Alvin called in this morning and said he'd be working at home, so it's very peaceful in my little corner of the office. I'm actually working for a change, too.

I'm not being as productive as I could be since IDoJeannie sent out an e-mail at 10:00 announcing that she was leaving for the day at 10:45. I had some stuff to be packed and shipped, normally her job, that I consequently had to drop everything else to handle myself. It's not that I'm not up to the challenge of sticking things in a box, you understand, it's the frustration of knowing that my company pays the parent company a fixed sum every month for IDoJeannie's assistance answering phones, shipping packages, etc., and she's not doing any of that.

Darrell very nearly spoke to me this morning. He was walking an interviewee for his company around, showing her the office, and he said, "And this is...." proving that he does know my name. He didn't seem to feel it incumbent upon him to share any further details, like my job or the (separate) company I work for, but at least he was forced to acknowledge my existence, right? That felt good after I'd spoken to him a couple of hours before and received no answer.

Conversational gambits from The Other Brother Darrell have become too common to mention. He's actually quite chatty any more, speaking to me freely three or even four times a week.

In the whoa! department, a guy on the elevator a couple of days ago asked me if I lived in ______ Apartments, which I do, and said he'd seen me there when he went to visit friends. Regardless of the fact that I've seen this no-doubt perfectly harmless young man around the building before, I'd rather not have strangers knowing where I live, okay?

Of course, my attitude could be colored by the fact that I've been reading a fascinating conspiracy-theorist book recently (They really do control the world!), but I don't think so. There are too many nutcases in the world today.

Sorry about the broken links to the graphics at the top of this page, by the way. After moving ISPs, and computers, I've realized that I only seem to have one of the two graphics needed for the banner and I can't, embarrassingly enough, figure out why even the one I've tried to upload doesn't appear.

I'll find some time to work on it one of these days soon, I promise.

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I guess I really didn't have that much to say, did I?