14 posts tagged “work”

The holiday party ended up at the bar because the brewery was closed.  That was a bit bizarre, but it was a nice break and a good visit with all my colleagues.

My office is finally finished, about 3 months after I moved in.  I was finally able to put all my stuff away and hang my art.  Makes a huge difference.

Not too bad for the first day back to work in almost a week.

I got a kick-ass Flickr integration plugin to work in Textpattern, which I thought was gooing to be a no go on our ancient work server.  Now Brian can have cool galleries on his museum site, which is turning out much better than I anticipated.

Today was essentially my boss's last day.  There is a reception for him tomorrow, where I may see him for about 30 seconds, but that's pretty much it.

I am very sad that he is leaving, despite being happy for him.  I respected him more than I realized, and have the utmost respect for him for continuing to push me even when I was already doing more than what was expected.  He has a way of understanding how to push us to do our personal best, without pushing too far.  I learned as much during the past 3 years as I learned in grad school, about graphic design and marketing and leadership, without realizing it was happening.  He pissed me off sometimes, which just proves that he knew what he was doing.

But the reason this post is here is that I am able to be grieving without being completely comatose with depression. I feel like a new chapter of my life is starting, rather than the whole thing ending.  I has been a really long time since I've felt this way.  I almost feels better to be reasonably, normally sad than to be happy.

So, how come people are spending money buying Dreamweaver when Frontpage comes with Office, which we all have, and is already paid for?

• A. Ok, you may leave now.  No, really.  You don't belong here.
• B. Bwa ha ha ha ha ha! Good one! Oh. You were serious.
• C. [diplomatic look] Well, this decision is made by departments and they use what they are comfortable with, but Frontpage isn't the software I would recommend in terms of dealing with web accessibility and using the most up-to-date technology....

How the hell was I able to pull that off without offending anyone?  Sometimes I amaze myself with my ability to survive at my job...

Over 70 (!) people showed up to my Web Council meeting.  Everyone said it went well-- I can never tell how I did with any public speaking.  I think I hate doing it so much that it overshadows any rational assessment I can make.  But now I am done until next semester at least...

I whipped out a site for work in the past two days, and this afternoon when I browser tested it, it didn't need any hacking at all.  It worked in IE 5, 5.5, 6, and 7, and looked almost the same as it did in the real browsers.  Good feeling.

Things at work continue thoer downward spiral, but I got asked to take on a project outside of work that has the potential to be very rewarding.

My new Mac Pro is smoking fast, and I have more RAM arriving in a couple of days.  I love new toys.