I have to spring into action to get a thing done today that a coworker just handed over to me, but Friday afternoon turns out not to be the time I'm mostly likely to spring into action...

I'm attempting to plow through the pile of stuff I have to do without thinking too hard about it, because a) I also have a bad case of the "don't wanna", b) I'm not sure if the drugs are working to turn this sinus migraine around, and c) thinking about it will only make me angry and I accidentally on purpose dressed in Hulk colors today.

I'm also pissed off because I ordered a bunch of diet food and it was supposed to come today--I was traveling Tues-Thurs, so I was OK with that (though I had to stretch the stuff I had left, a little, as some is not travel-friendly)...but then today when I looked, it suddenly says UPS had a late truck or something and now they don't know when it will be delivered! And I am leaving on Sunday, so that means all next week I'll be traveling without much stuff, which makes it really hard to stick to a diet! The point of this diet was it supplies most of your food, so I wouldn't be tempted to cheat! (Because for me, I'm in the airport, going "hmm, well, I could have this...or that is just a FEW more calories and so much more delicious...and maybe I should add this other thing too...")

Timelies all!

At the airport. Also, there is some sort of itchy thing on one of my toes(kind of like a bug bite, except I have no idea how I could have a bug bite on my toe in this weather) that is right under the seam of my sock. Ugh.

I'm irritated that it turns out that "immediate shipping" means that the company will immediately send the package to its "shipping partner" in California, where it will lounge around for four days before being given to USPS.

That's a crappy definition of "immediate", Ginger.

I made a mistake. It occurred to me that I understood how to do the individual steps that should lead to homemade mac and cheese (make a light roux, fold in cheese, etc.), as well as all the ingredients, including shredded cheese. So I made it, and it was both easy and delicious. This is knowledge I should not have.

That is knowledge I also should not have, Calli.

Let me clarify. I don't have it. But I may have it soon.

It is dangerous knowledge, Calli.

With our year end processing, corporate decided to change how we access historic data. I have been in query hell for the last two days but I finally found an UGLY solution to get the data I need.

I refuse to go through the UGLY process every week, so I now that I know where to grab what, I get to come up with a cleaner process that can be replicated by folks who do not have good query skills. Joy!!!

At one point in the process, I was utterly frustrated and sent a detailed message to my boss and my boss's boss explaining the situation, what I'd tried, where I was stuck and asked for help. My boss's boss's response? "I know the situation is in good hands with you working on it. Good luck." Ummm, thanks for having faith in me, but I'm about to set everything on fire, dude.

From the local Facebook sale group, with is sometimes more entertaining than you'd think.

For Sale: Printer. Broken. Couldn't tell you if its a paper jam or totally mangled.... Likely somewhere in between. In a moment of sickening, bourgeois excess we just up and bought a new one instead of figuring it out.

I probably just stepped in it in an online cancer group. In one post, I pointed out that gluten is only bad for people with a demonstrated intolerance and there's nothing inherently bad about GMO foods. I snapped after one woman said to stay away from soy sauce because it was "full of gluten." The ingredients in soy sauce are water, soybeans, salt and wheat, in that order. After fermentation, the wheat is undetectable in many soy sauces. Besides, I don't think anyone is going to sneak behind the barn and down a bottle of soy sauce.

Mmm, mac and cheese.

Ginger, just so you know, moving anything round California right now is super slow because port issues are creating trucking issues and it's all a big mess. So possibly there were four days of getting to the shipping partner, depending on how it was going. At least that appears to be the case based on all my shipments going to Colombia and Costa Rica that are stuck in our warehouse unable to get to port.

BUT my day and half of meetings is OVER and they were productive and enlightening so yay. And I am not going into the office for two hours. I will check my e-mail in case there's something that I REALLY need to do, but otherwise it's the weekend. And I got fed lunch, and it was only a little off my diet.

ION, my Box o' Meat is now being delivered to me by UPS (instead of being delivered to a brewery in the next county where I would pick it up) and that has eroded a significant amount of the warm fuzzies I was getting from having a Meat CSA. Also, "subscribing" is one month at a time, for one delivery a month, so, I dunno.