Unsticking the mental Post-Its
May. 29th, 2008 04:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grammarwomanYesterday on the way in to work, the car in front of me had a license plate that caught my attention: "NECRO-LV". It also had the snerk-worthy bumper sticker "Everything I've learned I got from killing and eating the brains of smart people", along with several gothic and Misfits stickers and a Misfits license-plate holder. About the only thing it was missing was a "Support Our Zombie Troops". (Have I mentioned how tired I am of those yellow magnet ribbons? It's such an empty platitude, and considering how many of them are paired with Bush support stickers, horrifyingly ironic. My least favorite has to be, though, "These colors don't run" emblazoned on an American flag, especially when the sticker is so old that it's almost completely washed out. The colors may or may not run, but they certainly do fade.)
Walking out of work yesterday, I caught a flash of feathers out of the corner of my eye, accompanied by a piercing whistle. I watched as a brown bird hopped away from me, obviously trying to get my attention away from her nest. I stepped over to the gravel median and after some searching, found a cluster of four spotted eggs that were almost perfectly camouflaged in the rocks surrounding them. The mom was getting really pissed at me, yelling the bird equivalent of "I'm over here! Get away from there and come chase me, you dimwit!" I wanted to both applaud and scold her. It was a perfect piece of hiding, as I had to look really hard to find the eggs, but her placement of the nest in the median closest to the building meant that she would be getting bothered the maximum number of times a day. I was a little heartened when I came in this morning to find that someone had surrounded the nest with several orange utility marker flags. Here's hoping the eggs and their mom (from a little bit of research, it looks like she's a Killdeer) make it.
I've officially been given a new project at work, and I would almost be excited to do it, except that we got the crappy DBA for our support guy, and he's going to be so slow in filling any request. He's already a couple of hours overdue for making some simple table changes, which is delaying my construction of the data load, which is delaying making the actual screens, and so on. Nyargh.
I did get quite the unintended compliment yesterday, though, when the good DBA, who was reviewing some SQL changes I had made, questioned a complicated SELECT structure I had built. I wound up being right, and he learned something and was gracious about it. Go me! It's so refreshing to both be right and not have someone take offense at it. Stupid human (and around here, usually male) egos.
I've had a knot in my back for the past several days, right at what I call the crucifixion point - where the line between the shoulder blades crosses the spine. What I wouldn't give for a long massage...
Tomorrow is the husband's birthday, and I found a brilliant gift for him. Now I'm battling the "I want to give it to him NOW!" instant gratification feelings. (Must Wait!)
TGTF, for birthdays and BSG.
Walking out of work yesterday, I caught a flash of feathers out of the corner of my eye, accompanied by a piercing whistle. I watched as a brown bird hopped away from me, obviously trying to get my attention away from her nest. I stepped over to the gravel median and after some searching, found a cluster of four spotted eggs that were almost perfectly camouflaged in the rocks surrounding them. The mom was getting really pissed at me, yelling the bird equivalent of "I'm over here! Get away from there and come chase me, you dimwit!" I wanted to both applaud and scold her. It was a perfect piece of hiding, as I had to look really hard to find the eggs, but her placement of the nest in the median closest to the building meant that she would be getting bothered the maximum number of times a day. I was a little heartened when I came in this morning to find that someone had surrounded the nest with several orange utility marker flags. Here's hoping the eggs and their mom (from a little bit of research, it looks like she's a Killdeer) make it.
I've officially been given a new project at work, and I would almost be excited to do it, except that we got the crappy DBA for our support guy, and he's going to be so slow in filling any request. He's already a couple of hours overdue for making some simple table changes, which is delaying my construction of the data load, which is delaying making the actual screens, and so on. Nyargh.
I did get quite the unintended compliment yesterday, though, when the good DBA, who was reviewing some SQL changes I had made, questioned a complicated SELECT structure I had built. I wound up being right, and he learned something and was gracious about it. Go me! It's so refreshing to both be right and not have someone take offense at it. Stupid human (and around here, usually male) egos.
I've had a knot in my back for the past several days, right at what I call the crucifixion point - where the line between the shoulder blades crosses the spine. What I wouldn't give for a long massage...
Tomorrow is the husband's birthday, and I found a brilliant gift for him. Now I'm battling the "I want to give it to him NOW!" instant gratification feelings. (Must Wait!)
TGTF, for birthdays and BSG.
