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Jesus Christ, my morning at work today! Sheesh! I had no time whatsoever to work on a draft of this post until now, because a) my weekly 1:1 meeting with Gabby lasted 45 rather than the usual 30 minutes; then b) I had to spend 53 minutes fixing a mistake I made, where I use an application to enter the skus for manufactur coupons on a two-month cycle, and it was only discovered this morning that I had mistakenly entered the July/August coupons for May/June. So I just had to go through the process, as quickly as I could, again.
It took me nearly an hour. It would have taken me probably closer to barely more than half an hour, except that the stupid fucking application isn't always cooperative. I had finished entering
all of this period's
ninety-three coupon skus, and the "Save" button was grayed out and wouldn't work! I had no choice but to close out of the application. When I went in, none of the skus I entered were there. I had to go through and enter them
all a second time. I need to remember that no matter what, I need to click that fucking "Save" button regularly through the process. Maybe it times out somehow if left unattended for 45 minutes or something, I don't know. But that was pretty fucking annoying.
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Also, some slight disappointments regarding the trip to Fox Island this weekend. One of Gabriel's friends texted the group chat yesterday that he may have to limit his visit to a day trip or maybe just one night. Another texted this morning that he won't make it at all. In both cases it was related to health issues with their partner's family—in one case a parent, in the other a grandparent, in both cases they're in the hospital for different reasons, resulting in unplanned trips out of town.
If neither of these friends make it, it just occurred to me, the trip will just be Gabriel and his brother and me. But that's okay too. They're all good company regardless of the configuration. It's a bummer of unfortunate timing, but I still fully plan and expect to have a nice and relaxing weekend in the woods on a an island. I'm still really looking forward to it.
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I guess
now I can mention last night's Action Movie Night at the Braeburn Condos community theater. It was Ben's pick. I always look at the chooser's history on the shared doc we all have access to, and Ben has chosen some that were great (his last choice was
Airplane!, which had been on my list for eventual choice) and some not so great. This week's choice fell squarely into the latter category:
RoboCop, the 2014 remake, which I had never bothered to see because the reviews were so bad. And, justifiably so: I found the movie so dull and lifeless I gave it one and a half stars on Letterboxd. Even I would say that's shockingly low, for me.
(This, of course, would be why I rarely rate movies so low: if I already know they're crap, I don't see them at all. In this case, I was a captive audience.)
Tom actually fell asleep. I kind of wished I could have slept through the whole thing.
Anyway, who all was there, then? Tony, Jake, Ryan, Chris B, Derek, Andrew, Shobhit, and myself. I think that was everyone. Eight sounds about right.
Shobhit made pasta. I was very tasty. I plan to make pasta for dinner one night this weekend. I vaccilated between bringing one or two one-pound bags of dry pasta, but given recent developments, just one will clearly be plenty.
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Getting back to work news, the office has been having one department take a turn each Friday for the Store Dev team to saw off a foot of length from our sit-stand desks, and Merchandising is tomorrow. Only 16 of the desks will be cut, but mine will be one of them. I saw them doing finance last week, and it will be a bit loud. And I will have to find some other desk to sit at while my desk is cut, in the morning, before I take the afternoon off to leave for Fox Island.
I probably just should have taken the day off. But, taking Wednesday next week through Wednesday the following week off, I didn't want to take a full PTO day this close to that. I mean, whatever. I'll figure it out.
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[posted 12:20pm]
