A: Blah.  How’s pain in the butt project going?  I’m bored, finished up my one desk project for Rebecca.

S: Well, the aptly named project is being a pan in the butt.  I both called and emailed the guy, just waiting to hear back so I can actually do something.  I am sooooooo bored!

A: Ohhh the waiting game.  I’m playing that one as well.  Have you checked out catalog living lately?  There’s one with an orange I enjoyed.

S: Hah!  Yes, I actually did that one this morning.  I also liked the orange one—I really liked the picture also… all of that bright poppy contrast!

A: Yes it was quite visually appealing.  I’m surprised G hasn’t spilled the beans about his weekend.  He usually has something to say about it.

S: Even if it’s just that he isn’t doing anything for it.  He always seems to find that terribly important.  I don’t even know how many weekends he hasn’t left the house.

A: Maybe he did too much in Soldotna to even talk about.  I hope he was able to listen to his radio station at least.

S: Wouldn’t it be the worst if after all those phone calls he couldn’t even listen.  That would be trashy.

A: It would be tragic.

So my Dad decided to do the train ride to Seward on Saturday instead of a fish charter since the Kings are quite running yet.  We’re in Seward for 7 hours.  Do you have suggestions on things to do?  We’re going to the SeaLife Center since neither of us have been to it but that won’t take 7 hours.  Also thinking about hiking around exit glacier if it’s within walking distance of the rail road.

S: First, eat delicious food.  There are a bunch of waterfalls and the beach.  I’m not sure if they are a walkable distance—I always have a car there, but they are pretty close to town.  Walk around the harbor. 

A: Which restaurants are your favorites there?
S: Honestly they’re all pretty good.  Rays and Chinooks are good restaurants, and I really like Marina for just fish and chips.  If you leave the main boardwalk and go into the actual town of Seward there are a bunch of little shops and stuff that could be fun.  I’ve never really looked.

S: I feel really intelligent…. Slash not.  Totally realized why my pdfs were printing wrong:

Whoops.

A: So I had a similar issue myself.  Sometime in my beginning days the check box right about yours was checked.  Print PDF to file.  Every time I tried to print nothing happened.  I finally got Courtney over and she just unchecked the box.  Boy did I feel dumb.

S: It took me 1:52 to scroll through this entire email.  That’s pretty cool.

Also, what the gossip?!  Was it G who gasped loudly and looked around for someone to talk to about it?  Did you know she was leaving?

A: I heard the scrolling of the mouse and was curious as to what was going on over there on your side of the cubicle.

I did hear G gasp loudly and look furiously to A for some sort of information.  I too am curious.  I knew she was always interested in finding a different job that did more design work since that’s what she was originally hired on for.  I hope that’s the case that she found another job as opposed to the alternative.

S: Seriously.  Also, that silly little wall makes me miss out on all the best gossip.  Super lame.

A: So did you hear what just went on during the whisper hush conversation?  What I got from it is that they had to let her go because there wasn’t enough healthcare projects coming in.  A said it was a good thing for k since she wasn’t too happy with the sales position.

S: No, I could barely tell that anyone was whispering, let alone what they were saying.

Yikes!!  I really hope she finds something even better then.

A: Yeah I really had to strain my ears to hear.  I didn’t want to seem overly eager or too intrusive.  I hope she finds something better as well.

S: Yes, he really can’t help it, can he.

A: No he can’t.

Holy mis-specs.  I don’t know what happened to me this year!  I don’t like it.

S: Well I was reading through, it looks like mostly one big project for you and C that just died.

A: Yeah I see that.  It was from 2009 when I first started.  I’m not sure who’s error it is.  But I had no idea that project had any problems.  I love how no one tells me anything.  How can I learn from mistakes if no one talks to me about them?

S: They are seriously totally terrible.  We should bring that up on Monday, just for them to let us know when things go wrong so we can learn from it.

A: Well I emailed C about it.  He said it was his fault – he selected the finishes and some of the unit assemblies came in the wrong finishes.  He said it was year-end and didn’t follow the proper procedures. 
S: Yikes.  At least he is good about owning up to things.  But if that isn’t proof that we need to stamp things off, I don’t know what is.