Good morning!

It really is, too. Despite getting to bed late last night (after dealing - successfully, yay! - with the database), I'm awake. We'll see how long it lasts. I have the new Suzanne Vega CD with me, and yes, it's on infinite repeat. I have a bagel waiting for me for later, I have stuff to do that I can do.

Unfortunately I have a conference call at 10 am, but nothing is perfect. Besides. It'll make a nice break in my day. You can't really read or code during those - the information you need is scattered through them, not clumped in one 10-minute section. But I can doodle, or daydream as long as it's not too intense, or just sit there and veg.

If there weren't coworkers from my office scheduled on the call, I could eat the bagel, but that would be sort of rude as they are. Besides, someone would inevitably ask a question I had to address just after I took a bite, right?

Various work stuff.

I survived the conference call. Most of it wasn't applicable to me, but I managed to get out of another conference call this afternoon. (Unfortunately, on the basis that it would have overlapped with the one I already have...they're tapping my boss for the new one, lucky him.) These things can so easily sap your will.

Questions you're afraid to ask, but do anyway: Why is there a big garbage bag in our refrigerator in the break room?

(Update, the next day: because someone was taking stuffed peppers to a party that evening. I really don't want to know why they used a garbage bag to cover them, but at least it was only in the refrigerator for a day.)

I have my CD, hot cider from the deli to go with my bagel, and almost three hours to get work done before the next meeting.

It's not too bad, after all.

Squash a bug for charity?

I'm trying to decide if this is really cool, or really desperate. My company is donating $25 for the victims of the terrorist attacks, for each bug which is fixed and closed by an employee putting in outside-hours work (that is, evening or weekend work which does not impact revenue-generating activities)....

Methinks the bug list is painful to them....

Dogs. Offices.

I am having leftover turkey and mashed potatoes and corn from yesterday's deli special for a midafternoon snack.

And it is mine, do you hear me? Oh, good.

The dog's in today, and he's wandering the halls leashless while his owner (I almost typed "boss" - ack!) stands and chats at the front desk. He followed one of my employees into his office to beg for his soup, and had to be chased out into the hallway and the door shut. I managed to take the hint and not let him get into my office when I made my food, and my door is shut.

He nosed it a couple of times and then he just stood in the hallway staring at our two closed doors until just as I was typing this sentence, when his owner came and pulled him away.

edited, 5 minutes later: his owner apparently let him go...he came back. owner came, retrieved, dragged off. He's back again, standing in the hallway and sniffing at our doors. Argh!