About four miles from my house is the subway terminal. Across the street from my office building is the light rail station. I’d long thought about doing the socially and environmentally responsible thing — take the subway into downtown, and pick up the light rail back out of downtown to the office. I’ve had theContinue reading “On Getting to Work”
Category Archives: Work
On Writing Word Macros
Sometimes my Microsoft Word macro coding skills surprise even myself. Once a month, every month, I create about two dozen files. Word documents, Excel spreadsheets — you name it, I’m creating it. Fortunately, nothing in Powerpoint, because Powerpoint es el Diablo. Wait. Why am I writing en espanol? No habla espanol, por favor. This isContinue reading “On Writing Word Macros”
On Spreadsheet Fun
At work yesterday I started working on a large-ish spreadsheet project. It’s for an annual catalog. In one department, there’s four thousand lines of items to be arranged. Headers inserted. Item names cleaned up. Four thousand lines. It’s not tedious. Maybe a little mind-numbing at times. It’s mostly in order. That’s the worst kind ofContinue reading “On Spreadsheet Fun”
On Organizing Templates
Sometimes I’m stupid. Sometimes I make myself feel stupid. Today was one of those days. Over the years I’ve collected a fair number of custom templates for Microsoft Word. I have a screenplay template, for instance. I’ve created a few specialized letter templates. I have some templates I’d put together for EB Games. And I’veContinue reading “On Organizing Templates”
On Frequent Mis-Types
I tend to mistype the same words in the same way. Manga, for example. I generally type “mange.” As in, “Anime and mange are popular Japanese art styles.” Or for LiveJournal? I usually type “LiverJournal.” Liver Journal. Umm, yeah. Fingers go so fast! I do like mange, though. Put it down, because it’s rabid. 😆
On Weekend Plans
I’ll be at the Baltimore Comic-Con this weekend. Work was offering free passes, so how could I resist? 🙂 I’ve never been to a comic convention before, so this will be a new experience. Two things strike me as odd. First, programming seems really light. And second, it’s over at six?!? Sorry, I’m used toContinue reading “On Weekend Plans”
On Being a Real Boy
Like Pinocchio, I’m a real boy! Today, just a few moments ago, I received my name plate at work. Now, my cubicle states proudly that I am… Allyn Gibson 🙂 And it’s not in Times New Roman! No Times New Roman! Now, back to writing the special Chrismahanukwanzakah catalog…
On the Inevitable
I should have known things wouldn’t be this easy. The Collectibles section had come through. Lots of products. Interesting products, like a whole line of things based on A Christmas Story — a film I’ve never, ever seen. The Nightmare Before Christmas, the bane of existence? Nary an item in sight. Oh, there were someContinue reading “On the Inevitable”
On New Levels of Fannishness
I had to write up a product description for something Doctor Who-ish — Creation is doing some Who shotglasses with the TARDIS and the series logo. I needed something catchy. Something the Doctor would drink. It came to me. I typed it up, giggling all the way. Something along the lines of “If you’re goingContinue reading “On New Levels of Fannishness”
On Engrish
Reading Engrish makes my head hurt. Writing product descriptions for hentai video game strategy guides weirds me out. Beyond that, my day was mostly good.