top o' the mornin'® 2/11/2014

[earendel]

Well, it's been a while since I've been around here. Just a little catching up to do.

Our cruise was a nice getaway. elwing's new joke is "Cruising like a Norwegian means sleeping like a sardine". Our cabin was quite small - the way it was placed it was impossible to walk around to one side (there was a built-in table in the way) and a fold-up bead attached to the wall on the other side. And the food wasn't quite as stellar as we've had on other cruises. But we were in warm climes and I dominated at trivia with the help of a woman and her mother who were as enthusiastic as I was.

On the work front, I didn't get the GS-12 position for which I applied. It seems that one of the other branches had an overabundance of GS-12s and so they lateraled one of them into the position I wanted. I'm still doing the same work (actually even more, now that we've officially "regionalized"). Because of that I've been so busy that I haven't had much time to do anything - even my breaks are taken up with "reporting", "support for others", "system administration" and other duties.

[MarleysGh0st]

And your cruise didn't make the news for any viral epidemics, so that's good!

Sorry about the job.

[earendel]

Sorry about the job.

Thanks. I can't say that I was surprised.