I decided to fix the coding instead of starting over. In the end, it only took about three hours to do the whole thing.

As I understand it, my predecessor used to take three or four days to do this. At the moment, yes, I'm feeling smug about my superior work ethic. (She could have worked faster if she wasn't IMing and e-mailing with six people at a time, all day, every day, plus making half a dozen personal phone calls. But…she was 22. And I? Am so not.)

Also, I'm feeling a bit smug because I know that Bernie, sexist pig that he all unwittingly is, misses his Cute Young Thing and finds me an insufficiently attractive and perky substitute. Still. He's gonna have to admit I can do the job.

(I'm tired of him telling me I won't be able to do the upcoming Conference without a mysterious and non-existent "book" that the Tweenybopper supposedly assembled for me.

I had five things to do. Code two surveys (both are done), load them (will do after final approval), ship them (ditto), and take a job to the printer (can't do until he turns loose of it and whatinthehell he's doing with it is a mystery to me since I took care of the limited amount of "designing" required before I handed it over to him to review).

My swiftitudiousness (is so a word) on the more complicated of the surveys (the one I was whining about yesterday) is due in no small part to Bernie having designated today as one of his "work at home" days. It's very peaceful here today. DiamondGirl and I are getting so much done that we felt free to stop working entirely and enjoy a leisurely, 30-minute lunch break.

However, said swiftitudiousness (is so) is probably due in much larger part to my being so literal-minded. When I studied Logic in college, I found it a joy. I find coding a program that uses simple logic to be…well, pretty simple. My brain is very linear. It coos over If-Then statements.

Bottom line is, I'm happy. I got a job done quickly and easily that I thought was going to be long and tedious. I'm full-up of nice Chinese food.

It did not snow yesterday or today and while it's also not 80 outside, it's a very nice day.

(Also? Today my bathroom is almost as clean as it was Sunday evening.

Because? 8:40 p.m. That's when I finished giving the bathroom its post-Snake cleaning last night. I'm doing laundry tonight, but I can feel a reprise coming over me. I'll be cleaning parts of the bathroom again on Thursday.)