I am a call-closing *machine*
Dec. 19th, 2006 09:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mousmeWork is chugging along merrily today. Consistently busy, but not crazy. Shift change is now (the night shift overlaps with the swing shift), so I'm taking the opportunity to update a little bit. I have been closing calls all afternoon and evening (which essentially means that I'm writing up the summary of what happened during an alarm, assigning it a number and putting it in the client's call history). I have done about 200, which accounts for about 60% of the day's calls. Not too shabby.
Had a marvellous weekend. Got up at oh-my-God o'clock on Sunday morning and caught a lift with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ulvain, his brother, and our mutual friend Janik all the way to the Godforsaken Howling Wilderness. We grabbed a quick breakfast at Tim Horton's, and spent the time in the car catching up on news, since I hadn't seen any of them since August.
We visited a property in whichulvain and his brother were interested in order to build a hippie commune survivalist compound in the relatively near future. They're looking at properties in the area and in rural Quebec, having both received the shock of their lives a few weeks ago when they found out about the peak oil crisis. I've been thinking about this myself for a while, and I've always wanted to live in the country, but it seems my sense of urgency isn't nearly as developed as theirs. The property was lovely, 119 acres of land, a barn and a small farmhouse, but the buildings were in such a state of disrepair that I doubt the nice lady will get anything close to her asking price. If she knocked $50K off her price, I'd be knocking at the door of my bank asking for a mortgage. As it is, though, it's not really feasible.
Spent the afternoon withfearsclave and his lovely spousal unit. I had a long heart-to-heart with Carolyn (the spousal unit in question) about her work, where she's having some communication issues with her boss, while fearsclave took the others out for a crash course in the Safe Handling and Shooting of Firearms. When they returned we partook of Glogg, which wasn't as strong as last year's (see fearsclave's LJ for the details on what he puts in his Glogg -which is essentially mulled wine) but still very tasty.
Whilefearsclave went off to buy dinner with ulvain's brother, Janik, ulvain and I remained in the living room, drinking more Glogg and succumbing to fatigue, singing silly songs (including the theme to "Passe-Partout," which was a French-Canadian kids' show we all watched growing up, and many different ABBA tunes). 'Twas much fun.
Carolyn went off to visit her mother while we consumed the pizza and discussed the fate of the world as we know it, and then Janik and I left the boys to their own devices in the living room and had our own heart-to-heart about what's been going on with her in the past few months, sitting happily onfearsclave's kitchen floor.
The day came to an end all too soon, and it was very reluctantly that we all piled into the car to head back into Montreal. I hope that much less time will elapse before my next visit up to the GHW.
In the meantime, the cleaning continues apace in my apartment. I was feeling quite discouraged about it yesterday morning, but I made a big push this morning, and cleared out a ton of stuff from my bedroom this morning. I don't know about the rest of you, but I had this one pile of laundry which was sitting in a bag, waiting for me to do it. It wasn't anything I use often, and so it always got left for "when I'll have time," and thus never got done. This morning, I bit the bullet and started a load. I think that there's enough in there for one more load, and then I'll finally have a handle on the laundry situation.
I'm in the process of de-cluttering, actually. I am getting rid of stuff I don't use, stuff that broke but that I swore to myself I would fix "someday," papers I haven't looked at in ages, everything. If I discover something that I haven't used or missed in a year, then out it goes. Once I clear out the rooms, then I will move onto the closets. The rule I am trying to internalize is this: You can't organize clutter.
Once that's done, I'm going to tackle the out-of-the-way spots that I don't get to nearly often enough. In fact, most of the time I don't even notice them, and I doubt visitors would notice them either. However, because I've put myself in weird positions trying to clean and de-clutter, I've suddenly become aware of them. "Wow, that doorjamb is filthy! How did that happen?" "Geez, that spot behind the washing machine is full of cat hair! I should do something about that." Etc. That's not my priority, though. Priority is to get the place presentable for company. I shall work on the details after that's done.
In the meantime, the kitchen and bathroom are still clean, and the living room and bedroom are coming along slowly but surely. I have to wash the dining room floor again, but it's not too bad. While the place still isn't in the kind of condition where I'd want someone to visit, if I did have to let someone in I wouldn't be completely mortified, which is a big improvement.
Saw the little man from Paradoxe today, and he and I don't speak the same language in person either, but we managed to get our points across. More to the point, he seems to make everything ten times more complicated than it has to be, and doesn't seem especially organized. However, he promised to have both my estimates ready by the end of the week, so I'm cautiously optimistic.
Had a marvellous weekend. Got up at oh-my-God o'clock on Sunday morning and caught a lift with
ulvain, his brother, and our mutual friend Janik all the way to the Godforsaken Howling Wilderness. We grabbed a quick breakfast at Tim Horton's, and spent the time in the car catching up on news, since I hadn't seen any of them since August.We visited a property in which
ulvain and his brother were interested in order to build a Spent the afternoon with
fearsclave and his lovely spousal unit. I had a long heart-to-heart with Carolyn (the spousal unit in question) about her work, where she's having some communication issues with her boss, while fearsclave took the others out for a crash course in the Safe Handling and Shooting of Firearms. When they returned we partook of Glogg, which wasn't as strong as last year's (see fearsclave's LJ for the details on what he puts in his Glogg -which is essentially mulled wine) but still very tasty.While
fearsclave went off to buy dinner with ulvain's brother, Janik, ulvain and I remained in the living room, drinking more Glogg and succumbing to fatigue, singing silly songs (including the theme to "Passe-Partout," which was a French-Canadian kids' show we all watched growing up, and many different ABBA tunes). 'Twas much fun.Carolyn went off to visit her mother while we consumed the pizza and discussed the fate of the world as we know it, and then Janik and I left the boys to their own devices in the living room and had our own heart-to-heart about what's been going on with her in the past few months, sitting happily on
fearsclave's kitchen floor.The day came to an end all too soon, and it was very reluctantly that we all piled into the car to head back into Montreal. I hope that much less time will elapse before my next visit up to the GHW.
In the meantime, the cleaning continues apace in my apartment. I was feeling quite discouraged about it yesterday morning, but I made a big push this morning, and cleared out a ton of stuff from my bedroom this morning. I don't know about the rest of you, but I had this one pile of laundry which was sitting in a bag, waiting for me to do it. It wasn't anything I use often, and so it always got left for "when I'll have time," and thus never got done. This morning, I bit the bullet and started a load. I think that there's enough in there for one more load, and then I'll finally have a handle on the laundry situation.
I'm in the process of de-cluttering, actually. I am getting rid of stuff I don't use, stuff that broke but that I swore to myself I would fix "someday," papers I haven't looked at in ages, everything. If I discover something that I haven't used or missed in a year, then out it goes. Once I clear out the rooms, then I will move onto the closets. The rule I am trying to internalize is this: You can't organize clutter.
Once that's done, I'm going to tackle the out-of-the-way spots that I don't get to nearly often enough. In fact, most of the time I don't even notice them, and I doubt visitors would notice them either. However, because I've put myself in weird positions trying to clean and de-clutter, I've suddenly become aware of them. "Wow, that doorjamb is filthy! How did that happen?" "Geez, that spot behind the washing machine is full of cat hair! I should do something about that." Etc. That's not my priority, though. Priority is to get the place presentable for company. I shall work on the details after that's done.
In the meantime, the kitchen and bathroom are still clean, and the living room and bedroom are coming along slowly but surely. I have to wash the dining room floor again, but it's not too bad. While the place still isn't in the kind of condition where I'd want someone to visit, if I did have to let someone in I wouldn't be completely mortified, which is a big improvement.
Saw the little man from Paradoxe today, and he and I don't speak the same language in person either, but we managed to get our points across. More to the point, he seems to make everything ten times more complicated than it has to be, and doesn't seem especially organized. However, he promised to have both my estimates ready by the end of the week, so I'm cautiously optimistic.
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Date: 2006-12-20 03:42 am (UTC)Yay cleaning! I know exactly what you mean, as I've gone through that a couple of weeks ago...
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Date: 2006-12-20 03:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-20 08:01 pm (UTC);) Nah, I'm not really that evil.
Glad you guys had a good time :)
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Date: 2006-12-20 09:50 pm (UTC)Glogg?
Date: 2006-12-20 04:45 am (UTC)Was fun, and we must do that again simetime soon, before civilization collapses.
Re: Glogg?
Date: 2006-12-20 04:46 am (UTC)Re: Glogg?
Date: 2006-12-20 04:52 am (UTC)Re: Glogg?
Date: 2006-12-20 11:14 am (UTC)Re: Glogg?
Date: 2006-12-20 02:08 pm (UTC)Them thar funny European scribbles...
Date: 2006-12-20 06:47 am (UTC)Re: Them thar funny European scribbles...
Date: 2006-12-20 02:07 pm (UTC)Re: Them thar funny European scribbles...
Date: 2006-12-20 02:45 pm (UTC)