This may not end well for my work laptop…

Awwww, look at that! Technology celebrating my work anniversary for me today!

I submitted a receipt to my Flex Spending Account (FSA) provider a couple days ago for some healthcare goodies I bought OTC that should be covered.

🎶 … the day the music died… 🎵

Have I ever mentioned that I run a quarterly coffee and tea exchange at work? I pick the dates, I promote and recruit, I assign grifters & giftees, and I follow up to make sure everything is fulfilled.

I woke up this morning with one of those eyeball headaches and decided to wear my glasses. Apparently I don’t do that often because I was on a video call with coworkers and at least three of them expressed abject shock at seeing me in glasses. 

I know this is now a year old, but why can’t Apple make a laptop like this ASUS Zenbook DUO 2024??

My company decided to try something new this year. Instead of giving us Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day off, the office is gonna close completely from Christmas Day through New Year’s Day.

Today I was having trouble figuring out a billing issue at work so I Slacked our project manager and asked for assistance. I messaged her what I did and what I thought I should have been doing instead. She told me what I should be doing but it sounded like she was contradicting herself.

Since Katie has a mandated uniform for her work, about the only freedom of expression she has is in her footwear. So she does. As much as possible. And sometimes, she gets funky.

Being an employee of a 100% remote company, I can technically work from anywhere I want… coffee shop, library, my car, Guatemala. As long as I have a secure Web connection, I’m golden.

On these annual company business trips that I just wrapped yesterday, we do a big group activity on the workday where we split into teams and play along with some fictional storyline that is developed by an outside company intended to promote team building.

On Slack earlier today, we were discussing the weather in the Pacific Northwest and, more specifically, Vancouver given that our annual conference is there in a day or so.

We did another plant exchange at work. First one since the middle of last year. Mine arrived yesterday!

Yaaayyyyyyyy!!!! Tonight, Katie and I booked our flights to and from Vancouver in May.

My boss at work keeps a resourcing calendar for all her charges. She wants to see, broken down on a monthly basis, how much each person is working on (or requested for work).

Considering I was in first place either solo or tied for the entire season save for one week when I was in second place, the fact that I finished the fantasy football season at work in seventh place really sucks rocks.

Returning to work after a holiday is rough. You get a little lazy. You forget what schedules are about. Maybe you even turned off your work email and Slack notifications.

Oh man, did my fantasy football team suck rocks this weekend. After spending nearly the entire season in first place, I crash and burn in spectacular fashion in the first week of the playoffs.

After losing last week and killing my perfect record and putting me in a tie for first place based on record (I have more points overall, so I was in true first), my fantasy football team at work came back in a pretty big way and won this week.

And just like that… my season-starting seven-game win streak that has kept me at the top of my work fantasy football league all season has come to an end.

I absolutely adore Google Chrome browser tab groups. I mean, it was pretty revolutionary when they introduced browser tabs way back whenever, but to then build on that by having browser tab groups where you can create a master tab with sub-tabs in them? I love being able to keep multiple tabs open that are related to a project and then group them under a client/project name. It has made my work life so much more manageable.

My fantasy football league at work held their draft tonight. It’s yet another year of me proving I have no idea what I’m doing.

The quarterly coffee exchange is in full swing for me at work and my gift of coffee beans arrived today from my buddy Dolan.

I fought against doing it. I really fought. They asked, I said no. They asked again, multiple times, and I said no each time.

This has to be one of the funniest things I’ve read in a while… remote work will lead to goblin-human hybrids by the year 2100?

Just in time for the 25th anniversary of the original drop of these hairy little monsters, Hasbro Toys has announced that they're reviving Furbys.

So you know how Katie and Nathan have gone on trips with me and my company for our annual in-person meetings for the last three summers?

Why do people just not care anymore? A scarily large number of people were ignorant assholes prior to the COVID-19 pandemic as it was. But they only got worse and empowered and seemed to take another big chunk of humanity down the rabbit hole of civil disobedience using the pandemic as an excuse for their behavior. 

I work with a bunch of video game junkies. We have an entire interest channel in Slack dedicated to videogaming. I follow the channel and participate a little bit here and there. But I'm not much of a gamer so I don't contribute to it to quite the same degree that some people do.

I don't even know why I do it since I watch absolutely zero college basketball games throughout the season. Alas, I filled out two March Madness brackets at work this year. No money; just bragging rights. 

Have any of you ever owned an office chair that started sinking after a while? Yanno, you sit in it and instead of it staying at the height you designated, it literally sinks? Mine is doing that now after about 2.5 years of use. 

I had to buy a new multi-plug adapter today to replace one that I’ve had for years. The one I replaced was an Apple branded product which, of course, means that a new one would be pricey.

At work, I head up a quarterly coffee/tea exchange where names are randomly drawn and that person sends his giftee a bag of coffee or tea up to a certain dollar value just so they can try something new.

Remember the talk about the desk redux? It’s done! Took some jiggling with wires and setups and mountings and placement, but we got it. And here it is…