Also, she really should not wear belly shirts.

Anyway, so Rob quit his job today. So now he is very stressed out about finding another one and thinks he is going to end up living in a box on the street. But I'm very proud of him because it was awful working there, so he needed to quit. So Monday is his last day and the place will be scrambling. Ha ha. They suck. So needless to say, we will be trying to live cheaply. No trip this weekend (which we had been talking about doing - going away somewhere just for the weekend), no trip to IKEA, etc. until he gets a new job. So everyone think good thoughts about Rob getting a great new job. Preferably in downtown Boston so we can use the car less and maybe sell it, and so he can make better money and have a better commute, etc. Goodnight.  11:06:01 PM    

Ugh. I'm so annoyed. So at work I have been working on updating our company templates. The reason is that most of them have some formatting issues that become a problem as you add content to the document... like lines appearing in the middle of a page because of some border that was set up at the beginning of the document, etc. Anyway, nobody reading this cares about that part.

What I'm annoyed about is that of course at a big firm everything has to take forever and go through a zillion stupid committees, etc. But a while ago I had a meeting with the CFO, the IT Director and the Building Technology Director (I don't know exactly what that title means or exactly what his job is, by the way) to review the templates I had been working on and decide if they were ready to launch. There were a few small changes the CFO suggested and we were just going to work on how to organize them (ie: by usage basically) when they are done and saved on the network. So recently, this building technology guy has been making all these changes to the existing ones on the network. I don't know if that's because he just gets to, or because he doesn't realize that I haven't uploaded MY changes/new templates yet because I'm still working on them and didn't get final approval yet, or because he's just a bastard or clueless or what, but it's bothering me. So now I'm going to have to sit down with him and go through the changes he has made so I can be sure the changes are incorporated into the ones I'm working on, etc. I just don't know why so many people have to be involved. We had the meeting, why can't I just make the suggested changes, run them by everyone again, and that's that? Why does this person have to be working x and I'm working on y and someone else is working on z.... it's so freaking maddening.

Anyway, that's my story. This email posting thing might be a bad thing. I'm going to have so many posts some days...

The above paragraphs are from yesterday... we found out that the way the email thing works is if there are multiple messages waiting on the email server when the site checks it, it only posts the first one and deletes the others. So for now, I'm only going to send one post a day via email until we figure out something different.

Anyway, I wanted to complain about a stupid commercial last night but I forgot - it's a commercial for "body-heat activated" Degree antiperspirant/deoderant. Supposedly when you heat up it works harder to keep you not stinky or sweaty. Whatever. But the commercial is some Mission Impossible-esque scene where some guy is sneaking into a room where the floor is "heat sensitive" so he foils it by putting Degree on his feet. Um, OK, but Degree is not supposed to lower your body temperature, it's just supposed to keep you from sweating. So if the floor was sweat sensitive then his plan would work, but otherwise it does him no good. Ugh. So stupid. Do the people who write commercials even have the bare minimum of an "average" IQ?

Rob just quit his awful job. More on that later.  10:54:10 PM