FYI @ Jen

LinkedIn post coming up. Written, just need to check it. It is kinda late right now... (It even has screenshots!)

Just For Me?

"Motivational" posters are all around the office. However I am suspicious that this less motivational one may have been put up just for me...

What Jonathan Can Work On

So for the first time in a couple of years I logged into LinkedIn on the recommendation of my manager who has offered to endorse me on LI more than once. That's kinda cool.

I found an endorsement from someone else I had requested some time ago. The end of it:

"...As for something that Jonathan can work on? Well, that would be easy, I think he drank too much Mountain Dew! :)"

Schitz / I Talk Too Much Sometimes (But Not Usually)

I have way too many ideas these days. I have so many posts written in my head, but I never seem to find the time and energy together to write them. I have at least half a dozen programming projects that are half done in my head. I think two of them have something resembling actual code.

I also am trying to be clever with the new name. I'm not sure its all that clever. But what the heh, I try. (If you don't know what it means look it up.*)

I do have one nice work story that I can share. I used to work for Slumberland Furniture in their IT department. I was technically an intern, but for all practical purposes got shuffled through nearly every position there, usually for no more than a couple of months. But I did everything.

I learned a lot of things there, and I am quite thankful the experience. One thing that I didn't have to learn was how to load paper into printers. I got that part down, uhm, let me think, elementary school. (I did learn how to load paper into printers older than me, however.)

At my soon to be alma mater students are not allowed to load paper into the printers. It really is about the stupidest policy in the world. The only redeeming part about the policy is that if you call the help desk they get someone up there pretty quickly. (I know because I had to call if there wasn't paper available for me to illegally load.)

So a couple days ago (meaning sometime since I starting working at my current job) I went to print out a massive document, I needed to load paper in the printer before hand. Basic, run of the mill HP LaserJet. I asked a collegue if I could load the paper myself. I could. I was pleased.

As I was loading the paper I went on eloquently wax and wane about how stupid my soon to be former school's policy was and how I could load paper perfectly well thank-you-very-much.

Can anyone guess where this is going? Yeah.

I completely bungled it. I managed to drop the entire tray. Right in front of the person I was boasting about my oh-so-clever paper loading skills. And then I had to restack the paper, get the drawer back while this collegue was watching and I was turning red as a pepper.

I finally got it done and made it back to my cubicle as fast as possible. The only time in my life I've been thankful for a three and a half walled grey cell. (Seriously, at least real jail cells have a full wall with bars. And they are white. Oh, and often have cable. Oh, and they get fed for free.)

When I was finally done with my job (it took a long time, it wasn't one of the big do-it-all machines, just a "regular" (home office type) printer. It was a big job. So I was told I should have printed it to the big-made-for-large-documents printer.

That was -- easily -- the worst day on the job. Needless to say my level of hubris dropped a couple of levels after that (I did redeem myself to some degree later, but I can't blog about it.)

Worst part, I really, really, deserved it. Really really.

*It's Greek: +3 cool points for my blog...

"I made cupcakes..."

I made cupcakes, please help yourself, they are in the empty marketing cube

That is a nice email to be reading as soon as you get into work. Of course, I maybe be violating some confidentiality:

This email message and any attachments are for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain information that is proprietary to [The Company] and/or its subsidiaries or otherwise confidential or legally privileged. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender by reply, and delete all copies of this message and any attachments. If you are the intended recipient you may use the information contained in this message and any files attached to this message only as authorized by [The Company]. Files attached to this message may only be transmitted using secure systems and appropriate means of encryption, and must be secured using the same level of password and security protection with which the file was provided to you. Any unauthorized use, dissemination or disclosure of this message or its attachments is strictly prohibited.

Watching Bethel

It's been a bit. This one goes slower, kinda cool to watch. At some point (sadly, perhaps a month out) that will be much longer and thus smoother. It is really cool to be able to watch the trucks moving around (as opposed to a flash here and a flash there).

PR: wait... I: wait... L: wait... LD: wait... I: wait... wait... C: wait... SD: wait...

"This is a free country."

"No, this is a democracy and the majority of us don't like what is going on here." - Ice-T (sp?) on CSI:SVU

Responding to, uhm some sort of "bad guy."

I Am the Awesome

On Thursday I had to get to the airport so I could visit Knoxville. The airport is 30 minutes away, I had to be there by 5:25 am.

I left at 5:00.

I was there at 5:20.

I am the Awesome.

Voter Registration Online, Kinda

Both campaigns have made it incredibly easy to register online, but I will present the McCain link because that is what I have in front of me. Basically it's just like filling out the form on paper, except that the site populates all the fields in the appropriate form for your state, you download the PDF and... mail it. That last part is weird. But whatever. Maybe other states have straight-up online registration, just not MN.

https://secure.johnmccain.com/ActionCenter/registertovote/information.aspx

@Tubagirl: I didn't forget you! You and Katie were two, so Jen & J doubled my readers.