It's springtime in Colorado and, by way of celebration, Mother Nature isn't dumping a snowstorm on us until later tonight. With a forecast of only six inches, I can't quite justify working from home tomorrow. Very sad.

I'm very bleah today.

I brought some pastry to have for dessert today. Ever since I ate it, I've been thinking that it was just a little off, you know? I guess if I'm dead or hospitalized tomorrow, it's my own fault. I should have noticed as I ate it.

Of course, if I'm d or h tomorrow, it might have been the yogurt I forgot I left sitting on the counter, stuck back in the refrigerator, then ate two days later.

I do live dangerously.

Today I'm in trouble with Fun Bobby for not taking advantage of having been assigned a spot in the parking garage. I told him I'd forgotten, but that's not really the problem. The problem is that if I park there, when I exit I have to go south and I live directly north of the office, so I'd have to go down two blocks, make a left-hand turn in heavy traffic, make a u-turn somewhere back in that residential neighborhood, come back to the main road, turn right, and drive the two blocks back to the spot where I started. For someone with a long commute that might not sound so bad, but I estimate that it would just about double my drive time.

Someone already tried to run me over last night, so I don't need my commute to be any more dangerous. (He wanted my lane. Specifically, he wanted the piece of my lane I was driving in. He was Very. Angry. When he realized that I was not going to evaporate so he could take the space I was occupying.)

Gidget emailed earlier, needing help with her Webstrainer campaigns, so I stopped doing the work I'm paid for and helped her out for an hour.

I was focusing earlier today, and very intently, on the work I'm actually paid to do. But then I had to spend 2-1/2 hours setting up the physical radius of two campaigns for 'Nuts who are next door to each other but who don't get along well enough to share a single campaign. I think my brain melted down. (This process usually takes me about five minutes per campaign.)

Yesterday I took about fifteen minutes out of my morning to go and chat with two or three of my co-workers. I was bonding, okay? People complain that I don't do enough of that kind of thing, so I invested a few minutes in it.

Just to prove that it can be dangerous to goof off on company time, when I got back to my desk, I found that I had fallen hopelessly behind on the technology curve* and was in danger of no longer knowing how to do my job!

I was going to worry about that, but I have a month in which to get caught up, so I decided not to bother.

I have to go to the stupid 'Nuts stupid annual conference. It's in two weeks, which I guess answers the question about whether or not I can squeeze another paycheck out of this place. NewBoss Anais has proposed that we do two "round-table" discussions so we ("I") can tell people what they "need to know" about their internet marketing.

I reminded her that, from my point of view, what they need to know is that it all works a lot better if they don't know anything and don't try to help. She did not seem to feel that this showed the right spirit, but it's all a matter of perspective, isn't it?

I'm even boring me today.

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* Webstrainer rolled out their new UI** and it was every bit as confusing as I'd feared it was going to be.

And buggy. I hate how technology companies have taken to beta-testing their products on their paying clients but, in Webstrainer's defense, their program is so complicated and there are so many ways to use it that I doubt if a beta-group exists anywhere in the world capable of actually testing it.

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** User Interface