Yeah, I'm back. And I'm guilty of Posting While Aggravated again. The tech guys, Larry, Moe, and Curley are, once again, the responsible parties.

Eleven! Eleven e-mails yesterday about an appointment I was setting up for Moe. I copied Larry on all of them, of course. Technically he's the clearinghouse person who controls keeping the calendar up to date, a job at which he seems to suck, but that's not the point.

The point is that at 10:00 this morning, Moe was surprised, even astonished to realize he had a 1:30 appointment today. And then he wandered into my office at 1:15! and said he didn't have the kind of computer connection he needed and what should he do? (He should have been at his own office, where the necessary computer connection did exist. Why he was here is a mystery…except that he'd forgotten he had an appointment.

I suggested that Curley could do it but nooo, Moe preferred to wander aimlessly around the office, come back, at 1:26, and ask me, again, what he was supposed to do and then finally go off to do the call. I later discovered he'd rescheduled it for next week and since I spent four weeks setting the original appointment up, I'm not pleased.

What are we paying these Stooges bazillions of dollars for if not their high-tech skills, I ask you?

Sheesh.

The Stooges are moving into some empty space in our office today. Larry and Moe are, anyhow. I think Curley's smarter than that. They feared I'd use their physical proximity to abuse them and push them around, something I assured them wouldn't happen but have now changed my mind about. Dooberheads.

They're nice guys, but I have a feeling that familiarity is going to breed a certain amount of contempt.

Except maybe for Curley. He's rather decorative. I'll forgive a lot for that.

So, I need to think of something cheerful to blog about.

Lemme see….

Went to the mountains this past weekend. Took off work early on Friday and took the bus up to Blackhawk. Spent the night there. Meant to do some gentle hiking/walking around but naturally wound up mostly gambling. I only lost about $100, which is pretty successful for me.

It was a gorgeous weekend, aside from being a bit too windy. (There was so much wind on east I-70, near the Colorado/Kansas border, that they closed the road because the dust left zero visibility. Unfortunately, they didn't make the decision until after there was a 17-car pileup on the highway.

Still, I look forward go going back up this summer. I'd like to walk from Blackhawk to Central City. It's not more than a mile or two and I hear that Central City is less changed by the influx of casinos than Blackhawk wound up being.

Other than that…let's see. I might get to go visit the Lily Lady this summer. I invited myself and she more-or-less confirmed I'd be welcome. That would be fun. I have to do another Familial Visit as well. My oldest niece is graduating high school (at 16!) and while I can't make it back for the day of the ceremony, I do need to get back there before long. I'd like to take her out for a day - maybe shopping and lunch, that kind of thing. Spend the kind of time with her I haven't been able to spend with her in years.

. . . .

Okay, that was Wednesday and now it's Friday.

Takes longer to write cheerful posts. Not that I've achieved that yet.

Today the stooges are falling all over themselves apologizing because yet another install got messed up, purely because they didn't do what they should have.

Anyhow. So I took two hours off, right there in the middle of the day, and cleaned. Wednesday was "trash day". Tweenybopper, the Perky Young Thing that works for a different business unit here in the suite did help. We went through the shipping office and throw away six trash cans full of stuff no one here even remembers saving.

And then this morning, I bought in a canister of those "disinfecting wet wipe" things and spent a couple of hours wiping down the shipping room, the conference room, the (empty) reception area, the copy room space, and my office.

In Anne's World, there's a difference between working in a place that's a bit messy and working in a pigsty. At this moment we're a bit closer to the former than we were a couple of days ago.

My goal is to make this place so tidy that Buehler, shamed by the chaos and squalor of the area around his desk, will actually do something about his contribution to the styness. I'll do many things, whether they're "my" job or not, but I draw the line at cleaning someone else's desk. Or the heaps and piles of debris around it.

Well, I haven't done much work yet today so maybe I'll go off and spend some time doing the kinds of things they pay me for.

If that palls, I'll stare out the window and watch it snow.