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Because I will probably be in Libertyville at seven thirty in the morning working on Ikea-bana (the art of furniture arrangement), I won't be able to go to shaleari's D20 modern game. This makes me sad.

However, since I'll be home, Andrea and I just decided that we're going to go see Across the Universe. I'm very excited about this.

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Surprise! You're going to be answering email and logging tickets for the other four offices that we still haven't integrated computer systems with starting right now! Have a nice day!

I'm now up to 65 tickets in my queue. I have one that was logged by an internal person on behalf of an external client. Not only do I have no idea how to fix the system in questions, but we're not supposed to talk to external people. We have one person who talks to external clients just for a very few systems, and she's out of the office 'till next week.

I have three new people who are beginning work next Monday I need to build comptuers for.

I have terminations sitting in my queue from five months back because no one will talk to me about where these people's hardware is.

I've been too busy to ship that tablet PC I sold and I have a dispute open on it.

Shit.

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As I noted, I can't make the D20 (I keep wanting to write D&D, but it's not) game on Friday because we're moving furniture on Saturday morning.

We were discussing this today and had briefly decided to reschedule for a week out from Saturday. However, shortly after making the descision, we found out that we have a client touring our data center on Friday. Because our datacenter is accessed through the room that the help desk staff is in, they'll be coming through our room. Therefore, we have to get things cleaned up before then.

Ours is not a pristine room; it's a working environment where we have stacks of laptops on shelves, boxes in front of desks stacked eight feet tall, and random desktops, monitors, papers, and who knows what else lying around. Yes, we atually work here.

Apparently our visiting VIPs are not familiar with that concept 'cause our VP wants our room looking, and I quote, "as good as possible" for the inspection. This was passed down to us today by our manager, who strongly suggested we do the furniture rearrangement this weekend so we can use next week to get ready for the visit.

Now, considering that next week our manager will be off on vacation, our Chicago tech will be int the same state, and our team lead will spend three days in Chicago to make up for that tech not being there, we're going to have to get the room in order while down two people and still keep up with our daily work flow.

I know my morale is high.

posicat and tybis are coming by for food and miscellaneous activities tonight. That should be fun.

And I finally got that tablet shipped today!