Seems like as good a time to update this as any, since I’m once again sitting a work doing absolutely nothing while waiting for an upgrade to commence. For some unknown reason, I was informed that I had to get here 6 hours early for today’s upgrade – scheduled to begin at 11:00 tonight and to run for 4 hours or so (and once again, I’ll have my own little 5-minute part to play).
Seriously. 6 freaking hours early. And people wonder why I despise my job.
Theoretically, my boss and I will be chatting on Monday about another job opening that I spotted yesterday. It’s the second of the two potential jobs that I mentioned a few posts back – the one that is basically systems administration, and the one that I really really want. I know that I’m qualified. The guy posting the job knows that I’m qualified. My boss knows that I’m qualified. The only question is whether or not my boss will once again block me from moving to another job, as he did last month (a move that – he knows – severely pissed me off). When I mentioned this new job posting to him yesterday and requested that we talk about it, I basically told him that I’m at the breaking point and he’s going to lose me one way or another – either because I start working for someone else and supporting his team or because I start looking for a job with another corporation. May 10th is coming up, after all….
Last weekend was the North American brass band championships in Cincinnati, and the contest, by and large, went pretty well. There were the regular complaints about the venue, and there were the regular complaints about the judging (I kind of agree with those), but we had 23 bands and a couple hundred soloists show up and stayed pretty close to our schedule. I got a serious work-out over the two days of competing by running up and down 12 flights of stairs to take as many pictures as possible. My little pedometer told me that I cleared 5 miles each day and around 95 stories. My feet were, not surprisingly, pretty tired by Sunday. Got to spend some time with Amy, however. That was nice, as was her cornet solo (“I’d Rather Have Jesus”). She also got picked up as a ringer by the band that ended up winning the First Section, and the band that hired her to work with its cornet section a couple of weeks ago ended up taking 1st in the Championship Section – which *nobody* saw coming – so I’d have to say that she acquitted herself pretty well on the weekend.
Yard work began in earnest today with the mowing of the back yard. A few weeks ago, I trimmed the holly in the back yard and pruned a couple of trees that were trying to grow through the side of my house, but I’m not counting that work. The front yard is scheduled for tomorrow if the weather cooperates (and it looks like it will be another gorgeous day). I also need to trim the front hedges pretty drastically. I hate doing that because they look completely dead for the first month after I cut them back, but they’re encroaching on my sidewalk, so…..
Not much else to talk about. Every day is sort of smashing into the next recently. Get up, go to work, go home, watch some television, go to bed early. Jenny and I nearly went to a minor league hockey game last night, but agreed – at around lunch time – that we were both too tired to do it. We could possibly reschedule that for tomorrow. It depends on how much sleep I can get tonight and how the lawn work goes tomorrow.
Hope everybody else is having a good spring.
TWD