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Mar. 5th, 2003 09:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
electriclandWhoa. Long day. Training session went very well, the clients are charming (and severely delayed by the snowstorm, so I managed to get work done... although not so much that I am not still here, 12 hours later).
Delivered my Module 1 beta (incomplete because client has been dragging feet on the tech specs for the Perl script... and I haven't had time to chase them properly because of the other 6 things on my plate... I hate this project, and I hate not having time to do anything right). It is not as nice as it could be, but it's nice enough for now, dammit. It's not like they care about the look of the damn thing ANYWAY.
Anyone else out there ever use Ektron's eWebEditPro? We are finding it to be a tool of the very devil. You enter code, it changes it. You have to check everything in Netscape because everything looks completely different (OK, that's just mean-spirited of me, we'd have to do that anyway, but still). On the other hand I did finally figure out how to create a form, should we need one.
Anyway, enough about work. I have to go home soon to pack for Philadelphia, anyway (oops... that's work). I'm getting very sick of going long distances to be ornamental in meetings. The plus side of Philadelphia is that because it's just overnight, it was actually cheaper to get two return tickets on different carriers, so I get a second trip to Philadelphia two weeks from now. I am using it to take a train to Baltimore and visit Heidi and Rock. I figure I deserve it.
Weekend was great. I have fallen severely down on the exercising (although my hotel, apparently, has a 24-hour gym... hmmm...). However, bought a fine backpack at MEC with P's help. Also a marble mortar and pestle. Getting everything home on the train about killed me, but didn't (all thanks to the backpack, actually, and a nice young man who hauled me and it upright when we threatened to overbalance -- naturally I neglected to follow up).
Observe that I am not at the pool tournament. Unfortunate, but I think in my present state beer's the last thing I need. Anyway 2 for 1 is over (hm, 2 mutually exclusive concepts there...).
Am wondering if I ought to be giving stuff up for Lent, and am inclined to think not. Well, other than spending money, which I'm trying to give up anyway. How come I get all these religious impulses when I'm an official heathen unbeliever? Probably early training -- you can't go to chapel every weekday for 5 years without something rubbing off on you, I s'pose. That and all my friends seem to be giving things up, and I want to join the privation party. (I give![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
crankygrrl a week and a half on the coffee abstention, longer if she's allowed tea.)
My building has been sold, and the new landlords expect me to give them a 26.3% rent increase starting July 1st. This would be hysterical if all the boring mechanisms of seeing the tenants' rights guy, finding out my rights, rejecting the proposed increase (the Regie, incidentally, suggests a maximum of 1.6% this year if major renovations haven't been done, which they haven't), going before a tribunal etc. didn't promise to be such a BLOODY PAIN. But at least we the outraged tenants are all in this together.
Delivered my Module 1 beta (incomplete because client has been dragging feet on the tech specs for the Perl script... and I haven't had time to chase them properly because of the other 6 things on my plate... I hate this project, and I hate not having time to do anything right). It is not as nice as it could be, but it's nice enough for now, dammit. It's not like they care about the look of the damn thing ANYWAY.
Anyone else out there ever use Ektron's eWebEditPro? We are finding it to be a tool of the very devil. You enter code, it changes it. You have to check everything in Netscape because everything looks completely different (OK, that's just mean-spirited of me, we'd have to do that anyway, but still). On the other hand I did finally figure out how to create a form, should we need one.
Anyway, enough about work. I have to go home soon to pack for Philadelphia, anyway (oops... that's work). I'm getting very sick of going long distances to be ornamental in meetings. The plus side of Philadelphia is that because it's just overnight, it was actually cheaper to get two return tickets on different carriers, so I get a second trip to Philadelphia two weeks from now. I am using it to take a train to Baltimore and visit Heidi and Rock. I figure I deserve it.
Weekend was great. I have fallen severely down on the exercising (although my hotel, apparently, has a 24-hour gym... hmmm...). However, bought a fine backpack at MEC with P's help. Also a marble mortar and pestle. Getting everything home on the train about killed me, but didn't (all thanks to the backpack, actually, and a nice young man who hauled me and it upright when we threatened to overbalance -- naturally I neglected to follow up).
Observe that I am not at the pool tournament. Unfortunate, but I think in my present state beer's the last thing I need. Anyway 2 for 1 is over (hm, 2 mutually exclusive concepts there...).
Am wondering if I ought to be giving stuff up for Lent, and am inclined to think not. Well, other than spending money, which I'm trying to give up anyway. How come I get all these religious impulses when I'm an official heathen unbeliever? Probably early training -- you can't go to chapel every weekday for 5 years without something rubbing off on you, I s'pose. That and all my friends seem to be giving things up, and I want to join the privation party. (I give
crankygrrl a week and a half on the coffee abstention, longer if she's allowed tea.)My building has been sold, and the new landlords expect me to give them a 26.3% rent increase starting July 1st. This would be hysterical if all the boring mechanisms of seeing the tenants' rights guy, finding out my rights, rejecting the proposed increase (the Regie, incidentally, suggests a maximum of 1.6% this year if major renovations haven't been done, which they haven't), going before a tribunal etc. didn't promise to be such a BLOODY PAIN. But at least we the outraged tenants are all in this together.
