All of the annoying people were absent from the office today. 8 hours of utterly blissful work.
Well, 6, with my extended lunch + shopping.
Okay, 4, since we started on some cold cuts, cheese, and wine sometime before 4:30.
This poor intern's on her second week and must be confused as hell as to how this business is profitable…but happiness at work counts for a lot.
@matigo Would that I could. Going away for 10 days over Easter, as are half of my team, and we need to line up everything (automated newsletters and all) before we go.
One’s so absent minded, irrational, and generally foggy that their general presence is more of a hindrance than anything, so I’m pretty much on my own.
Or not: I have an intern (who knows nothing about wine, spreadsheets, or databases) who I have to train at the same time.
Very strange that the boss authorised the most important people in the office to bugger off at exactly the same time.
D: Let's repurpose the table, do the math.
A: Share it on Google Drive, I want to try solving it with simplex.
D: $/topping?
A: Yep.
In our group we have 1 computer scientist who specialises in data visualisation, 1 electrical engineer, 1 (cheap as hell) accountant, and 1 chemical engineer turned banker. So all that's left for me to do is to write something to place the order on the phone automatically?
Frugal hunger.
@matigo Oh a great deal of fun. Invited some wine-loving friends over as well, so far less awkward than the usual events when it's always the colleagues' clients, and a great chance to catch up with all of them.
@matigo Setting out the glasses and nibbles, opening the bottles and fridging them if necessary, tasting, (double-)decanting, and of course small talk with the visiting winemaker.
TIL: "that's what she said" also exists in French. Where did I learn this? From one of Chile's leading winemakers, whose family also created Grand Marnier.
The tastings are fun, but the 40 minutes of prep beforehand is when it's educational.
Exhausting day. Putting out fires started by disorganised fools, a beautiful tasting of Viñedo Chadwick with Eduardo Chadwick, and now 3 hours of class.
Lots of wine tonight. Shame we started with the legends, instead of finishing with them.
@hazardwarning It doesn’t always feel great but sometimes can be relaxing nonetheless…perhaps just good memories. My primary and secondary schools were halfway up a hill, lots of humidity (read: walls dripping every morning) and all that.
// @matigo