Well the weekend began with us going to Seatac airport to see if there were any last min deals to LA or Vegas.... Being Presidents day weekend, it was all for not. I will say Alaska Air and United Air at least attempted to help us... Others made snyde remarks. If it was life or death, we could have gotten to our desired destinations... Being a trip on a whim, we weren't able to stomach the prices being tossed around. So instead we went to Frys Electronics, Todai sushi/chinese buffet, a few EB Games, then to Target. The result was some home improvement items, primarily the bathroom cabinet. Several hours later and with more swear words uttered than in Bad Santa, its built and up and solid. Also note the artwork purchased at Richies thift store, an old time favorite of ours. We also, at Target, got a new bed set.

So this blue celica, same year and color as mine, passes me. At first I was excited as it looked clean, they had theirs done up a bit, and I was in mine, so we were making a real Celica ptresence on the freeway. That is, until I saw the plate " prazgod", and the stupid Jesus fish. That just turned me right around, and my new friend was my new enemy. Why are religius people such showboats and try and shove it in everyones face? Get a life.

The saying when it rains it pours is in full effect this month. On the last day of my one person who gave notice last friday, I received this notice from someone else on my staff. So my feathers were pretty ruffled on Friday as I've gone from 4 to 2 people I now supervise, and need to quickly put bodies in chairs yet not hire total bozos who only end up causing grief. As such, I am here at work for my 4th weekend in a row as I seem to get nothing done all week with employees quitting. On the positive side, I get to hire 2 new people who I'll get to choose myself, I have a nice office with big windows, and my boss & his boss are supportive and know it's a rough time in accounting. And if I handle it well, in a month I'll have new people and look like the star who saved the day. Or the crazy guy whose burned out, wears a skippers hat and refers to accounting as the "S.S. Chris" and keeps declaring that I'm going down with the ship... one of the 2 outcomes. Kim bought me an inMotion Ipod stereo. I had silently pondered getting some form of an Ipod stereo but never acted on this urge. Somehow I transcended time and space, to another plane of existence where on a celestial level we communicated... and she went and got one for me for valentines day. It's even the one I would have got myself, as I really like the style of it. Everyone at work is jealous I think, or at least that's how I took their comments of "whats that".

That said, enjoy pics of my office, the inMotion, the resignation letter.

Just because it was one of those weeks... I also forgot to mention I received an almost $200 ticket. What for? Expired tabs. Turns out the tabs on my commuter car expired March 2005. So it's been almost a year. I am going to go to court under the officers advice... if I show them I got tabs within a few days after the ticket, he said the judge will probably reduce my fine drastically. So I purchased new tabs this weekend and will send in my ticket asking for a hearing.

Oliver hanging out on the Radman... And Sylmar riding the bed.

Its been one hell of a week at work. Without going into details one of my staff gave her resignation after a wild week of calling in sick when she was job hunting, heated arguements, and me working lots of hours. Friday it all came to a head, and at the end of the day she resigned, one weeks notice (pic of letter is said resignation). So to take the edge off I had a beerski at work along with my coworkers. I also inherited an Alien Lamp that was left by some other employee. So you take the good with the bad.... And try not to kill your staff as much as you want to.

Just some shots of Oliver... seldom does he hang out with me, but on occasion if Sylmar isn't around and he wants some cuddle action he'll hop on the Radman here while I watch TV.

First off, I tried to do this posting from my Sidekick and the emails are jammed up, not sending, but won't let me delete... so if they do go through eventually, you might see several posts with the same pictures/blog entry. Hence, now i'm doing it the cheater way from sidekick.dngr.com.

So it was one hell of a week. One of my staff members has been nothing short of a thorn in my side. Calling in sick several times in January after being told no one could take time off (it's a busy time of year), when she is there she sandbags it, you ask her to do something she doesn't etc. My boss and my bosses boss don't like her either, and we started documenting everything she was doing wrong incase we had to fire her soon. Well after just not coming into work on Thursday due to "personal business" she got an earfull from me and my boss Friday morning. She freaked out, started telling my boss how much she dislikes him and his style, how she wishes we'd just fire her, etc etc. Finally, she admiited that she has been looking for another job (after denying it several times). So we left the meeting that the understanding that we'd start looking for a new staff person, and she could keep job hunting. All was good. After lunch she came into my office, she got an offer from the company she had talked to the prior day, and was giving one weeks notice. Actually the story is more involved than that, but suffice it to say that I have 1 week to cross train her position. And then our auditors come out for 2 weeks for year end audit. So February is shaping up to be just a great month. So to celebrate (take the edge off) I had a beerski with my coworkers...at work naturally. It was friday after all, and the week before we got bombed on Jagermeister. I personally was hoping for the hard liquor this friday as i needed it, but alas only beer was handed out. As well I got lucky, I was the receipient of an Alien Lamp that was going to be thrown out. It was found in the cubical of some old employee long gone. No one else wanted it... I don't know why.

The pic of the letter is proof positive that I only have one more week of dealing with a person who may well be an alien herself as she doesn't act like anyone I've ever encountered at work.

I'm in class and too fried from work to pay attention. So I thought I'd take some pics, why not.

Okay he really started laughing it up and talking to himself so I'm leaving before someone other than his magazines become the focus of his attention. Here's the Space Needle so I have something to post.