Mirthless
Such a week.
I've already described a mirthless luncheon (A recursive link, for you recursion fans out there).
On Wednesday, it was announced that my entire office would be relocating to an industrial suburb of Albany. My commute will go from about 2.5 miles to 7.5 miles. It's still bikeable, but most of the extra distance is along a busy, potholed truck route lined with warehouses, and with that long of a ride, you have to think about a change of clothes. As for the bus, I would need to take two. As for driving, I would have to buy a car. No matter how you figure it, it's functionally equivalent to a 10-20% pay cut.
The building is an interesting example of adaptive reuse. It was built in 1929 as the regional Montgomery Ward warehouse. Probably because the building wasn't designed for human occupation, the art deco architecture manages to come off as more Third Reich than Miami Beach. It's always been Micaela's least favorite building in the area (of those buildings that even merit a critical review).
When the move was announced, the office broke out in cheers and applause. It's five miles closer to the suburbs where nearly all of them live, and probably will encourage many to move five miles farther out.
A few hours ago our tech support person and union vice-president was arrested for stealing her kids' PTA money. I don't know her well, but it fits in.
Oh, and all of our great snow is gone after a record-shattering week.
I've already described a mirthless luncheon (A recursive link, for you recursion fans out there).
On Wednesday, it was announced that my entire office would be relocating to an industrial suburb of Albany. My commute will go from about 2.5 miles to 7.5 miles. It's still bikeable, but most of the extra distance is along a busy, potholed truck route lined with warehouses, and with that long of a ride, you have to think about a change of clothes. As for the bus, I would need to take two. As for driving, I would have to buy a car. No matter how you figure it, it's functionally equivalent to a 10-20% pay cut.
The building is an interesting example of adaptive reuse. It was built in 1929 as the regional Montgomery Ward warehouse. Probably because the building wasn't designed for human occupation, the art deco architecture manages to come off as more Third Reich than Miami Beach. It's always been Micaela's least favorite building in the area (of those buildings that even merit a critical review).
When the move was announced, the office broke out in cheers and applause. It's five miles closer to the suburbs where nearly all of them live, and probably will encourage many to move five miles farther out.
A few hours ago our tech support person and union vice-president was arrested for stealing her kids' PTA money. I don't know her well, but it fits in.
Oh, and all of our great snow is gone after a record-shattering week.
Labels: adaptive reuse, crime, mirthlessness
posted by frank b. at
6:10 PM
23 Comments:
I don't know why this post ran outside the margins!
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that's horrible, i don't know what to say. that would really be shaking up my world if i were you. i'm a big creature of habit.
> I don't know why this
> post ran outside the margins!
It's the sheer force of your words!
Does she have kids in said school district? I've never met a person who stole from kids who sold candy! I can't even imagine that personality type.
Bernie, try googling "PTA treasurer" and "theft". There are hits galore, from all over the USA.
how about googling "pta treasurer" and "good person" and counting the hits? how come no one ever does that?
wow, not a lot (seven, compared to 243 for theft). frank, you exceed the margins on one of my computers, not the other. i don't know what's going on--i tried playing with posts per page, but it didn't change anything. i'm willing to give robert administrative powers, if he wants to investigate, but not for pranks.
I just checked the HTML - no admin powers needed.
Frank, your "Mirthless" post has hard line breaks coded into the html, while most posts don't. Your "Customer Loyalty" post doesn't, for example. Did you create the posts in different ways? Possibly you wrote the Mirthless post in a text editor and included line breaks in the document, which were carried over when you pasted it into the blog?
if this is your way of saying you don't need admin. powers for pranks either, i don't appreciate the threatening tone.
No, I would need admin powers for pranks. But I wouldn't use them for that.
yeah, I went into edit mode in blogger and the code for this post is a mess. I could fix it, I suppose.
Robert is correct - I started typing this post in a text editor. Maybe I'll try to fix it - it'll be a fun way to cap off the week!
in my experience, sometimes "fixing" things leads to new problems
I took that as a challenge. I believe it has been fixed.
And now that the shock wave has subsided, members of the urban minority have begun quietly whispering about car pooling.
Frank, while I totally think your week/situation is horrible, I'll have you know my new commute would make you weep. Not distance-wise, naturally.
All right, what is your new commute?
45 minutes to the entrance of the parking garage. Then, there is a line of cars, which, instead of just driving up to the top where there are spaces, they see someone walking to her car and they wait until she gets in her car, and leaves the space. Then the next person in line does the same thing. Sometimes this can take up to half an hour, and there is no way I can pass the cars to get around them to go up to the sixth floor and just park.
> they see someone walking to her car
> and they wait until she gets in her car
I hate that! There aren't that many things that make me boil with anger but that's one of them. Seriously.
I hate it recursively.
I don't hate it as much as PTA-thieves, though.
>> I don't hate it as much as PTA-thieves, though.
That's what I meant by recursively.
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