I am registering with a temp agency tomorrow and today I took all the assessments online. I have forgotten an awful lot that I used to know how to do. So now I am frustrated with my lack of brain.

But, whatever, I am where I am. And I have the opposite skew of work/life balance from most of you, which is enjoyable for the present.

Good luck with the old cat, Nora. I don't know what the best thing to do is but your plans sound pretty good.

Eta: love that picture, sarameg!

Okay--I'm going to take a bit of downtime, and then make tea, curl up with the presentation, give it about thirty minutes, and that should be enough time to knock it out.

I don't know if I'm lazier than other people, or what. But an IT director is asking my help presenting project status on projects I haven't known about for a week to execs who've known about them longer. The key thing I want is all recent CEO and CIO presentations that use language I can pillage for this--our company goals, values, mottos, anything. I want to re-use that as I talk about what we're doing in this project and why.

Because that's the fastest possible way to the maximum positive reaction. But most of the IT people I asked about the CEO presentation I missed on Monday are looking at me blankly. Is that because you don't remember, or because you don't get my motive? I bet Marketing gets my motive (and this is why a writer who calls the colour of Melissa McCarthy's dress "elephant" anything is being an ass). Words don't just mean, they resonate and linger. I need to re-use an impact someone higher up than me has already made, dammit.

Nevermind. Let me go have my brief break, and then down to work.

In the meanwhile--one of the IO9ers turned 50 day, and her husband gave her this ring which is all sorts of (resonant and) perfect.

Husband starts March 18. There will obviously be some time where he is down there and I am up here. House-hunting trip planned in early March.

That's really exciting Dana. Of course, last time I visited you it was in Houston, so this is just the universe correcting itself.

Great, now I'm having terminology anxiety. Fit/gap analysis--is that IT exec only, or general exec?

The telecommuting talk with my manager did not go well, so I am looking at jobs in Houston. Which is killing my soul.

That's too bad, Dana. I hope you find something great.

I am backing up! Backing up is happening now! Whoot.

beep beep beep t sounds of backing up

Ah...(Radio Free) Vestible joke callback: Beethoven backing up his truck. 20-odd years later, and it seems NOT GETTING OLD YET.

I wish they had jokes that one could tell, though. Thank god everything's pirated onto the web.

Woot! I'm typing this on my new Chromebook. It works!

In other fun news, we got a visit from FAQ!Wife tonight. So fun to see her, and unexpected.

Also: Emmett blasted a triple in his first game of the season, a long shot into the right field corner. Excellent opposite field power. And the team won.

But mostly - cheap cool little computer!

So I finally figured out how to autopay my utilities at my new apartment...that I've been in for six months. And feel dumb because I missed the one thing to click on on the website, but anyway, at least that's done!