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"She did last week and so didn't all of my other employees. None of them are listed now."

What the hell?

"It was on the top of the pile; I know you have it! :)"

All the cutesy smiley-faces in the world will not change the fact that two people have looked for your document and cannot find it. I do not have your document and you need to get it to me so I can set up your contractor. I'd give you a frowny-face to let you know how much this concerns me, but, really, it doesn't.

"Have you had time to work on the Uniformated User Creation Doc?"

Yes. And if you hadn't configured a rule in your Outlook client to filter all of my mail into a folder you never look at ('But I get too many automated announcements from you when you transfer tickets to me in the tracking system!') you would have known that a month ago. Yes; a month ago. When I emailed you the first time to tell you that.

"I resent the On Boarding form."

Me too dear. Me too. Oh; never mind.

"I’ll tell you what, let’s target Thursday (8:30 a.m.) as his start date. Please have his accounts set up and ideally his computer here by then."

I'll tell you what; you get me the forms that I am required by departmental policy, security restrictions, and federal law (Sarbanes-Oxley) to have before I can create those accounts, and then give me the department-mandated five-day period to get those accounts set up after recieving the completed forms, and then we can talk about a target date. Ok?

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And the best one. While the above are things that I wish I could have said, the below is a note from a person on the server team and then a response from our VP. This email chain went to our entire department and our manager, as well as the manager of the server group.

"This message didn't route properly, but the rest of mail flow seems fine."

"So I gotta ask, why not? I have a msg. from our CEO that didn’t get delivered to all the employees. What other email communications are not being delivered? What’s wrong with the routing all of a sudden that [company-wide] emails aren’t being delivered."

(no subject)

Hey. I have a question.

I'm feeling stressed out by lack of time these days. I think that I have too much planned out stuff in my life. That I need a little more free time.

So I'm curious. How much of your week, both week-days and weekends, are, typically, accounted for before they happen? And how early do you plan them out?

In my case, every Wednesday is dinner with my parents. Every Friday is the coffee meetup in Kenosha. Those are pre-planned events.

Tuesday I went out for food with a co-worker (decided on Monday and kind of felt obligated). Tonight we talked to polymorphism about dinner and stuff (Polymorphism, I need to talk to you about that. Can you email me with your number?). Things also keep coming up during the week that I do really want to do (invitations from megmoves or posicat to hang out, or going over to my parents' place to play Wii games or Rockband or something, or working on friends' and family members' computers maybe). It seems like I often only have an evening or two without commitments, and I usually spend those cleaning up, or stressing that I'm not cleaning up.

This weekend we have rileybear67 visisting, and on Sunday, I'm going to the train museum with my parents. Next weekend is booked too (trip with Moira on Saturday, and another with she and more people on Sunday), as is the weekend after that (going to Michigan with folks).

How busy are the rest of you folks? Do you plan out weekend days to yourself? Do you feel like you need to? Who feels like they have too many demands, specifically on their leisure time? I'm just curious about how my life compares with other people in that regard.

I guess I'm just feeling kind of stressed out. I actually have, more or less, since the Dells trip. I've had this tightness in my chest and some muscle spasms there, mainly since going on that raft ride with folks and dealing with other stuff that was entirely unexpected and kind of stressful. I'm thinking about staying home on Friday night and just having the house to myself. I haven't had enough solitude recently. Besides, that way I can be happy and bouncy when Moira and I get to see Rileybear!

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You know, I hope my post here isn't taken the wrong way by anybody. I want to see all of you I really, really do; believe me. I'm deeply grateful to have people in my life who actually like to see me and do things with me. It's just been a really long week (that started last Monday...) and I'm thinking about how to prioritize things.