I can't get any work done because the Google system I use is unexpectedly "down for maintenance" right now. I hope it's not some kind of major crash. It's only been five minutes and I'm bored silly.

I have two (two!) parcels over at the apartment office to be picked up. I can't remember anything I've ordered that hasn't arrived, but they may be In-bound Presents, who knows?

I sent a snarky email to Ashlyn, who lives in Vegas. She's always so smug about how she doesn't live near the mountains where it gets cold and snows. Since it snowed in Vegas this week, I wanted to give her a little nudge. :)

Yesterday was the office's holiday party--a potluck lunch and a gift exchange. It was fun--everyone was stealing the "good gifts" from TeamChaos and the people who got unwanted gifts were trying to convince each other that cheese spreaders or old flower vases were just what they wanted. I wound up with a pack of playing cards and a Starbucks card, so I'm happy. :)

I don't know how much is on the Starbucks card, but I don't care--even if it's just $5, one latte is better than no latte! Sometimes I'm amazed (and wistful) to remember how I used to have one or two lattes every day, as a matter of course.

Today, I came in and loaded newsletter stories into the intranet, a job that reception is supposed to be doing now except that DebLor found the step-by-step directions, with pictures, I wrote for her just too confusing.

Then I did final edits on the text for six webpages we paid the Crazy George Company to write for us, wondering all the while why if we're paying "experts" they couldn't manage to get little things like grammar and punctuation right.

Then I reviewed the final text for six print flyers that my own personal ChaosManager, Vela, has been developing with an outside marketing company for the last six months and found myself curious to know how four people could have already reviewed them, multiple times, and not seen the grammar and punctuation errors.

First, as I know I've said before, anyone relying on me for the final word on correct punctuation is in real trouble.

Second, I can't do more for DebLor than I've already done. I wrote her directions on how to do it. IWhen I think that I had to teach her how to make a new folder in her "My Documents" folder on the network, I despair.

I need to be surrounded by smarter people. Stupid makes me crazy. (In this case, "stupid" is defined as, "people without the courage to just open the program and teach themselves to do what has to be done.")

Anyhow.

That all wasted two hours of my day that I'd like to have back now. If I'd known that Google was going to go down, I'd have saved those projects....

I have just a small, few more things to pick up for Christmas and then I'm done! I can't decide whether to try to get it done on my lunch break today, or hope that tomorrow's snowstorm isn't so severe that I can't sneak out then. They've lowered the forecast to a 10% chance of snow.

Blah, blah, blah. Bored and boring.