siren's call

i am tired, my little メロンパンs. i am tired and weak and require caffeine.

there is no potable caffeine to be had here.

if i left and took fifteen minutes off and got myself a potable cup of caffeine, i'd be spending money i don't have whilst losing money while not working. that would be doubly-stupid.

yet. and yet. i need caffeine. i am tired. and dizzy. wooooooze.

go take a nap in my honor. i am so tired, my little メロンパンs. please nap for me!

a tip for the office grunts

everyone who works in an office has this problem: after some months on the job, you start getting messages from IS, or IT, or whatever the heck that department is called at your place of work, telling you that you are at your allotted server limit in stored e-mail and you need to clear space.

wtf?, you say. i need these, damn it! i've already deleted what i can! i've moved what folders i can to archive, but...auuugh!

here's the tip:

do not, ever, organize by subject or project. you will be working on those for ever and ever, amen or termination. it will be a massive, huge, ginourmous pain in the arse, but organize by year then month. if you know you have a set group of projects every freaking hour, day, week, month, year, just create a subfolder for each month for that project. it will take a lot of time to set up, but it will make your e-mail so much easier to archive.

so, main folders for years
2006
2007
2008...

then subfolder in those years for each month
april
may
june...

then subfolders to the months for each project, be it case number or client number, what have you.

create a folder for the current year in your archive. when the current month closes, move it to the archive folder for that year.

this way, you'll have only the current month's e-mail on the server, which means you get fewer notices from IS/IT/whomever. make sure you set up quick access to your archive, which is best kept on a server drive than your harddrive (just in case).

believe me, this will save you a lot of time and trouble in the long run, my little メロンパンs. in this matter, trust your モチ先輩, for she is wise and practical, office-wise. in all other aspects of life, however, she continues to suck.

this blog should be renamed mochizuki-sempai and the caffeinated life

ah, toffee nut latté! much love to this sweet treat!

unfortunately, your モチ先輩 has been dieting for lent (starve yourselves in jesus's name! amen! hallelujah!), so she can no longer consume an entire s'bucks grande toffee nut latté without feeling somewhat ill. this is both good and bad. good in that it means that your モチ先輩 has succeeded in reaching a point where she is forced to eat and drink healthfully. bad in that damn it! i wanted to indulge in the luxury of toffee nut latté, a gi-ant vat of sticky-yum caffeinated goodness!

still, t'was a glory to consume, even though i had to slow my consumption of the nectar to small sips that left me with chilled toffee nut latté; good, but it was better hot.

your モチ先輩 will only be ordering talls from now on, my little メロンパンs. i recommend you do the same. indulgence in small quantities is the phrase of the day.

continuing in coffee

i have taken to making my own coffee every morning. this 1) is cheaper over time and 2) ensures that my morning coffee does not suck.

the people who brew coffee for the office like it pisswater weak. they know nothing of coffee. (they believe DD is the height of roasted beanness, which all true coffee lovers know is shite.) (the dorks among you just thought, "what do beans/coffee have to do with dungeons & dragons?" this is why i ♥ dorks.)

s'bucks, while tasty, is pricey.

buying s'bucks beans, however, is not as bad.

i have a grinder at home, i have a french press, i have a kettle, i have filtered water, i have electricity. i have coffee! glorious, caffienated, roasted-beanerific goodness, every morning. with half & half, as milk takes up too much space in the travel mug. mmm.

thinking of going to full cream, as that would be even more satisfying and take up even less space. more room for caffienated beverage! also, i wouldn't have to drink the juice-glass of leftover pressed coffee before i head out 'cause i'm too big an idjit to figure out the right amount of ground beans/hot water. that takes precious time! time i don't have! latelatelatelatelate!

naturally, being the slothful lover of sleep that i am, i am having an impossible time training myself to get up early enough to grind and brew my own french roast/french press coffee. this means i'm about ten minutes late to work every morning. kind of defeats the purpose, but i shall learn, my little メロンパンs. i shall learn.

ah, the caffeinated life

this s'bucks soy latte is heavenly. nectar of the gods. the only thing that'd make it better is if my very own Ganymede were serving it to me. ::heh heh:: (君のもち先輩はえげつない, my dear メロンパンs.)

it's amazing how happy a good cup of coffee makes me. and how a bad cup of coffee can completely ruin my day.

a rule to live by: never settle for bad coffee.

春であるので, go and treat yourselves today, my little メロンパンs.

microsoft continues to make my life miserable

my mom can't get her resume to work, 'cause she used the infinitely superior wordperfect to set it up and is trying to keep the formatting when she opens it in the shitacular ms word.

this is an issue because she is whining to no end at me. why can't she open it this way? why does she lose the formatting? i tell her the answers again and again. she doesn't listen. she e-mails my brother-in-law who specializes in all things computery, and he tells her to open the file the way i told her to open it. she still loses her formatting, so she's still pissy. whine whine.

i told her the only way she can keep the formatting is to get wordperfect for her new pc.

does she listen?

no she does not, my little メロンパンs.

no she does not.