Bernie is 'working from home' today. Since Buehler is out of town on vacation, I'm alone here in the office. It's gloriously peaceful.

I've exported the company's task list, the shared sales contacts, and my personal e-mails into Excel files, preparing for the Great E-Mail Migration on Monday. I'm currently copying all of my docs from the in-office exchange server (which we also use for our network) to my hard drive.

I've done everything I can think of to be sure I can still work on Monday if the entire network crashes around our heads.

The next task on my list is bookkeeping, including filing my expenses for reimbursement for the last three months.

I think I'm entitled to dink around for a few minutes before I face that task. Considering that I haven't even balance my own checkbook in fifteen years, I think it's understandable that I'm not excited by the bookkeeping portion of my job.

(Whoops. There goes my peaceful day. The broadcast e-mail that was supposed to go out at 8:00 last night hasn't gone. Chaos Boy just called, wigging out. I was supposed to check my e-mail last night and this morning to look for it and I totally forgot.

He apparently did check, but didn't bother to notify either me or DiamondGirl that it hadn't shown up and now, fourteen hours later, he's worked himself into a tizzy about it.

Now he's IMing me that he doesn't want me to work on anything else until this is resolved...but there's nothing I can do about this. Only DiamondGirl can fix it. She's not at home, but when I called her, she said she'd head straight home and look into it.

Granted, I accept responsibility for not having followed up (and I assume she will accept the same) but sending e-mails and calling me every ninety seconds and IMing me while he dials the phone or hits "send" on the e-mail isn't going to help.

Sigh. I was going to write a whole, long, lovely post about the interesting things I've been reading recently, while I wait for this massive file-transfer to finish, but I guess I'd better find something like "work" to fill my time.