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In fact, I have been to the gym, where Emilie and I did a bunch of stuff, including her doing massage that helped, or was meant to help, various sore bits. That includes the wrist which was hurting last night and the night before; it's been okay today, but when I described the situation she offered to look at it.
Other than that, I did a little cardio, and we did a bunch of familiar stuff, including refreshers on both of last week's new things; a thing that's supposed to help my back muscles, by sort of squeezing them toward each other; and a triceps exercise. The right shoulder was tensing up more than usual; after a little while I realized that this might be because I was mousing right-handed for a change.
At work, we have now been shown how the new system for tracking time off and a few other things (like keeping addresses and lists of dependents/beneficiaries up to date) works/will work. One more paper timesheet, on the 15th, and then it should be electronic. The site has an "upcoming events" spot, so I now know that we will be getting flu shots at the office again, this year on October 20. Not being in a high-risk group, I can wait that long (I could have it at my choice of drug store chains right away, if I was willing to spend $25-30).
We also got to play a little with the new content management system. It is slow and poorly designed, in ways including pointless nested folders that we'll have to click through. The developers have been told already that this is annoying and pointless, but apparently aren't budgeable. (Basically, our books all have codes of the form nnnZZ, where ZZ is a postal code for a state, and nnn is a pretty arbitrary number, such that we don't reuse codes. Since there is a science book coded 148NY, any math, language arts, or social studies book for New York—or new science book—must get some other number.) Each book can also be referred to by content, state, and grade level: for example, "New York eighth grade science." This is useful for a lot of things, but not unique; for various reasons, including changes to standards, we replace books periodically. We're doing fifth grade science for Texas this coming year; one of my first projects there was a fifth grade book for Texas. In order to get at the files for 148NY, I will need to go to the folder called 148NY. It will contain a single folder, called "science." That in turn will contain a single folder called "grade 8." Or maybe it's the other order. In that third folder will be the actual files that a person can work with. There's no way to bypass that series of folders. Feh.
Other than that, I did a little cardio, and we did a bunch of familiar stuff, including refreshers on both of last week's new things; a thing that's supposed to help my back muscles, by sort of squeezing them toward each other; and a triceps exercise. The right shoulder was tensing up more than usual; after a little while I realized that this might be because I was mousing right-handed for a change.
At work, we have now been shown how the new system for tracking time off and a few other things (like keeping addresses and lists of dependents/beneficiaries up to date) works/will work. One more paper timesheet, on the 15th, and then it should be electronic. The site has an "upcoming events" spot, so I now know that we will be getting flu shots at the office again, this year on October 20. Not being in a high-risk group, I can wait that long (I could have it at my choice of drug store chains right away, if I was willing to spend $25-30).
We also got to play a little with the new content management system. It is slow and poorly designed, in ways including pointless nested folders that we'll have to click through. The developers have been told already that this is annoying and pointless, but apparently aren't budgeable. (Basically, our books all have codes of the form nnnZZ, where ZZ is a postal code for a state, and nnn is a pretty arbitrary number, such that we don't reuse codes. Since there is a science book coded 148NY, any math, language arts, or social studies book for New York—or new science book—must get some other number.) Each book can also be referred to by content, state, and grade level: for example, "New York eighth grade science." This is useful for a lot of things, but not unique; for various reasons, including changes to standards, we replace books periodically. We're doing fifth grade science for Texas this coming year; one of my first projects there was a fifth grade book for Texas. In order to get at the files for 148NY, I will need to go to the folder called 148NY. It will contain a single folder, called "science." That in turn will contain a single folder called "grade 8." Or maybe it's the other order. In that third folder will be the actual files that a person can work with. There's no way to bypass that series of folders. Feh.
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