the mirror never lies
Aug. 24th, 2015 01:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_siobhanAfter three months of fuck-all happening, basement renos are suddenly moving very quickly. We made the penultimate trip to the storage locker yesterday, there is a dumpster booked for the weekend and the contractor is coming by on the Tuesday after that with his plumber and electrician. Actual work starts the day after Labour Day. The contractor says it will take him five weeks. That gives us a week of padding for delays and another week to paint. D moves in November 1.
Holy. Shit.
Axel is starting on dismantling the bathroom fixtures today. If anybody wants to come over and blow off a little steam with a sledgehammer on the weekend, that would be nice.
Work is still good but I am growing increasingly frustrated over the fact that it has been almost a month and none of my system access is working yet. There is only so much "training" I can handle before boredom starts to eat me alive. This is a chronic problem with every large company I have ever worked for. Tech support keep closing tickets and sending me chirpy "all done!" messages without actually fixing anything. I suspect this happens because they have front-line people who have instruction manuals that say things like, "If you get a request that looks something like X, flip this switch and close the ticket." So after the same not-working solution has been implented five times by five different people I call them up and yell at them until I get a second-tier person who listens to the part where I tell them their fixes aren't working.
I bought some Soylent last week, because I decided I am spending too much money buying lunch every day and making my own is something that is just never going to happen. (At least at this location I am eating lunch, even if I usually just get overwhelmed and buy a smoothie.) It's kinda weird tasting. Like drinking pancake batter. I might try throwing some juice or something into it just to see if I can't jazz it up a bit. And it is really filling. It's never going to be a regular meal, just a standby for when I can't cope with feeding myself, so hopefully I don't get too sick of it.
Another Monday halfway down.
Holy. Shit.
Axel is starting on dismantling the bathroom fixtures today. If anybody wants to come over and blow off a little steam with a sledgehammer on the weekend, that would be nice.
Work is still good but I am growing increasingly frustrated over the fact that it has been almost a month and none of my system access is working yet. There is only so much "training" I can handle before boredom starts to eat me alive. This is a chronic problem with every large company I have ever worked for. Tech support keep closing tickets and sending me chirpy "all done!" messages without actually fixing anything. I suspect this happens because they have front-line people who have instruction manuals that say things like, "If you get a request that looks something like X, flip this switch and close the ticket." So after the same not-working solution has been implented five times by five different people I call them up and yell at them until I get a second-tier person who listens to the part where I tell them their fixes aren't working.
I bought some Soylent last week, because I decided I am spending too much money buying lunch every day and making my own is something that is just never going to happen. (At least at this location I am eating lunch, even if I usually just get overwhelmed and buy a smoothie.) It's kinda weird tasting. Like drinking pancake batter. I might try throwing some juice or something into it just to see if I can't jazz it up a bit. And it is really filling. It's never going to be a regular meal, just a standby for when I can't cope with feeding myself, so hopefully I don't get too sick of it.
Another Monday halfway down.