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I have a huge presentation today at noon, a "Lunch & Learn" during which I will demo our (*ahem!* award-winning) Intranet to the company. The thing has been up and running since December (did I mention we just won an award on it?) and it's pretty much my "baby," but people just aren't really using it like we'd hoped, so this presentation is basically our first major marketing push for this beastie — and hopefully, will decrease the number of "wait, we have an Intranet? Where is it?" comments I hear on a daily basis.

So, last night, I was at work late trying to finish the PPT for the presentation, and I realized there were some screencaptures I needed to do from home. So I went home, did more work, didn't go to Prince Caspian like I'd hoped, and tried to make it an early night to be well rested for the preso, especially since I still have to add all the new slides I made last night at home. Except of course I couldn't sleep, ended up just lying on the couch for a while, then eventually drifted off into a fitful slumber.

Do you know how in dreams, when you're trying to read something, the words never stay the same? Some people can't read in dreams at all; others (like me) can do it, but you can't go back and re-read it again the same way. I tell invisiblebf this factoid every chance that I get, and he just sighs and rolls his eyes.

Well, let me tell you, trying to add slides to a PPT during a dream does not work either. ;) I dreamed about the presentation all night long. It did not work out well between the inability to add the necessary images, PPT constantly shutting down, and various other computer issues. :) The funny thing is, I don't have any kind of phobia about public speaking. I've been looking forward to giving the presentation today! But, my dream brain apparently didn't get the memo.

I then dreamed about the new Indiana Jones movie. Hmm. I hope it doesn't suck.

Lately, I've been mulling over what little behaviors in other people I find annoying and why. I would have to say that my #1 annoyance is when people don't seem to retain the information I have given them (so it's a real blessing that I dropped out of academe or I would be irritated 24/7). :) Whether it's an inability to follow a story I'm telling, or failing to remember the relationship between key players, or just asking me repeatedly what it is I am doing Friday night, when people do this, I find myself feeling extremely irritated.

Why? One of the reasons is that I am blessed with a memory like a steel jaw trap for certain things and thus I can't imagine that other people might not be as (anal) retentive. Thus, I perceive their inattention or la-la-la flakiness as a failure to listen to me, which triggers some other hot buttons for me.

This is not a killing offense, or else toastmantom would have been dead years ago. :) However, I often find myself somewhat snarly over this sort of thing.

And what about you? Tell me all your secret irritants...

Over the weekend, a new MP3 player was purchased for me by MIB. It is a SanDisk® Sansa with 1G capacity. It's so cute and I think I can make playlists and everything. Yay!

Of course, it's enough for me just to own it — I didn't open it nor program it. Just like my Mr. Bento lunchbox.

The awesome mzsa tagged me once more to do the 10 facts/questions/habits meme. Even though I just did it and have done it like 5 other times, I thought of some good ones, so I decided to comply... but this is going to be the last time I do this meme for a long time. :) So I'm not tagging anyone back. The buck stops here!

( 10 more facts, etc. about Ace of Kittens )

That is all! Do not ask me to do this again! :)

So, I had to make a recording of myself and then I played it back to make sure everything came out ok. And I hadn't realized that I've apparently gotten in the habit of saying everything as though it were a question? Oh my god, how annoying is that? So then I was going to erase and re-record it? But then there wasn't enough time?

Just shoot me?

...Just like a LJ entry posted on a Sunday night.

Ganked from bluesilverkdg:

( Questions, questions, a meme... bla bla bla )
Though I have a lot to say about thunderstorms, it will have to wait...

I don't like memes much, but bluesilverkdg was so nice when she "tagged" me with this one, I thought I'd do it — giving everyone a breather from the ranting and whining which is the typical content of this LJ.

( 20 Random Facts About AoK )

That is all for now. I'm not going to "tag" anyone. You want to do it, go ahead! :)

I'm having very odd cravings. Yesterday, I wanted to feast on peas in the pod — snow peas, sugar peas, anything like that. Right now, I desperately want whiskey and cigarettes.

I wonder what this means...

Having spent the greater part of last week packing stuff into boxes, I think I'm ready to come to terms with a dark truth about myself -- I really love things to put other things into. Boxes, both decorative, and utilitarian. Containers with lids (plastic or otherwise). Cute little things that can be stacked. Banker's boxes with dividers, for papers and files. I love them all! (I also enjoy climbing inside them -- further evidence that I'm either part cat or all insanity.)

I tried to confess this to my mom, and she said: "I don't get it. Why do you need more things to put other things into? Why not just throw away the stuff you don't need?" This is a good question. In my mom's mind, it's all "clutter." In my mind, there's a vast difference between loose, free-range clutter and clutter lovingly arranged into boxes.

Does anyone else need help packing their stuff? ;)

The SO has bought some new gadgets. He bought a fat percentage tester and a blood pressure monitor. This is because he's obssessed with climbing mountains while dragging around a 60 pound pack.

I finally couldn't resist the lure of the BP monitor. As the SO took my BP measurement, his eyes widened. "Dear god," he said, "I think you may be dead! What the hell is wrong with you?!! Are you dead?!"

That is because my blood pressure was 87/54.

In other news, I'm going to stop posting crow tallies, because, basically, it's an anomaly these days when I don't see at least 4-5 crows, and it's getting tiresome. Although, actually, I didn't see any today, so maybe they're all off on their yearly migration to San Juan Capistrano.