I’ll never play the violin again…

After lunch I went to go back up to my floor at work. There was a huge crowd in the foyer waiting for the lifts. Every now and then the lifts stuff up and the call button doesn’t work. So the only way to get a lift is to wait for someone to come down to the ground floor.

Actually, this can be kind of confusing. I’m in no hurry to get back to work, but there is something incredibly annoying about standing there watch 4 out of the 5 lifts bounce between to 20^th and 24^th floor. The 5^th one, of course, is out of order…

Fortunately when one lift comes the others follow it in a group. So 2 lifts arrived in foyer and get packed with my fellow semi-comatosed building dwellers, but I could see a third one was on it’s way…

Anyway, the lifts aren’t very patient and the doors close pretty quickly. It’s a common sight to see people to lunge forward as soon as a lift empties out so you can be sure the doors don’t close, cause often when they close they move on instantly and there is no way to stop them cause as I said, the call button doesn’t work.

So it was a little frustrating when the lift arrived and the door opened the current occupants decided to pause and consider their horoscopes before exiting. Then a woman who had positioned herself right in front of the lift, decided what ever she was texting (probably ‘OMG, you won’t believe what my horoscope is telling me today’… With a LOL thrown in for good measure) was worth finishing before she got into the lift. So I quick threw out my arm to keep the doors open, just in time to hit the tip of my finger on one of the doors that had decided everyone had enough of an opportunity to enter and it was time to be on it’s way.

The door managed to bend my finger back, bend the fingernail back further, split the finger nail (only a couple of millimeters) before grudgingly opening again. I spent the whole lift trip nursing my finger, staring daggers at the stupid phone woman and wondering if I could be fired for expressing my opinion, loudly, at what a complete moron she is.

Moral of the story. People are to dumb to be trusted with lifts, phones or horoscopes.

PS. I’ve been incredibly busy at the moment. So I’m not sure how frequent posting will be. But I’ve been sent another picture from my mother, so I’ll try to put that up soon.

PPS. But really guys, I mean I stop posting for a while, quite a while I’ll admit. So you tell me, why is it when I’m not posting I seem to get more visits to this site!!! Are you all trying to tell me something?

 

So, apparently it’s genetic!

I got a couple of texts from my mother the other day. She was at a conference in Sydney. Something to do with the IT system where she works.

I thought she sounded very bored.

The next day I got another text, she wanted to show me the notes she had taken. The page on the left being day one, the right being day two.

The similarities in focus and dedication to workplace learning are frightening.

(Click  to embiggen)

PS… ok. Click the left on to embiggen. The right doesn’t want to. I tried posting all this via my iPhone an it’s not really doing it for me.

 

I’m not late, I’m just being silent for a moment…

Buy that?

No, I wouldn’t either.

Anyway, here is the picture. The explanation follows soon after…

Now you might be thinking “How the did you get that from ‘And then there followed a moments silence?’”

It’s a fair question. It’s a good question.

The answer is “Well, you see, I totally buggered it up…”

So allowing for that one small thing, it works perfectly.

See, after all my notes from training that I shared with you (see previous 5 posts, I can’t be bothered linking to them all) I was actually enjoying the random pattern phase I was going through. Although I realised that I always worked the same way, which is to divide up a bit of the spare page and if possible fill up not only all the available space, but the whole page.

I was trying to work out if there was a way I could ad more movement and fluidity to the style. I figure I try it for this Monday Project, the shape, with it’s patterns and movement would be noise, and I wanted it to get thinner and circling a white space that represents the silence.

Oh, you’ve noticed the lack of ‘circles of white space representing silence’?

That a big part of where I went wrong. I’ve been putting off posting it, because I was trying to work out if I could fix it. I haven’t yet and am now willing to admit defeat!

Next time, Monday Project. Next time.

….

P.S. OK, time after next, Monday Project. Time after next.

 

Training day, revisited

So I had to do 2 and a half more days of training. But this time at least, it was relevant to what I actually do…

Sort of.

Kinda…

In theroy!

Anyway, I did actually have to take notes this time around, so here is just a selection of parts of my note book…

 

Training. Day 4.

Yeap…

 

Training. Day three.

Todays notes aren’t very good… I’m worried I’m going to be doodled out before the end of the week!

PS. I worked out my scanner enough to turn off the high contrast it was set to. I’m happy about that!

PPS. Yay!

PPPS. I really need to go to bed…

 

Training. Day Two.

It’s not getting any better….

 

Training. Day One.

The sum total of what I did today;

It’s gonna be a long week.

PS. I’m going to write about what a great time I had on Saturday, but only if I survive through to next week…

PPS. Don’t ask me what that is in the top right corner. I don’t know.

I really, really don’t know…

 

I may, or may not, break the universe….

Ok, so I’ve had an unintentional break from blogging.

If it wasn’t for two things, I’d tell you what I’ve been doing. Those reasons are;

1.    I haven’t done anything that interesting
2.    I’m more focused on next week.

Basically, the company for which I work is having a major software upgrade and I have to do some training for it. The problem is next week, I have to do a 5 day ‘generic’ training session for my department, which covers all the different roles in my department.

The problem is, as I’ve mentioned before, I work in a support role for my department, and actually all the work I do is the same as a completely different department.

So I’ve got to do training for something that is completely irrelevant and I will never use it. I tried to get out of it, but management has decided that it would be good if everyone know what everyone else does. Oh, did I mention that in this training, the work that I do isn’t mentioned once? So I can only believe other people knowing what I do would be ‘bad.’ [~Actually, I’m not entirely unsympathetic to that viewpoint.]

Even better, the following week I have the training for, y’know, the job I actually do. It’s two days shorter than this generic irrelevant one.

I have grave fears that I will actually be bored to death.

Today I’ve been telling anyone that’s asked me for help that I’ll only provide it if they build me a time machine so I can skip next week. Although I’m getting discouraged by the lack of progress.

Btw, I’ve been told if I miss even just half a day, I have to repeat the whole 5 days again. So the plan is to use the time machine to travel travel past next week to turn up in a time period after I’ve died from extreme exposure to boredom and continue my life.

I don’t know if that is going to create one of those paradoxes that will destroy the universe, but I’m willing to risk it.

P.S. On an unrelated note; Safety in Art is on tomorrow. I’m gonna be there as I’d advise all creative types to be. The Monday Project is going to be running a theme so I’ll probably be drawing away in a corner somewhere.

Go to it. It will be a great way to spend a Saturday before I break the universe.

 

A box of sunshine

OK, I know I’ve been slack and/or quiet. I don’t have a real reason, but that normally wouldn’t keep me from babbling on for three paragraphs to try to convince you otherwise.

However, the post is about my Monday Project submission.

Normally, I’d say “here is the picture, read after for the explanation’ but since I took this months theme rather literally it doesn’t really seem to need a lot of explanation.

Plus, y’know. I’m drunk…

So here is this pic. I’m hoping to do more posts this later this week…. So don’t say I haven’t warn you!