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top five spaces for working remotely in Toronto. For those who find themselves working remotely when they're not home.

Having an asthma attack intense enough that even after 2 puffs on the inhaler I could breathe, coughing hard enough to drop me to my knees. Grabbed my coat and ran outside - if it's allergies from HVAC mold clean air will help.

ETA: definitely allergies. Went back inside to get my stuff, was wheezing before I got to my desk. A coworker carried my stuff out for me. Breathing got better once I got outside. Now sitting in my car letting breathing get back to normal before driving home. I hate when the air tries to kill me.

[On seeing me washing my lunch dishes at work]
"You're going to make someone a good wife some day!" (from a male executive. my ex-uncle once made the same comment on seeing me cook.)

[On a guy knowing what colour his shirt is]
"Oh, your wife has you really well trained!"

Because washing dishes, cooking, and fashion sense are all "women's work". What century is this again?

Spent my Saturday night at work doing a contingency flip. Miraculously, it went off without a hitch.

I consumed way too much caffeine, because I expected that something would go wrong and I'd be working well into the daylight hours.

So now I am home, and can't sleep.

And now I kill time until the lattes wear off enough to let me sleep.

So, it is the first of February. A new beginning!

Thus far, I have;

• Been woken up by the pager (nothing serious or time consuming)


• Had no voice when I responded to the page (but some water cleared that up)


• Had a tub of old soy flour dive for my groin from the top shelf when I opened a cupboard to look for spices, covering my only clean pair of jeans.


• Had my webhost fall entirely off the net for a while (it came back, and now I am backing up the data files for my wiki)

February, are you fucking with me?

*looks outside*
I think I picked the wrong night to work late.
*ponders stopping for dinner somewhere near work before driving home*
This is not going to be a fun commute.

PS; actually, the drive wasn't that bad. I was glad that I took a minute in the mostly empty parking lot to remind myself what driving iin snow is like though. Much brake-pumping.

I am off work today. I've been to the gym, and got a new cell phone. With internet on it. Moo hoo ha!

My employer is finally giving us casual Fridays every week. With a caveat - we have to wear one item of $CORPORATE_CLOTHING_LINE clothing. I'm going to check tonight to see if they have underwear and socks.

Point form post!

• Spent time sewing last night. Made myself a pocket full of fail. The snaps were too loose (apparently they need a reinforcing layer of fabric), and I mounted them too low on the pocket back. And the straps I made, planning to turn them inside out, did not turn inside out. I cut a new pocket back, straps and reinforcing strips, and will take another shot at pouches tonight.


• When I'm waiting for code to compile, etc., I am geeking out about White Wolf's Scion. Anyone know of a good site for Norse words/phrases?


• Yesterday, I woke up at 4:30 am with a splitting headache, and couldn't get back to sleep. I woke up at 4:30 again today, but no headache, so I passed out again. My body is trying to recalim the lost sleep from yesterday. Horrible chemistry has been invoked.


• I also need to remember to go through my sarongs some night this week and see which ones need to have ties added.


• According to the Weather network, the forecast temperatures for Fest is now NaN C, for the entire 14 days.


• As further evidence of my neural degredation, I find I am growing to quite like Old Krupnik.


• I need a vacation.

1. This will be my last week on-call for $OLDSYSTEM. I am not going on-call for $NEWSYSTEM until after I come back from Kaleidoscope. I will miss the pager pay, but will not miss people pestering me. I'm going to start leaving the laptop at work. Even when I go back on call, it'll only be one week in three.


2. I snuck out this afternoon and went for a walk along the shore of gooseshit pond here at work. I picked up a pile of big goose feathers (found feathers have always seemed a little magical to me). I walked past a heron wading aroudn the pond, and found a couple dead fish. I had no idea there were *fish* in there. Well, I saw two dead ones, so perhaps there isn't, anymore, but that does expalin the heron. It's nice to get a little bit of connection to nonhuman life.


3. There is talk of *not* having us all stay until 7:30 pm tonight. And next week should be back to normal hours.