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To: Monkey Face; NicknamedBob

Good morning, FRiends! Last day of my parents’ visit, so I’ll be mostly out.

I hope you both have a good day!

1,081 posted on 07/09/2007 4:38:03 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("A dependence on mass immigration is always a structural weakness and should be understood as such.")

Sun tea should take about 30 minutes in those temps! LOL!

Evening, Sarajevo!

Great shot! I saw a sandstorm coming while I was on top of a small mountain. Since the thing was HUGH, I had to wait for it to mostly pass before trying to get down. It will certainly separate the men from the boys in a hurry!

1,082 posted on 07/09/2007 6:30:31 AM PDT by Monkey Face (It's always darkest just before it goes totally black. ~~ My Mother said it first)

This is a morning. I can tell, because it’s hard to get going. Hot cocoa is the order of the day. *sigh* I hope it works fast.

Monsoons are coming. :o[

1,083 posted on 07/09/2007 6:32:52 AM PDT by Monkey Face (It's always darkest just before it goes totally black. ~~ My Mother said it first)

Morning!

Safe journey to your folks!

1,084 posted on 07/09/2007 6:33:40 AM PDT by Monkey Face (It's always darkest just before it goes totally black. ~~ My Mother said it first)

1,085 posted on 07/09/2007 6:37:37 AM PDT by Monkey Face ("Equal opportunity" means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. ~~ L J Pete)

I'll take "or something."

Nice days are so blase.

1,086 posted on 07/09/2007 6:50:53 AM PDT by rottndog (HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA!!!!!!)

Nice days are so blase.

It depends on whether you have them or not!
I'm partial to sunshine, and lots of it!

1,087 posted on 07/09/2007 7:29:43 AM PDT by Monkey Face ("Equal opportunity" means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. ~~ L J Pete)

To: Aloysius88; Tax-chick; Monkey Face

I'm with T-C here. It's definitely morning. And I'm in the office after almost 2-1/2 weeks away. Aiieee.

And a heat wave coming, it'll be in the 90s mid-week. But there was mist this morning...

I have a ton of e-mail to wade through, and better get on it. Later...

1,088 posted on 07/09/2007 8:18:09 AM PDT by sionnsar (trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)

Ouch! Two and a half weeks of hookey? How spoiled are you?

The Frind must be really grinding after that sabbatical.

1,089 posted on 07/09/2007 8:26:49 AM PDT by Monkey Face ("Equal opportunity" means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. ~~ L J Pete)

1,090 posted on 07/09/2007 8:27:15 AM PDT by Monkey Face ("Equal opportunity" means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. ~~ L J Pete)

LOL. Very spoiled, though I was in the office one day each the past two weeks. I wanted to take today off too.

But it's been a madhouse sorting out the e-mails, and I am still not done.

1,091 posted on 07/09/2007 1:35:26 PM PDT by sionnsar (trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)

I hate when that happens! Which is why I made it a point to go to the library every day when my computer was down. I can’t handle all that traffic in one sitting!

It’s cooler today...only 107...but the humidity is up to 12%, so folks are really feeling the heat. I’ve been listening to them complain...like I’m the one to complain to, right? I told them to change it if they didn’t like it, and stop complaining! LOL!

1,092 posted on 07/09/2007 1:40:51 PM PDT by Monkey Face ("Equal opportunity" means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. ~~ L J Pete)

*SOB!*

I killed it! I’m a serial thread killer!

*whine*

1,093 posted on 07/09/2007 3:47:38 PM PDT by Monkey Face ("Equal opportunity" means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. ~~ L J Pete)

You didn’t!

I just got here late.

Sorry.

1,094 posted on 07/09/2007 4:32:37 PM PDT by fanfan ("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)

But it's been a madhouse sorting out the e-mails, and I am still not done.

Didn't those people need the answer to their questions a week ago?

I don't understand how modern business works, I guess.

1,095 posted on 07/09/2007 4:35:07 PM PDT by fanfan ("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)

You didn’t kill it. It’s still Undead.

1,096 posted on 07/09/2007 4:35:20 PM PDT by sionnsar (trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)

To: Monkey Face; fanfan; sionnsar

"I killed it! I’m a serial thread killer!"

Good thing the Undead Thread has never been serial about anything.

1,097 posted on 07/09/2007 4:56:16 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (My Bumper Sticker ==> "Hang on! My other cell phone is ringing.")

"But it's been a madhouse sorting out the e-mails, and I am still not done."
Didn't those people need the answer to their questions a week ago?
I don't understand how modern business works, I guess.

Well, my job is a really peculiar one in that regard. For a lot of the e-mail I am just the recipient of information or files to be read, filed away and/or forwarded. Sometimes they're questions or requests, but rarely are they urgently time-critical.

For example, in the day in the office after my meetings and before the drive to CA, I launched about 8 e-mail ballots to voting members of my committee who were not at the meeting. That was "drop and run", because they have two weeks to respond. A number of the e-mails today were their votes, which I had to register on a tracking form and deposit the e-mails in the appropriate folder for the ballot (and send a thank-you as a courtesy).

A few e-mails were progress reports or studies, to be read and possibly filed away. One of the latter I forwarded to a colleague (my future boss?).

Several were some "responses to public review comments" which I collected then forwarded to the aforementioned voting members in another e-mail ballot.

Some others were responses to an offered "thank you from the president" e-mail; I collected their requests, entered them on a form (and sent a courtesy notice that I'd done that), and next week sent that form to the society HQ.

One was a request last Thursday for me to upload the meeting documents to a server site -- whoops, normally that would have been done right after the meeting. That one might have been a little timely, but my predecessor set the standard for the chairman being so busy responses are sometimes slow.

In my workaday world I'm generally dealing with a lot of stuff like above, plus a number of concurrent e-mail conversations that do not need quick attention. The latter is what the phone is for, and one received e-mail quickly spun into two e-mail conversations and then three telephone and in-person (in-plant) discussions on related but different topics, the last of which I hope to conclude tomorrow, but one threatens to spiral into yet another discussion with different corporate players.

It's fun generally, but it can be stressful -- particularly when trying to track a whole bunch of balls in play simultaneously when deadlines are approaching.

But I also suddenly see really clearly why I am not writing software today. To do that you need long stretches of time without any interruptions or diversions in order to focus on one task.

1,098 posted on 07/09/2007 4:58:59 PM PDT by sionnsar (trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)

To: NicknamedBob

Good thing the Undead Thread has never been serial about anything.

Except our homes. Though we did have that one temporary diversion until the Admin Gods undeleted that month's home for us.

1,099 posted on 07/09/2007 5:00:37 PM PDT by sionnsar (trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)

1,100 posted on 07/09/2007 5:01:19 PM PDT by sionnsar (trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)

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