I am. At least, I'm at the office. Not terribly in the mood to work today, which is the sort of thing that happens to me when I'm all alone and not under a deadline.

I don't actually have anything to do.

I've been frightfully busy since I started here, what with the training and then the doing of the things I'm learning to do. For some reason, today I can't think of a single thing that needs to be done. I don't doubt there are things I should be worked on. I just can't think of them at the moment.

I politiblogged yesterday until my brain exploded so that's taken care of. (I was going to a group meeting this Wednesday after work but I'm not doing that unless this storm moves out (Did I mention that it's pouring down snow outside?) (Are you allowed to nest parentheses?) and the one threatened for Wednesday fails to materialize.)

DiamondGirl won't be in until 10:30 or 11:00. Haven't heard from Bernie. Don't know if I should assume he's making the slow commute from Boulder or that he's not coming in today. (DiamondGirl says sometimes he just 'forgets' to mention he won't be here. I'm okay with him not being here, but I'd like to know.)

Either way, I'm planning to slide out early. But not until 2 or 3, so I have some time to fill yet.

I've checked my work notes back for a week and I can't find anything I'm forgetting. I checked my running "to do" list and beyond a couple of phone calls of no particular importance and that I don’t feel like making, there's nothing on it.

I have a user manual I've been dabbling with a rewrite on. I could work on that. Yawn. I hate rewriting someone else's work. I'd rather work from scratch. It's a pain to redo graphics and try to move huge chunks of text around inside a badly organized document. I spent two hours tagging and generating a table of contents for the stupid thing last week, so I could at least figure out what was in it.

I'm annoyed at having to work in Photoshop when I normally work in PaintshopPro. (And in an older release, so that I'm not constantly being confused by being offered a lot of graphics options I don't understand.) Also, I'm annoyed because Photoshop takes an hour to open.

I haven't yet cracked either of the two SQL books I picked up on Saturday. (Even though it came with a recommendation, I can't really believe that Teach Yourself SQL In 10 Minutes is really going to be comprehensible.)

I sure do wish I could think of something interesting to write about.

My new office is cooler than the one I sat in before. I need to remember this when I'm getting dressed in the morning. Maybe bring in a sweater to keep on my chair, just in case.

Ooo! Ooo! I just remembered something! I can go try to generate a report!

The thrills never stop.