Work

Hmmmm, let me think….

3 Comments / Daily Dose, Day to Day, Pet Peeves, Work /

I was going to log off without blogging over here today. Nothing really caught my eye or lured me away from a very, very full day of work. Them’s the breaks and it’s not like I’m participating in NaBloPoMo or even if I was, it’s not November. So yea. I was going to blow off blogging. No big deal, I do it often. But then, 30 items away from closing my feedreader for the night – what do I see? The perfect topic for me to blog about.

Could Your Partner Do Your Job?

Perfect, right? So perfect. But damn. I don’t think I can actually blog it without ticking someone off. While some of you might think that I never worry about that, I do. There are a million things I don’t blog for that very reason. Since I can’t blog about whether or not my partner can do my job… how about a list of all of the things I can’t blog about? Or some of the things I can’t blog about.

1) My mother’s ability to tick off certain of my siblings.
2) My mother’s general inability to tick me off – til today when she suggested I was menopausal. (bitch.)
3) The hysterical thing a kid said last night, without prompting.
4) The really dumb thing Michelle said a couple of days ago.
5) The really dumb things Christopher says several times a week.
6) Speaking of Christopher, I’d love to blog a comparison of all of his g/f’s.
7) Jenn and her, ummm, life. (she’s blonde – brilliant but also blonde.)
8) My ex husband and his, errrr, life?
9) My ex job, ex boss, ex co-workers.
10) Sex, sex and more sex – or lack of.

How’s that for a list of things I don’t blog?

I really do wish I could blog about whether or not my partner can do my job. ‘Cause it would be an awesome blog post. Hmmm, password protection might be in order here. What do you think?

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Memories

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Remember my birthday? Remember when I spent a whole weekend catching up on my blog feeds and cleaning out my email boxes? Ah memories, wonderful memories. 10 days have passed. My inboxes are full and I’m behind on both reading blogs and writing blog posts. Damn.

On another note, for those who are even slightly interested in how I am handling “TW’s new job”. Without going into detail, let’s just say I’m amused. Incredibly amused. Everyday. Even when I am bitching because she’s worked 12 hours straight and not fixing me lunch or cooking dinner or assisting with the great IKEA caper of 2007 – I am still amused. It’s quite possible that I’ve never been this amused about anything else in my whole life. Yea, I’m THAT amused. You’d be amused too.

Now – back to work so I can try and play catch up on blog reading, blog writing and library book reading.

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What the heck happened?

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You know I started a new job a few months ago, right? And you also know that TW started a new job on Monday that brought her back to “work from home” status, right? I decided that I was going to need a new work day strategy, so I created one.

I decided I was going to create a mini list of three large things that needed to get finished every day. Three seemed perfectly doable, on top of all of the small things that need to be done every day – like 250 emails, a range of phone calls, reading blogs, leaving comments, etc…

So Monday, I finished everything on my to do list and had time to do some personal blogging, some personal blog clean up and do a wee bit of housework. And, I turned off the computer early.

Tuesday, same thing. I was really feeling good about this Three a Day thing.

Today, things went a little bit wrong. I’ve gotten my big three finished, well sort of – I’m having a coding issue that either will or won’t be resolved but there’s not much I can do about that. So I consider it finished. BUT I haven’t had any time to blog, read blog feeds or do any housework. And, I’m pretty sure I won’t be turning off the computer early tonight.

I’m not giving up on my Three a Day though. I think it works, mostly. I just need to leave a bit of wiggle room for things that go just a little wrong. Right?

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Don’t drink the kool-aid

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I don’t care how much you want to, how good your boss swears it will taste. Don’t do it. Do NOT drink the kool-aid. And for you older folks, watch out for the Jell-o, too.

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Updated: I have not been asked to “drink the kool-aid” – all is well with me. Just wanted to provide a reminder for those of you who ARE being asked to “drink the kool-aid”. 🙂

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Stalked! (by coffee)

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Many years ago, at a dot com I used to live at, I was stalked by coffee. It wasn’t just me, the entire community was stalked by Millstone coffee. There was a great free offer from Millstone and everyone was thrilled by that ad. Until the ad banners turned into pop up ads. Then we were not so thrilled. The ad banners and pop up ads were on every page of the site – every time you changed pages, you’d get another one. We were STALKED by Millstone coffee and we did not like it. We quickly went from being in love with Millstone for the free offer to calling for a boycott of Millstone.

Flash forward 10 years and I’m being stalked by coffee. Again. But this time I’m not calling for a boycott.

Juan Valdez has a great contest being advertised on BlogHer. Cool. Besides being on BlogHer, the Juan Valdez ad is on blogs all over the internet because of the awesome folks at BlogHer Ads. Cool.

So I expect to see a lot of Juan Valdez when I’m reading blogs. I did not expect to see Juan Valdez when I read my Juno webmail (the account attached to my homeschool blog comments). Nor did I expect to see Juan Valdez when I checked out About.com’s brand new weight loss product, Calorie Count Plus (which by the way looks fantastic and could easily give some of the more popular – or less popular – diet tools a run for their money.) I also did not expect to see Juan Valdez when I was surfing online newspapers for women blogging health for said newspapers.

Juan Valdez is everywhere I am. Stalked. Again.

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Seven Principles of Community

Community Chest, Daily Dose, Personality, Work /

I’d really like to see those of us who work in community, particularly online community, get away from the phrase “community building”. I’ve never liked it but for lack of a better term or in order to help people understand community, I’ve been using the darn phrase for about 10 years. I’m really done with it. I’m not done with these Seven Principles though.

If you read through those principles, it’s very basic, easy even. Be honest, open and interesting. And show respect for the people who make up your community.

It’s about basic human relations, and creating a strong foundation for long-term, two-way mutually beneficial relationship.

It’s just that easy. Really.

What kind of relationship do you have with your community if you don’t talk, if you don’t listen, if you don’t show respect, if you don’t make a personal connection?

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Selling or Sucking?

5 Comments / Daily Dose, Personality, Questions and Answers, Work /

Last night, TW and I were sitting out on the front porch, as we often do, lost in our own thoughts.  Quiet until she said something about “soul sucking jobs” – which was interesting because I had been thinking about “jobs that make you sell you soul”.

Is there a difference between a soul sucking job and one that asks you to sell your soul?  Is it a matter of perspective? Or personality? Or something else entirely?

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