Yep, CT3 (Carpel Tunnel Pt 3). And it's not because I've been slackin' at my job like some people, or livin' la vida loca. No siree!

The pain is back, and all as a result of 3 major things and some little ones:

1) working remotely from home on a big.. a really BIG, actually a HUGE project involving roping in the Gov, the Mayor and some high level Chinese dignataries for a big (did I say huge?) event. In fact, its so freaking big we had to get, not 1 but 2 corporate event planners to help us with this.

2) my laptop has been getting worse in the middle of all this and I've been doing some minor fixes and patches trying to hold off some major failures... but it's not freikin workin'! As of this moment I've spent close to 5 hrs doing tweaks hoping it'll work and so far it hasn't. The worst part is that I know what's wrong. Some of it has to do with BIOS settings issues, including the default speed setting which affects my laptops power mgt kicking in either automatic sleep modes or reboots (sound familiar _Jon); the remaining part has to do with software incompatabilities which will require me to do uninstalls and re-installs in specific and meticulous order, and systematic upgrades of software and updates of drivers or plugins... which I don't have time to do now. Now I'm sure that Mr. Santa Helpful has lots of brilliant ideas on what I can or should do, but I'm not really in the mood for them right now.

3) this is topped off with bits of voyeurism (what you guys call lurking) and escapism in the form of excessive commenting, fun blogging, and lots of emailing to my wonderful pen pal soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. They make me laugh and cry the hardest because they live so on the edge of life themselves.

As if all this writing wasn't enough... my firm has it's year end closing on 11/30/05, which means reports out my wazzu! Until such date this post will remain at the top as a reminder of the living hell I'm going through! Since I'm being made to do crappy work (at Belzebub's beckoning), I get to do all the data crunching, number confirming and pie chart configuring for the reports. Oh JOY, stats heaven... NOT! Of course I first have to develop a mechanism for reporting these damned things, but hey, give it to the lackey... you know, the new girl... she's smart, she'll figure it out and make us all look good.

And since every good employ needs even more punishment... It's Performance Review and Benefits Review Time!!! For my benefits review I have to figure out where I the hell I can go with my life insurance plan where they won't bleed me to death or nail me to the wall (so they don't have to pay out on my life) because as a non-smoking, non-drinking, long time vegetarian my life insurance rates have been unusually high and have continued to almost double my premium yet again. I can blame the idiots in IT, who do nothing but sit on their arses eating twinkies, drinking soda and playing games on their pc's all day!

As for my Performance, hell, I think I'll just copy Bou's posted review and send it in. Actually, come to think of it, I'll just copy all the quantifying and qualitative statements from my updated resume and place them in my accomplishments section and then copy all of Bou's goals and remaining statement. Yeah, that's the ticket! That should work well!

So in very special way... this is saying: so long, fairwell, avidezai, goodbye... adieu, adios, ta-ta & sayonara... That is until my hands feel better or I can get my frieken laptop to behave and my desktop modem to obey. And if they don't, I'll just have to get out my leather crop whip for some lackey in IT and pass the buck. Till then, I'll be seeyin' ya in all of those familiar places; and sometimes when I'm reading you... (and even when I'm not)... well, I'll be feeling blue and always missin' you!

Posted by: Michele at 02:33 AM | Comments (14) | Add Comment
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1 Noooooo...... We will miss you too much..... Take care of yourself. I'll have you in my prayers. But we will sooo miss you.....

Posted by: Tammi at November 03, 2005 07:05 AM (LU5am)

2 Can't you just glue a pencil onto the end of your nose and use *that* to type? Sheeeeeesh. It's not all about you, ya know! ;-P And as an idiot in IT, I'll have you know that those "games" that I play all day are actually eye-hand coordination development exercises. Yeah, that's the ticket!

Posted by: zonker at November 03, 2005 08:23 AM (/y7q3)

3 Hang in there dear! We'll be here when you get back.

Posted by: oddybobo at November 03, 2005 09:52 AM (6Gm0j)

4 But... But.. But... Where else am I going to get a sane New York perpective on the world?

Posted by: Contagion at November 03, 2005 12:32 PM (Q5WxB)

5 do your exercises......

Posted by: _Jon at November 03, 2005 02:20 PM (/R7YK)

6 If I wasn't already tied up, I'd offer to be your "blog boy" and take dictation for you. Hope you heal up soon.

Posted by: Sgt Hook at November 03, 2005 02:49 PM (jlMVG)

7 darn it, zonker STOLE MY IDEA!! NO FAIR!! I'm telling MOM!! beyond that, since youve made it so clear you're not in the mood for my er...help (not that I blame you) i wont offer any of my other ideas including the one which consists of the cure for the common cold. oh well...i'll just wait until a more appropriate time to bring that one out, eh?

Posted by: mr. helpful at November 03, 2005 05:51 PM (U28kD)

8 You need to learn to type with your toes, they don't do much all day so putting them to work would be a good idea.

Posted by: Machelle at November 04, 2005 01:15 PM (ZAyoW)

9 What a bummer... I'm so sorry about the CT. I think you need a voice activated laptop... :-)

Posted by: Teresa at November 04, 2005 10:42 PM (FZwDL)

10 This so sucks. I'm sorry!! GRRR. Oh on my performance eval, I left the middle part about goals blank. I handed it to my boss and said, "Tell the big guy that I'm happy and have no issues." He just kind of stared and I walked away. I couldn't lie.

Posted by: Bou at November 05, 2005 09:43 AM (5JHEt)

11 *hug* Heal quickly, please :-)

Posted by: Harvey at November 06, 2005 06:27 PM (LU5am)

12 ok, looks like some drastic measures are necessary. so, here we go... "we want michele" "we want michele" "we want michele" "we want michele" come on everyone, join with me... "we want michele" "WE WANT MICHELE!!" "WE WANT MICHELE!!!" heh heh heh...

Posted by: mr. helpful at November 09, 2005 01:22 AM (U28kD)

13 Do we need to do a Michelle-a-thon? (Please note that there's no "g" on the end of that, Mister Helpful.)

Posted by: zonker at November 09, 2005 08:41 AM (/y7q3)

14 so noted, mr. zonker. i applaud your restraint, sir! a michele-a-thong....oopss...i mean michele-a-thon just might do the trick. you could be "vice president in charge of mullets" for the campaign and i could be "vice president in charge of using google earth satellite images to try and locate michele's whereabouts". given that kind of executive firepower, there is no doubt in my mind that we could do some serious damage to the credibility of democrats everywhere!

Posted by: mr. helpful at November 09, 2005 01:18 PM (U28kD)

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