I had volunteered to do a laundry run Thursday for one of the local PADS shelters; their regular person couldn’t make it and I got a call the night before. I didn’t have all the details on the pickup point, but I managed. Basically, I picked up bags of dirty laundry at lunch – easy, given where it was – and then dropped it off and picked up clean laundry sets at a nearby hospital after work. It was a long day, with lots of stuff going on at work, but the laundry thing was oddly relaxing. Since I can’t…
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Lot of things to get done next week. At least one major deadline got moved up on what I’m calling “the ‘Our World Is Changing’ project.” We recently went through a tech upgrade that, frankly, doesn’t benefit line agents much. In the interests of security, we’re now unable to download files or make changes to certain directories. Which is good. Unfortunately, our workhorse “programmable” key files now reside in the directory we can’t touch, meaning that whatever we had for programmables on the day tech services upgraded us is what we’re stuck with for keys, forever. Can’t update them permanently,…
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Yes, Santa can simultaneously ride his snowmobile AND motor around in his Yuletide power boat. He’s the ultimate multi-tasking guy, you know. Actually, this is pretty tame for the BHOI: I’ve blogged before about the many, many inflatable lawn blimps they’ve displayed over the years. One thing that I notice every time the inflatables come out in this area is how disturbing they look during the daytime. Most people around here don’t keep them inflated and illuminated in the daytime, so that leaves puddles of holiday-color fabric on the suburban lawns – they look oddly festive and corpse-like at the…