Work has been a little better with the boss back, but the work keeps piling on and he's still catching up and I'm still learning new an interesting ways to confuse the email server, so... I'm trying to get out at around 8 these days. Yea the days are long, but the hours at the end are when stuff seems to actually get done. I've started to get a lot of things automated, now I just have to get people to realise that's the case. I get halfway through looking at a request for access to something and wondering why it doesn't work since stuff is there and realize that they didn't bother checking and just requested it because it used to be that way. Oh well, such is life. I probably sent it in a long email too.

Speaking of long email, today I got drafts of some documents for training. I feel bad since I sent a really long list of stuff to change (like 15K plain text - for comparison my average "long" email people say is too long has been around 5-6K). Apparently I'm like the first person to look at it though out of a decent handful, so hopefully that'll be the most they have to deal with.

Last night some Jeff and Sarah decided to drop by my office since they were on campus anyways and it was good to see them. Although Jeff and I seemed to get on a lot of geeky tangents. It was pointed out to me that I didn't have any music playing and that knowing me it's not due to a lack of cables available. They were right and it actually turns out that I had everything I needed in my office, so the powerbook now has one more cable connecting it while on the desk. Now I just need to remember to turn the volume on the powerbook to almost off before connecting it to the amp so I remain friends with my 2nd floor coworkers...

One week and about 9 hours until projects need to be ready to go. Can we make it? And how many of you didn't realize that's when Welcome Week starts and we get swamped? At least we still sorta get a half day idea from student workers moving in the day before - should be interesting.