Three

Three, rhymes with pee (*)

Freak Out,
-TFitC

(*) Yay, toilet humour!

We Learned Chinese on Tuesday

As part of my effort to stave of boredom in my final weeks at work, I tend to browse the web for various things that tickle my fancy at any given time. This past week, I was reading through some on-line Chinese lessons. As I was doing so I thought: "It's Tuesday today. Huh."

That is all.

Freak Out,
-TFitC

Four

It's less than five, but more than zero.

Freak Out,
-TFitC

How Bad Could It Be?

Came across a "Terrible Crossover Fanfiction Idea Generator" and got some amusing ones, including this:

Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Final Fantasy 7 and Harry Potter.
The story should use a seemingly routine day as a plot device!

Generated by the Terrible Crossover Fanfiction Idea Generator

Freak Out,
-TFitC

So Boring...

Aaaaagh. Work is soooo boring right now! I don't really have much to do... Part of the reason I gave six weeks notice for quitting was so that they'd know not to give me any new things to do since I'll be leaving in the near future and obviously can't start anything major since I won't be around to finish it. Having finished off the two new features I was working on, I'm basically just fixing bugs and beefing up documentation. Except... there've been very few bug reports, meaning either there just aren't many, or QA just hasn't gotten around to testing the stuff. I'm inclined to believe it's the second. So that means that I'm mostly doing documentation and whatever little things I can dig up, and it's boooooooring!

Sigh.

Oh well, there could be worse things. Anywho, before I run along, just a quick "congratulations" at the result of the American election. I'm glad to see Obama won.

Freak Out,
-TFitC

Five

Ok, so I probably shouldn't be counting down as that will just make things seem to go by slower, but I'm going to anyway.

FIVE more weeks left at my current job.

That is all.

Freak Out,
-TFitC

Musical Convocation

The UW orchestra played at convocation this term (which was today). To prepare, we had our regularly scheduled rehearsal time on Thursday night, then dress rehearsal for convocation last night and finally played for both the morning and afternoon convocations today. As a result, I'm a little orchestra'd out, so I think the cello will be neglected a bit for the next couple of days.

Not much to say about the convocations themselves. The chancellor's speech was the same at both of them, as far as I could tell, at least. I also noticed that one of the PhDs in the afternoon convocation (which was the math, CS, engineer, science types) had a Star Trek tie that looked exactly like one I've got, though I've not worn it in years and years, seeing as I generally try to avoid wearing ties whenever possible.

That is all, Freak Out,
-TFitC

Wark! Wark!

It's official now - I've submitted my "two weeks" notice at work. I put that in quotation marks as it's really a month-and-a-half notice, so as to give them hopefully sufficient time to get a good start on finding a replacement before I leave. My end date is Dec 5, which will give me about 4 weeks off before starting in on my PhD, depending on when exactly classes start.

And that, as they say, is that.

Freak Out,
-TFitC

Elections and Other Annoyances

I'll start with the other annoyances.

Today was the first day back at work after my four day weekend. I was greeted with over 100 messages in my in-box, most of which were due to people being stupid. It seems that, some time Monday afternoon, whilst I was blissfully not at work due to Canadian Thanksgiving, some employee (presumably from one of the American offices) thought it would be a good idea to send what was essentially spam to pretty much the entire company, though, granted, it could have been an honest mistake. However, this was followed by people using reply to all to basically say "wtf?", despite being repeatedly told (including at least once by an admin) to NOT USE THE REPLY TO ALL button. Of course, people kept doing it, because, well, they're dumb.

Frankly, it does kind of amaze me that people have to be told to not use reply to all for something like that in the first place, let alone need to be told repeatedly not to do so and then keep on doing it. I mean, it's not like 99% of the people getting all those e-mails could actually do anything about it, the only person that needed to be replied to at all was the original sender. For my part, I would have (and did) just ignored and deleted the original message - and that is in fact what the CIO told people they ought to have done in the first place in a message today basically admonishing people for being stupid. (Though he didn't actually call them stupid, but probably should have.)

Anyway, moving on... today is the Canadian federal election. Joy. The one good thing I have to say about it, is that it's super convenient that I'm able to cast my vote in the building I live in - and I did so, pretty much right after walking into the lobby with basically no wait. But as to the election itself, I have to say that it's unfortunate that our political leaders are so, well... lame. They're all fairly uninspiring. Oh well. I've done my bit for democracy, so all I have to do now is wait and see how it all turns out.

Freak Out,
-TFitC

Chocolate Omelettes

I had an omelette for dinner this evening and took the opportunity to try a little experiment. You see, a while back, when I had some chocolates (rolos, I think, but I don't recall exactly) on hand and was making an omelette, I had the temptation to dump a couple of chocolates into the mix to see what it was like, but I did not follow through at that time. I've currently got some Hersey's Kisses on hand and decided to drop a couple into my omelette this evening to see how it would turn out.

The results were inconclusive. First, I think I need more than two piece of chocolate, and second, I probably need to melt them a bit before hand so that they can get distributed more evenly throughout the omelette.

Something to keep in mind for next time.

Freak Out,
-TFitC