Tuesday, May 14, 2002. Entry #150

I think my stomach is expanding.

It used to be that I would get hungry around 11:30, have my lunch around 11:45, and then be good until I get home. The last couple weeks I've got the loud growlies around3 in the afternoon.

As I never have money on me, I'm stuck. The cafeteria doesn't take my magic money card (and closes at 3 anyway), and there are no food stores for miles. There's a strange little café across the road, but no one here has ever been to it, or knows anything about it.

Growl.

I'm teaching myself how to use Microsoft Visio.

Trying to anyway.

We're planning some site reorganization and they use Visio around here to do that sort of thing. I've never used the program before, but I figured how hard could it be?

Stupid program.

I hate programs that assume you have a certain amount of base knowledge before you start working with them. I'm a pretty smart guy, but once in a while a tutorial would be nice.

I load up the 'Conceptual Web Site template' and it hands me a blank page with a bunch of drag-on icons and no explanation anywhere of what exactly it had in mind for those icons.

The 'floating help text' is really helpful too. You hold the mouse over the 'For creation' icon and a little message pops up telling you this icon 'Represents pages to be created'.

Wow. Intuitive. This is a conceptual web site design. All the pages are 'to be created'.

I'd like to think the basics are covered in the manual, but it's not like there are any manuals for this just lying around the office. I'm sure IT has a big vault of useful manuals.

What fun!

It's kind of interesting how I got the program. I asked for it to be installed a couple weeks ago, and I hadn't heard anything back since. My boss asked how things were going and I mentioned I didn't have the software yet.

He expressed surprise, and I offhandedly mentioned that if they had installed it, I was not aware. We went to look and sure enough, there it was. Hidden away in a subdirectory.

IT ninjas indeed.

On Roger Ebert: Ebert's review of Attack of the Clones came out today, and he gave it a whopping 2 out of 4. I'm hoping I get to post another 'Roger Ebert is an Idiot' entry next week.

On Buffy: I missed last week's episode (Wah!) but I've seen little bits of recap since then. Looks like my prediction was true about which one of the Scoobies bites it. Sigh. I liked her.

On Angel: Holtz wants Angel to care for Connor/Stephen! Angel not killing Holtz! Grue being smart enough to insert sub-text into a conversation! Surprises all around!

One Year Ago: The hiatus continues. I was probably working on my sulk.

Mom Rating: 2 out of 5. Mom probably thinks this is a waste of a milestone entry. Number #150! Woo hoo!

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