Eagles Over the Kennebec

Arrived at work amidst gentle snow; wandered around a bit before I located the building that HR lives in, filled out papers, walked in the snow over to new digs and made myself known to those folks who happened to be about. Spent the morning on a tour of the increasingly snow-covered campus, meeting many pleasant people whose names I will no doubt need to be reminded of again, and finding out that various necessary things couldn't happen because I Wasn't in the System Yet. At noon, conditions were bad enough to justify going home, so I called kinzel, who heroically drove across the river to retrieve me.

At home, we shared lunch, after which kinzel unfortunately had to deal with a Computer Event. I retired to my office to fill out even more job-related forms (remember how computers were going to make us free of the tyranny of paper?), then did some writing, finished reading Carnival by matociquala, and scrubbled cat bellies.

It is not, as I write this, snowing. The weatherbeans are still promising ice on the overnight, which I could do without, thanks. Tomorrow is forecast to be partly cloudy and colder than it has been, but not out of line for the season.

And so it goes.

There's a life-size marble lion on the ground floor of the building I work in. At first, I thought he was sleeping. Then I saw the spear broken off in his side...

Among the many side effects of working the Season at my cousin Bean's is the Ritual Disarray of The Calendar. Despite that much of what I do at work is date driven, it's difficult to remember what day it is when the schedule has one working Sunday, Wednesday, Friday, Monday, &c. The best one can hope for is to achieve a rhythm: Work-off-off. Work-Off. Work-Off-off. Work... Which is all very well and good for Work's purposes, but plays utter havoc with the rest of life's Scheduled Events.

In other news, Google Translate still lacks a Liaden-English/English-Liaden function, though dea'Gauss has written to them repeatedly on this topic. I suppose the next step is sending Nelirikk up to talk with them. This does give one pause, but, really, better Nelirikk than Val Con, I think...

Today's to-do list includes filling out the Boskone questionnaire, answering at least some of my seriously backlogged email, filling SRM orders. Oh, and there's some writing to be done in there, somewhere.

Guess I'd better get on the stick...



ETA: LJ spellcheck doesn't recognize Liaden. Or Nelirikk -- which is just as well, really...