Raven on a Writing Desk

A free money, today only

2008-05-15T04:28:23Z

This company is competing with PayPal. We will see.

Wee paws....

2008-05-12T21:05:42Z

13:43 Everything has changed so much in the past three weeks, that I can't remember anything. Unexpected reboots fragment my files. #

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Adapting

2008-05-12T13:45:59Z

I walked my mile in 25 minutes today. It takes longer with Charlie, but we talk a lot and look at the plants. And I didn't measure the neighborhood. My mom's road is just a few yards longer than 1/2 a mile, so I did one circuit round and home again.

I started work early, maybe it will go better than it has been. Maybe I'll get to examine my statistics and see where the money is. And maybe I'll have time to go check out what Rome has to offer for computers.

too much for me.

2008-05-09T03:59:13Z

2200 lines today. at my fastest rate, that's 11 hours. After 11 hours, I'm not nearly that fast. Tomorrow, say goodbye to the nurse, and imagine that I can get this done in 8 hours.

Somehow, it's not getting better

2008-05-08T21:17:43Z

I tried to ask for help today, but apparently no one else was in, so we'll just plug along....

Other personal interests involve my not rearranging my schedule a lot, mostly canceling things, at least two more bit the dust today.

I really need to FINISH work at some point so I can pay bills and buy stuff and call my mom and shit.

Right now, I'm so busy, I can't figure out how to fit in eating without feeling guilty.

yes, I ate.

A Whiff of Money

2008-05-07T02:56:51Z

Damned Treo sales

Still buried.

2008-05-07T02:01:12Z

Work is still killing me. The last week of April I was working 90-100% of capacity... and struggling because I had other things to do.

This week, I'm actively looking for things to toss, although I've only just flat bailed on one thing so far, and working at 130-150% capacity. Sore now.

And I feel just like that guy in the song: "I've been one poor correspondent, and I've been too too hard to find, but it doesn't mean you ain't been on my mind."

I'm trying to read some livejournal today, while I have the chance of a "thin" day (75-80% of expected) and write some things, just in case the next chance is long-time coming...

What of y'all that reads this and wants me to comment on your journal or just thinks we need catching up (oldfolkieathome and polychromatic22 yes, I got phone messages, I call you back), holla back here.

Wee paws....

2008-05-02T21:08:11Z

19:53 Figuring out the universe again. #

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59 Hours Until The Weekend

2008-04-30T12:17:28Z

I just pulled my first real all-nighter with this job. I've stayed up until 1, 2, 3 a.m., but last night I went to bed at 4:30 and got up at 5. At some point, I WILL conquer this.

In those 59 hours, I will only be working 8.5 at the pledge drive, and 2.5 for drive time. I should work approximately 20 at my actual job. Yay, job! 3 hours for SCA tonight. If I take 14 hours for sleep, I should still have 11 hours of free time. Somehow, I doubt this will work out that way.

I have a timekeeper program. I'm tempted to run it for the following 59 hours, but then again, maybe I don't really want to know.

Wee paws....

2008-04-29T21:07:36Z

11:06 Late for work, smelly, chores undone, bills unpaid- was sposed to be better this week. #
11:46 Also new spec office. Pretty but ambitious, maybe overly-- after what? 9 years gone, I still respond like a reporter. #
11:58 I do not like 1st Bapt. Emerson steeple. Nothing under it. Just wrong. #

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Now I know where to play this game

2008-04-29T20:08:50Z

Charlie gets annoyed when I give him incomplete information and expect him to respond. He feels like has to have the "right" answer, and he doesn't even know what the question is.

Several of you have just been caught giving answers when you don't have enough data.

...besides the ones of you who have pushed my buttons and will be given to the Cat to play with.

No, I wasn't intending to play with anyone's head, I was hoping to make a joke. But now I know what to do the next time I DO have a devilish itch to scratch.

Someone write me THIS response:

2008-04-29T18:22:40Z

Really, why do you think you need to "completely eliminate" cigarettes from your diet? Do you not realize that it's the feeling of deprivation that makes "no-smoking" diets fail over and over again? And seriously, you need to have a little fun and not be so hard on yourself.

DO NOT FEED THE BRAT

2008-04-29T16:47:54Z

I have been promising I would lose weight, and that I HAD quit smoking, for two years now. This is it. Thanks for all the chocolate and lasagna and stolen smokes, but I am AS OF NOW officially cutting out my entire bread and grains group and all sweets and all tobacco products. So if you see me drunk or high or stupid with hunger in the next couple of weeks, point me at the raw veggies and please don't let me sabotage myself. Further updates will follow.

I have my x-tra large coffee (two cream, no-cal sweetener) with me. We'll be fine.

out of rope

2008-04-29T16:24:23Z

It is so good that there is more work now. I maxed out my credit card.

Nick of time

2008-04-29T16:14:25Z

The trashman comes at noon. I pulled in, decided to take the garbage can up the driveway and just load any trash I found the long way. Before I got in the house, the garbage man was picking up the can. Luckily, we don't make a whole trash can full of trash (meaning the big professional kind, that are like, big enough for three of me) each week.

There are wild daisies all over behind the corral. There's thistles by the driveway. There's wisteria on the porch. Spring All Over.

Posted using TxtLJ

2008-04-29T15:55:48Z

Totally need nails done and to write about rights. What does that word mean?

Posted using TxtLJ

2008-04-29T15:52:28Z

"Get things done" means first, write it down when you think of it. So, I need to get srs abt revamping my data program. Phone is underutilized.

Lost in the internets

2008-04-24T11:14:19Z

I have vague memories, now, of things I meant to read and stuff I meant to catch up on. I have no idea what or where any of it is. I'm slowly sinking back into sleep dep. I'm going to have to clear my calendar at some point.

I found out what the pill is in my jam: It's that sixth dictator. Apparently, he is really slow (that I don't mind), and dictates loooong records (that I kind of do). I went to bed with 80 minutes of recording, I woke up to 110. Who monologues for 14 minutes at 10:30 p.m.? And then does it again an hour later? Doesn't he watch TV or something like normal people?

On the other hand, I remember when I was surprised and alarmed that I was only doing 110 lines an hour. Now I'm getting much closer to 200, with a solid baseline of at least 150. I want to take that up another notch, with the baseline at 200, but expansions and ergonomics should help with that. Typing all day yesterday with the laptop actually ON my lap, I was teh swetty. I'm going to add an ergonomic keyboard. It's not tidy, but it may be important.

Other things on the agenda: Dinner with Mark tonight and --OMGSRSLY-- get some time and money issues sorted out. I have about $300 in bills to pay, and about $200 to pay them with, so we're going to have to chat with some folkses about putting it off ONE more month.

OK, LiveJournal, WHAT?

2008-04-23T11:44:40Z

Is anyone else having problems with the "reply" function in LiveJournal? None of my reply comments are staying threaded! What if other people are having the same problem, and I've missed the chance at an internet flame war because I wasn't aware of the subtle personal attacks being launched at me?

(And why is it that all of my moods--wry, sarcastic, snarky, ironic--are too complex for smileys? This needs to be addressed.... Someone needs to make me twisted smileys.)

Back on the Pledge Phones

2008-04-23T11:07:45Z

Morning at WABE. I have to go long and hard at work when I get back to Charlie's, so I am trying to soak up the chance to surf and free time in between calls.

Your Slogan Should Be

Put Up with Scyllacat or Put Up With Anything

The Slogan Generator

I am afraid to think how people--particularly exes--are going to take this.

Wee paws....

2008-04-22T21:03:01Z

12:24 I need push-through (FIFO) luggage. I keep packing the important stuff FIRST and having to dig to the bottom for it. #
12:25 P.S. You guys are expensive. I still used up all my txt msg allowance this month again. This time, $13. #

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scyllacat @ 2008-04-22T12:08:00

2008-04-22T16:15:37Z

Too long between posts, I haven't had half a minute, that there weren't seven other things I needed to do. I have a new tent. I found my old girlfriend (and her husband cognus and kids). I just got 4 new dictators at work. I'm officially overextended.

But I just wanted to note that, apparently, fuzzy-callerpidder season is right after pinetree-sex season. I shooed several of them off my tent last night and this morning, along with a daddy longlegs and a water-skater-type bug. I also noted a black-and-white woodpecker type that I hadn't seen before, but on the tree next to the tent, not on the tent.

Reasons not to discuss the apocalypse on an empty stomach

2008-04-17T12:34:25Z

Mark was telling me all the reasons people who are caught up in planning for the apocalypse/Rapture/collapse of the economy/depression/tsunami/hurricane/TEOTWAWKI are just crazy and failing to understand real survival issues.

I woke up this morning after dreaming of being a food whore in a post-apocalyptic world. In my Mad Max world, you eat contaminated food because it's that or no food.

Wee paws....

2008-04-15T21:21:30Z

09:00 New work, new work, new work, yay! #

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A quick run-down

2008-04-15T17:29:27Z

Quickly catching up here, because there's new news:

I'm at Emily and Harry's now. The trash has been picked up, the laundry and washing machine are running, and I've swept.

I woke up this morning to big news from my supervisor: One of our ladies has put in her notice, so I will get three of her people, and I expect this will keep me hopping. However, this should equal tons more money, enough that I'll have to actually calculate some taxes out, but I should be able to start on some of those upgrades I've had in mind. First, though, as heofmanynames points out, paying down the credit card and getting the teeth fixed. Then a plan for the long term.

I will be back in Rome Sunday night because I have my next dental appointment Monday. (Note to self, send in the prescription form, and pay the doctor's bills.) And I'll need to do a heck of a lot of sorting to figure out what is going in the next garage sale... which we've put off another week. *sigh* I want this done, this cleaning out and fixing up the house, but it is going to take much longer than I had originally planned. However, I will be in Atlanta the rest of the week, starting this evening.

I also had news from polychromatic22 but I don't know if she's posted it yet, so I'll let her say.