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Feb. 28th, 2009
A Real Update
Feb. 28th, 2009 09:44 pmThis week has been a harrowing adventure for young baking boy.
Health: This week has sucked for my health. Monday my knees were both killing me, by Tuesday afternoon I had developed the sniffles and a small cough. By Wednesday morning I had a fever, cough and aches. Missed two days of work, and even when I went in Friday, I was wishing I had stayed home by halfway through my shift. Today I feel much better, just exhausted (but I had to cancel game, that sucked).
Work: Tuesday when I was in the office there was a rather strange conversation with me and our Audit Manager. She was joking around with our new Assistant Audit Manager and me. She mentioned to the AAM that she would have to keep an eye out on our OJTT hours. OJTT is our "On the Job Training Time". Each level of ASA (Assistant State Auditor) gets you a certain amount of hours of training. You use these as a "stopgap" for when an audit is taking longer then it should because the auditor has never dealt with the circumstances. Well she mentioned to keep track of auditor OJTT such as mine OJTT. She then looked over at me and smiled. He still has 51 hours of OJTT. She then turned to me and told me I should use more of it, after all when I get promoted I will lose any remaining OJTT (and be assigned a different amount that is given to the ASA 3 position, the highest non-management auditor position). I smiled and said I would be happy to use it, except I don't want to be left without any OJTT for another year until I am promoted. She just smiled broadly at me and said "Trust me, use it quickly, you wont have to worry about being without". That got me excited, I interpret that to mean I should be getting promoted soon, that would be great (true it could also mean I am getting canned soon, but I doubt that). Oh, and two more weeks until I run my own audit from scratch. That will be awesome.
Social Life: The wife and I have been in a deep rut for several years. We have been poor starving students for so many years we couldn't do anything. Even though we are still not living in style (as soon as credit cards are paid off we will be better), we really want to start doing things (including more gaming). This has resulted in two things so far.
1. We are going to Norwescon this year. We have already paid for the membership, I am going to request the Thursday and Friday of the con off (I actually have enough vacation time I can do it, that is awesome). We have never been to a con before, so it will be our cherry popping time.
2. We are going to a SCA social meeting this Tuesday. The local Barony of Aquaterra has monthly meetings for people to get together and they recommend new people come there to ask questions. True, this may be like Bellingham and not a place I want to go. If not I am already scouting out WWII Reenactment units, and Civil War Reenactment units. Its a shame there are no Roman reenactors in the area that I know of. For the WWII Units there is a German and a Russian unit that might be cool to check out. The only problem is many of the WWII units wont let women be frontline soldiers, although the Russian Unit says clearly on their website that they have no problem (plus women did fight in the RKKA).
I am sure there is more to talk about, however this has dragged on far enough, I figured I would give everyone a taste of what we are doing.
Health: This week has sucked for my health. Monday my knees were both killing me, by Tuesday afternoon I had developed the sniffles and a small cough. By Wednesday morning I had a fever, cough and aches. Missed two days of work, and even when I went in Friday, I was wishing I had stayed home by halfway through my shift. Today I feel much better, just exhausted (but I had to cancel game, that sucked).
Work: Tuesday when I was in the office there was a rather strange conversation with me and our Audit Manager. She was joking around with our new Assistant Audit Manager and me. She mentioned to the AAM that she would have to keep an eye out on our OJTT hours. OJTT is our "On the Job Training Time". Each level of ASA (Assistant State Auditor) gets you a certain amount of hours of training. You use these as a "stopgap" for when an audit is taking longer then it should because the auditor has never dealt with the circumstances. Well she mentioned to keep track of auditor OJTT such as mine OJTT. She then looked over at me and smiled. He still has 51 hours of OJTT. She then turned to me and told me I should use more of it, after all when I get promoted I will lose any remaining OJTT (and be assigned a different amount that is given to the ASA 3 position, the highest non-management auditor position). I smiled and said I would be happy to use it, except I don't want to be left without any OJTT for another year until I am promoted. She just smiled broadly at me and said "Trust me, use it quickly, you wont have to worry about being without". That got me excited, I interpret that to mean I should be getting promoted soon, that would be great (true it could also mean I am getting canned soon, but I doubt that). Oh, and two more weeks until I run my own audit from scratch. That will be awesome.
Social Life: The wife and I have been in a deep rut for several years. We have been poor starving students for so many years we couldn't do anything. Even though we are still not living in style (as soon as credit cards are paid off we will be better), we really want to start doing things (including more gaming). This has resulted in two things so far.
1. We are going to Norwescon this year. We have already paid for the membership, I am going to request the Thursday and Friday of the con off (I actually have enough vacation time I can do it, that is awesome). We have never been to a con before, so it will be our cherry popping time.
2. We are going to a SCA social meeting this Tuesday. The local Barony of Aquaterra has monthly meetings for people to get together and they recommend new people come there to ask questions. True, this may be like Bellingham and not a place I want to go. If not I am already scouting out WWII Reenactment units, and Civil War Reenactment units. Its a shame there are no Roman reenactors in the area that I know of. For the WWII Units there is a German and a Russian unit that might be cool to check out. The only problem is many of the WWII units wont let women be frontline soldiers, although the Russian Unit says clearly on their website that they have no problem (plus women did fight in the RKKA).
I am sure there is more to talk about, however this has dragged on far enough, I figured I would give everyone a taste of what we are doing.
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