tuesday and Wednesday - I was going to go out to dinner with some of the hockey women, but nobody could make it, so we cancelled for some other time. And next week is when summer competition starts. Which is not going to be conducive to going out to dinner.
Thursday was trivia night with the usual crowd. It feels like I've seen a lot of them lately, although this may also be because we're solving Cryptic puzzles during the day (c/o a whatsapp group) and so I feel like I'm talking to most of them every day...
A couple of weeks back, some of the guys invited another guy from their bible study to come along. Our trivia team is weak in the sports department, and this guy apparently knows sport. He (and his wife and kids and a friend of kid) turned up on Thursday. Another couple have been on the Whatsapp group about trivia for the last six months, but have never turned up... You guess it right - they also turned up on Thursday.
So we had about 22 people in total on the team, and although we checked it was okay (it was), we decided to split, just for fairness.
A couple of the 'regulars' went over to the 'new' team: they ended up with about 15 people, we ended up with 8...
We came 9th out of 12 - we did very badly - and they came...2nd. D'oh!
--
There's a gaming miniatures place across the road from where I come out at the station. I have a bunch of miniatures which I bought a decade ago and then didn't have the time, energy, or space to paint. But there's this shop, and they have painting stations, and the guy I spoke to looked...well, normal in a "could pass in the city without being mentally considered a neckbeard" way, which is not always the case in gaming stores. Or didn't use to be, anyway...
I chatted with the guy, asked about whether there are painting sessions, what the options are, how to go about it. He suggested I drop in one day after work, paint one of the freebie minis (already assembled and undercoated) to get a feel for it, and then I get to take the mini home. It's a thought. I might turn up one Thursday night when I'm not triviating.
--
Today is some gardening, some sewing, possibly some shopping. I'm wondering if I could find a sports bra that doesn't crossover - one that allows my dragon to peek over the top of the bra strap.
I also want to sort out some root bleaching. My hair is black, and I'd like to bleach the roots to blonde, then dye it electric blue. And then let the 'colour band' in my hair grow out in an odd-yet-distinctive manner.
I'd better get out in the garden - it's starting to look like rain...