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Jul. 26th, 2003 07:47 pmBolt's mad at me. We did another round of flavor injections and the drip stopped a couple of times, which meant I needed to move the needle around a bit to get the flow going again. Boy, did he not like that shit at all. He's going to have to though; I found a deal online for 12 1-liter bags of fluid (or enough for the next 2 years, if we stay at every other week) for cheap (no it wasn't eBay).
I went to the stoopid training today. It got out at 4, which was nice- two hours early. They're going from a Word-based entry form to a web-based one. This should run a lot smoother, and be faster once everyone gets the hang of it. However they rushed through the training, which was fine for me since I am very comfortable surfing the interweb and all. I could see many of my older and/or less computer literate co-workers (the ones that don't have a computer at home, and their only exposure to one is the Word-based entry form) struggling, and when it comes to showtime the wheels are gonna come off, as my dad would say. They're going live with this new thing on September 1, a time when our call volume tends to increase sharply as kids return to school. I was briefly worried about my stats going down while I re-train the muscles, but after I thought about it I think I'm going to be one of their lesser problems. It's going to be a huge train wreck.
Anyway, after that we went to an Asian supermarket and hub got a Chinese Chess set. We also found a freaking giganto bag of dried shitake mushrooms for $4. Hell, the teeny bags of dried ones cost more than that at the local grocery, and contain maybe 1/6 as much! Hub suspects they're grown on straw instead of wood which doesn't take as long but may make them blander. Well, we'll find out.
We then went to Korea House, a restaurant I haven't been to for 6-7 years. I got the Be bim kook soo, I think, basically beef and veggies and sesame seeds with noodles. The flavor was barely sweet and terrific. Hub got bulgoki, which was spiced just heavily enough to make his nose run but still not enough to crowd out the flavor of the food. Included were the many tiny things, little dishes of honeyed soy beans, broccoli, peppery cucumbers, and various other things that were quite delicious. Oh, except for the kim-chee. It looked horrible, and something from my distant past begged me to stay away. But I hated to see it sitting there untasted, so I tried a bit. It was as foul and awful as I feared. No more kim-chee for mee.
I went to the stoopid training today. It got out at 4, which was nice- two hours early. They're going from a Word-based entry form to a web-based one. This should run a lot smoother, and be faster once everyone gets the hang of it. However they rushed through the training, which was fine for me since I am very comfortable surfing the interweb and all. I could see many of my older and/or less computer literate co-workers (the ones that don't have a computer at home, and their only exposure to one is the Word-based entry form) struggling, and when it comes to showtime the wheels are gonna come off, as my dad would say. They're going live with this new thing on September 1, a time when our call volume tends to increase sharply as kids return to school. I was briefly worried about my stats going down while I re-train the muscles, but after I thought about it I think I'm going to be one of their lesser problems. It's going to be a huge train wreck.
Anyway, after that we went to an Asian supermarket and hub got a Chinese Chess set. We also found a freaking giganto bag of dried shitake mushrooms for $4. Hell, the teeny bags of dried ones cost more than that at the local grocery, and contain maybe 1/6 as much! Hub suspects they're grown on straw instead of wood which doesn't take as long but may make them blander. Well, we'll find out.
We then went to Korea House, a restaurant I haven't been to for 6-7 years. I got the Be bim kook soo, I think, basically beef and veggies and sesame seeds with noodles. The flavor was barely sweet and terrific. Hub got bulgoki, which was spiced just heavily enough to make his nose run but still not enough to crowd out the flavor of the food. Included were the many tiny things, little dishes of honeyed soy beans, broccoli, peppery cucumbers, and various other things that were quite delicious. Oh, except for the kim-chee. It looked horrible, and something from my distant past begged me to stay away. But I hated to see it sitting there untasted, so I tried a bit. It was as foul and awful as I feared. No more kim-chee for mee.
