Fun.

Yeah, it's not really fair for me to say that nobody did anything. They all worked hard on getting the graphics together, and the presentation actually *looked* amazing, the slides were seriously *beautiful* (which I guess is what happens when you let a graphic designer run with it!).

But I was surprised that they hadn't put any descriptive text out there to describe the beautiful screenshots and that they were waiting for me to do that. Oh, and the beautiful screenshots... were *very* heavy graphics that just about killed the presentation. Like... it was taking me 5+ seconds to switch pages in the presentation. It was a bit crazy. We're going to need to reign that in a bit because there's really no need for graphics that are that are so big they're killing PowerPoint!

Oh! Your migraines... have you ever googled "silent migraine". You might want to look that up and see if it fits. I *think* that there ARE migraines like that - with all the migraine-like symptoms, but no headache. It might be important to know, because migraines apparently raise your risk level for strokes in the future , just fyi. I just don't know that a sinus problem would cause that level of nausea...

Wow - I'm sorry that you're dealing with things like sabotage! That's crazy! And the fact that someone had been installing their own RAM for years, and suddenly "can't" do it without help. Pffft. Nope! I'm glad that your boss doesn't want you wasting time driving all over the place, but yikes. What a pain!

I wonder, can these things be batched? I mean, getting more RAM is SO not an emergency! It could wait... even weeks or months if it had to. It's not like the person can't work at all. Maybe it would be more efficient if you could plan a day at the other office, say once a month, to do everything? I know, it's still not what you want to be doing, but it might be better to have it planned and batched, rather than randomly making trips out there every few days for one person's RAM issues ?

"The biggest problem I have with these people is that they have solutions worked out that make no sense...." Wow! That's so... strange!

I don't know how you do it. Well, OK, I guess you do it the same way that I do it... by just managing to keep going, one day at a time, and dealing with it as you go along. But really, it shouldn't be so completely nuts!

Work shouldn't feel like you're the only sane one there!

Yeah, the condo thing was a little unreal. I was probably overreacting a little bit, but I was in a crappy mood, and really didn't need that. I was pretty worked up about it, but I think I should have foreseen how that would go - I *hate* social networking type sites, so it's not surprising that this wouldn't work for me. Oh well, now I know.

re: Looking for another job. I agree... I need to be doing this, and I hear you, but I really don't think I can manage to do the stuff I need to for a job that doesn't look any more appealing than what I'm doing now. I don't need to find a perfect, dream job... but if I don't think it sounds interesting/exciting - it's going to be hard to summon up any sort of motivation to move forward with. And, really, I *want* to be excited about a new job! I like being useful, working, learning, contributing... ugh. It's frustrating.

We made it to the end of another week! Yay! That's worth celebrating! And, it's almost June, which means that the year is almost half over! (Which is only exciting because we're that much closer to Winter, and I usually save up vacation time so that I can totally check out for a few weeks near the end of the year.)