cabbitzilla

Telework Week 15 of Infinity ...

2020-06-29T13:45:49Z

Although Maryland is slowly, cautiously (yet still too damned fast) opening, the College (HCC) has already made the decision to be nigh completely online though the fall semester. *sigh* Why the sigh, you ask? Because that plants me pretty much on my ass at home through Christmas with precious little to do. From what I understand, every time my Director tries to give me a project, her supervisor snags it and 'reallocates' it to someone else (who's already overworked). It's really terribly annoying.

Fortunately I have income to fall back on, but that's not really the point, now is it? I rather like my job, despite how often it makes me tear my hair out. All things considered, I'd rather have the work. *just shakes her head* A waste of good material, I say.

And given that my Director is wanting to retire, I'm faced with the very real possibility that my extension center may simply be shut down and the three part-time positions (of which mine is the senior) just be liquidated. It really depends on what Beverly does. I'm praying she'll stay long enough to box Mina (associate VP, 2 steps above her) into filling the other empty positions and thus making it MUCH more complicated to shut us down.

One old friend has emerged from the woodwork (Hihi, phaex) whom I'm quite glad to see. I've missed you, lad. :) Glad to hear that things are -finally-sorting out for you. Also glad for the family update; you've got the CUTEST kids! Heeheee.

'tis about all I have for the moment. Probably more in a few days.

~Ellie

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sigh Telework Week 11 - SSDD

2020-06-01T13:45:25Z

Still no sign of a project being sent down the pipe to me to work on, leaving me sitting idle. I'm praying that my Director can make a case to keep me on the payroll, just at 0 hours, come July 1 ... I've been at this job for over 16 years, and eventually we WILL be back in the buildings. Nobody knows the systems in my building better than I do.

In the interim, I occupy myself with Second Life, Minecraft, and Guild Wars 2. And music, lots and lots of music. The new Cowin BlueTooth headphones have been quite nice and comfy.

To be honest, this is what I've always kinda feared about being unemployed: just sorta ... sitting. *sigh* Between the Corona lockdown and now the spreading (and justified!) protests, plus my lack of a running vehicle, I'm going nowhere fast. Whoopie.

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Why yes, I -AM- still alive...

2020-05-29T02:52:13Z

I'm going to stick this up here in case I missed someone who might be interested in it ...

I found a -lovely- (if not quite complete) fan-fic series, a Harry Potter / Addams Family crossover that really tickled me to death. I found it to be quite a lot of fun, really.

The author is kyaru-chan ( https://www.fanfiction.net/u/546831/kyaru-chan ), and the series begins with the story simply titled 'Harveste', and then jumps to 'Harveste Addams and the Sorcerer's Stone' (and continues on-wards). The writer, based somewhere in the Philippines, sadly vanished two chapters into Half-Blood Prince, but it's still a wonderful read. So if that sort of thing appeals to you, go read it!

Shoo! *flings a handful of senbon after you*

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cabbitzilla @ 2012-11-12T23:06:00

2012-11-13T04:11:00Z

I have been betrayed
Chain of command against me
Do I stay or go?

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The Saga of Paul

2011-12-29T02:34:48Z

This has been a fun one to watch unroll.

First there was THIS.

It was followed shortly thereafter by THIS.

Gabe put his final thoughts on the matter HERE.

And then I found THIS. Update 26 is the coup de grace.

Another bully bites the dust. I feel bad for the man's family, though.

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cabbitzilla @ 2011-12-27T12:07:00

2011-12-27T17:09:21Z

Cue house lights in 3... 2... 1...
and...
December Doldrums.
Yeah, welcome to the blues. No good reason for them, really, they just are, and I hit them regular as clockwork about this time of year. Too many things going on and not enough motivation to do anything. Yeah, I know, mope mope mope. Anyway.

The driver's door lock on the Explorer that'd been sticking has decided to take things to the next level. Christmas Eve it decided to jam completely; when I went to open it from the inside it caught briefly and then went *POPsproinnnnnngKLUNK* and the handle just flops around now. In order to open the driver's door, I have to hope that the lock pops up and then roll down the window and use the outside handle. Fun, eh? :p

And the cats are fed, and I've had a nap and things are still a bit blue, but now I know why they're achey... it's pouring rain outside, which means my boyfriend Arthur Ritis has come to visit again. :p Heh. At least it's not snow. :) Maybe I'll give Mom a call and yammer with her for a bit.

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And now a short message...

2011-12-23T02:44:29Z

The combination of LiveJournal's release of the bombshell that was Patch 88 and Igrick's arrogance finally drove me out. Blessedly, the nice folks at DreamWidth were quite friendly and welcoming. Setup thus far has been relatively painless. Those of you who are DW users, please pipe up so I can get you added properly over yonder. Those of you who're OpenID users, let me know that too. What the hell, let's party, eh? :)

I'm going to continue to monitor things here, have no fear. Far too many things still going on here. But all of the posts will be cross-posts from the DW account, and when the paid time here expires in May LJ isn't very likely to get any more of my hard fought for money. I simply no longer trust them. Between the arrogance of certain folk in the CoC, and the constant DDoS attacks and the fucked up patches that everyone hates but are expected accept [10,000 voices hated Patch 88 in Beta and they rolled it out -anyway-. Thanks, Igrick, you arrogant bastard.] I no longer feel comfortable funding LJ.

Eleven years. That's how long I've been with LiveJournal. A long time. I've been patient, I've been generous, I've been forgiving. And now I've been pushed too far. Sorry.

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A brief test

2011-12-23T02:22:55Z

Testing to see if I have the cross-posting set up properly...

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