I’m enjoying work a lot now that I’m working from home. Yesterday, I conducted a phone interview with a puppy snoring in my lap.

Last week, I’m concentrating on a task, and a VP asks me into his office.

He says, could you please e-mail a document to “guy-whose-name-I’ve-never-heard”?

I say, what document? What guy?

He says, I’ll e-mail you his address and the document is on the intranet.

(At this point the astute reader will be wondering why he needs me for this. I’m a trainer and this is a sales guy. Well, this guy’s really swamped this week, maybe he just brainfarted. I like him so I’ll do this even though it’s really stupid)

I get the document off the intranet, but it still has our old logo on it. It’s a pdf, so I can’t change it.

I ask the technical writer to do it, as she has the original doc file.

She insists I clear it with her boss first.

E-mail her boss. Boss doesn’t get back to me. Tech writer forgets about it.

The next day, the VP asks me why the e-mail still isn’t sent. I tell him to lean on the tech writer.

All this bull, all these people disturbed because this guy thought it was easier for me to stop what I’m doing and send e-mail for him. Remember, he e-mailed me the e-mail address to send to.

That’s when I said, “if I’m home and they don’t see me, I cease to exist”.

A while back Lou blogged about a three-headed frog, and its possible link to environmental problems.

And today, we have a four-eared cat on the news.

Why do I see things like these becoming prized pets in the near future?

This is a post that belongs more on Comet’s blog, but I think mine has more of a readership and I want it to get out. When I started her site, I had the intention of eventually publishing a list of people who were willing to babysit pets (in their home, not a cage), for free or a fee. If you know of anyone who does that please let me know (along with any conditions).

This has become more of an urgent request since I’m going to Toronto for five days starting on April 12th. I’m looking into taking Comet with me, but if not I’ll need a place to leave her.

T calls me from the Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco, and ends the conversation with “Well, I gotta go, I’m going to a workshop called Building Gollum“.

Bastard.

My second blogging anniversary came and went without my noticing. Oh well, happy belated anniversary, dear Chronicles. You’ve put me in contact with so many fun people, brought me in so many unexpected and wonderful directions, that I forgot your birthday.

About three years ago, I got T a cellphone. Last fall the phone died, and I said that as part of the personal guarantee of satisfaction that came with the present I had given him, I’d pay for half the price of the remplacement.

Then I got T an iPod last Christmas, and for my birthday he got me a dog. And the dog promptly ate the iPod earphones, and the iPod charger’s wire.

If it’s T’s gift to me that ate my gift to T, which guarantee applies?

Rumsfeld gets majorly burned on Face the Nation.

Watch the video.

(via Dr. Wank)

This weekend I used my big red exercise ball and my little dog, to recreate a scene out of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Hours of fun.

I’ve mentioned before that I’m pretty bad about keeping up to date with music, and just horrible about attending concerts. That is, even if I like an artist, I don’t like to attend concerts all that much.

But I like Stefie Shock’s stuff so much that it warranted making an exception, and on Friday night I did just that. It was my first concert in four years.

Exceptions are sometimes very good things, and this was. The band was excellent and eclectic, and all seemed to be having a good time, and the light show was very appropriate and entertaining, without being distracting. Stefie himself was in great form and, contrary to what the critics said about Thursday’s premiere, really connected with the audience. He did a little bit of theatrics, like changing behind a semi-transparent wall, just enough to be entertaining, not so much as to be gimmicky.

I had such a good time that I’ve decided I’ll return if they add more dates.