Working

Three weeks into work and I'm loving it, and am very frustrated with it. I've spent 2 weeks trying to re-install all the programs that were on the old hard-drive onto the new hard-drive. Yes, I got to replace a hard-drive my first week at work. I would rate my computer knowledge about a 5 on a scale of 1 to 10, and as such, I am the most computer savvy in the office (kind of scary, isn't it?). So I've been dubbed, by default, our IT specialist. Huh? I didn't have email for over a week on the new hard drive, so I had to go to another computer to look up email. My boss expects email to be checked frequently as that is one way she communicates with us. I still haven't figured her out. Our office is comprised of 3 rooms plus a storage room and 1/2 bath. The total square footage may be 450 sq ft. It's small. So I'm not sure why she has to email me to give me information. I was wearing a step counter, and haven't been able to get over 700 steps at work (and that's even going outside at lunch!). It's about 10 steps to the bath and not even that from my desk to any other desk in the office. It's actually been fun having to use problem solving skills at work, however, I'm not sure my boss gets how much time it takes to work some of these kinks out. If the help desk tells me to turn off and unplug my computer and then wait 1 minute before plugging back in and starting up again, that's a lot of time. And sometimes, it requires doing that more than once before a problem is solved. I don't get the feeling that she has a good sense of time...how much time any one activity takes and so I get the feeling she is disappointed when work isn't completed on her time schedule. I've still got one more program to get loaded onto the hard-drive and then we'll be set (hopefully). Overall, I'm enjoying work and working only 6 hours is gravy!

The Imp started school and is miraculously in the homeroom she wanted to be in. At a Catholic K-8 school, much time is spent in homeroom: 15 minutes each morning and afternoon and a 1/2 hour before lunch for AR (accelerated reading) time. It is also the class you go to whenever the schedule is different and there's "extra" time at the beginning or end of the day. She is excited to be in 8th grade (big kid on campus) and is looking forward to high school where there will be a bigger pond to swim in. The Singer starts back tomorrow. So we haven't really gotten our "school year" rhythm down.

We had a terrible thunderstorm last night. The news said there were more the 1200 lightning strikes in 10 minutes. I believe it. It was the most intense storm we've had this year. Our pool filled up to the rim again, and we had to drain it and I hate doing that...it just feels wasteful. Our back yard is a swamp. But believe me, I am not complaining. It's wonderful to get so much rain. We're still under average for the year, so let it rain. My gardens are being invaded by weeds which grow so fast you can almost see them growing, especially with this much rain interspersed with heat and sunshine.