First of all, I wasn’t sure how I wanted to spell Holy Moley, so I Googled it. The site I used my spelling from was
http://en.wiktionary.org. This concerns me. I understand Wikipdia. There is a lot of stuff in this world and standard encyclopedia made by one group of people simply can’t come close to covering everything. People out there know stuff, and many times it is useful. Other times, it is not. Some people can get on there and make things up or simply be wrong. Because of this, you need to be careful. This is all understandable, but I don’t know about a dictionary version. I trust that one group of people, say Webster’s can put together a book of definitions and catch just about everything that should be in there. There are other slang dictionaries and such, again understandable, but could be put together by one group of people. I don’t want everyday common people to be able to make up words and change the definitions of words. Not cool! I’m thinking about adding vertichee, it is just a made up word that I think should be in the dictionary. Most of you may not know what that word means, but the few of you that do should hopefully be laughing.
So…. I haven’t bloged in nearly a third of my son’s lifetime…. That’s quite a while. I’ve wanted to, but other things just kept coming up. A number of things at home with being parents and such, but mainly, work has been very hectic. Lots of large, important projects with challenging deadlines. I’ve been working through some lunches and working late most days. I’m not complaining. I like being really busy. The days have gone by very fast. I got a lot of stuff wrapped up at the end of last week and this week, and my white board is finally close to clear. All of this hard work has paid off though. 2 weeks ago the CFO was walking around and decided that I should have an office. Awesome! I didn’t know if he was serious for a while until later he was talking with the HR director, then stopped by and told me to move my stuff. So now I am in an office. I have a door, a fairly large U shaped desk, chairs for others to sit in, a filing cabinet, and windows that go from floor to ceiling that run the entire width of my office. It is so nice to be able to look out the window and have my office filled with natural light. I have my basketball hoop up and even a dock for my Zune with speakers wired under my desk to be able to listen to music all day. It is absolutely great.
What has been interesting is the people that realize I now have an office and stopping by to say hi. Some of them are happy for me, and some are just jealous, and possibly even a bit angered. I’ve gotten everything from “look at you” to how did you get an office?” I just told them that I sucked up to the right people, which in part is true. I do confess that I feel a little bad. I am certainly young and early in my career to have an office. There are also others at work that work very very hard and probably deserve an office, but our office is split up into different departments and therefore has different space availability. I work for a small department and answer directly to the top officers of the company. There is one person who has always been very friendly to me who hasn’t said a word to me (other than responding to a work related question) since I moved. Oh well, I’m living it up in here for now. I’ll try to post some pictures sometime soon.
Thanks for reading.
