Thank Godden It's Friday

[triadruid]

Five reasons to be thankful for today:

1) featherynscale got up and made biscuits and gravy this morning before I had to go to work. kittenpants even got up for B&G, and then the two of them promptly went back to sleep under the Comforter of Marshmallow Fluff (+4). MMmmmmmm, biscuits & gravy. I love my family.

2) We set out our first bin of curb-side recycling today. Yes, our area of the city started on Sept. 1st, but we lost recycled the coupon, so we had to go get the bin later. Now with 80% less trips to the recycling drop-off (glass, toner, foil, etc isn't picked up curbside).

3) Doing a quick turn around the block this morning before work, I spotted ~45 recycling bins on other people's curbs in our small subdivision, which works out to about 40-50% participation. They were expecting about 25% reduction in trash overall... so that's good, even for our little pseudo-suburb.

4) Next Monday I get to do my one-year performance evaluation. That means I've been an official City employee (non-contract) for just under a year! Thankfully, my slackitude seems to have cleared itself up finally, although I'm still manic as hell this month. Got to sleep about 3-something last night, 2-something the night before that, 1:30 or so the couple of nights before that...

5) Did I mention it's Friday? That means Games Night tonight!

::edit:: 4b) I got to learn geocoding today, which should make some of the carpooling and site stuff for Gaia Community a little easier. I think I instinctively but not explicitly knew that was what MapQuest uses, it's just good to verify. Also, I should remember this site: http://geocoder.us/

Comments

[malvito.livejournal.com]

I find it more than a little amusing that, as a City employee, your slacktitude has lessened with the passage of time; usually it's the other way around.

slackitude

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Well, in fairness, my slacking was a sort of seasonal thing: it started with being overwhelmed with life responsibilities sometime this summer, and just have had a hard time kickstarting myself since then. It seems to be getting better this week (I'm back to only goofing around when I'm waiting for something to process/print/compile, etc).

We're an office of 3-4 that handles crime prevention efforts through the entire City. We don't get a whole lot of slack. ;)

[bean-drui.livejournal.com]

dude, your icon is the shiz!

Games night?

[zylch.livejournal.com]

Perhaps I will show up for some (low-key) fun, if only to haul my ass out of the house for a while. Perhaps I will even bring some of the games I picked up at Faire...