jumpy jumpy vitamins

OK. Here goes. This coming weekend is the Gateway Men’s Chorus holiday show, which we’re doing with an interim director who’s rather good but who is probably feeling a bit overwhelmed by some of the poor habits that were tolerated by prior directors. (for example, I don’t know half the material and the show opens [...]

The construction workers redoing the lab across the hall from my office sort of started an acetylene fire this morning. I heard it happen as I was washing my hands in the bathroom: first there was a loud clang (tank falling over), then there was a loud whoosh (ignition), then there were about four or [...]

I’ve been at the new job all of three weeks now. Today, the boss left for two weeks in France, so I have the place to myself (mostly). I also now have all the problems to myself, though we spent most of yesterday afternoon frantically covering just about everything we hadn’t already discussed. Construction on [...]

So, the first week at the new job… the term ‘whirlwind’ comes to mind. I’m picking up the physical layout pretty well — where all the labs are, where all the computers and printers are within those labs, where the buildings and staircases and elevators are, etc. The network infrastructure is a little more complex, [...]

All in all, today was a good day. Yes, I’m tired, but it’s a good sort of exhaustion — the kind you can only get by running back and forth completing things and fixing things and installing things et al. I did receive two bits of bad news today, though: Because the new job’s health [...]