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Work Report - Mike Crowl focuses on jobs and work and anything connected to the two.
Mike blogs in two places on Orble, and two on Blogger. His wife thinks he writes too much.
September 24th 2008 05:55
Reading ought to be work. That's what a number of people complaining about the way we read on the Internet as compared to the way we read text in any other format seem to be saying. For some reason they delight in blaming Google for this, as though Google had suddenly invented a way of reading that was counter to the norm.
But I don't think they're telling us anything we don't already know. In discussions with a number of people over the years, I don't find that anyone reads anything that requires serious attention online; if you want to understand it properly, you tend to copy it out on an old-fashioned piece of paper (or several) and read it away from the screen
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September 23rd 2008 07:55
Whether it's just that I've been rehearsing, and then performing, in a play as well as working for the last several weeks, or whether it's some other kind of tiredness, I'm not sure. But I certainly feel as though I could do with a holiday. Brazil vacation packages look nice, for one, except I don't have the cash - or the time; can't see the boss letting me off work for more than a few days. We discussed this today, in fact, and it looks as though I'll be able to have half of next Wednesday off as well as all Thursday and Friday. Must say that sounds good, short and all as it is.
I can't get all Wednesday off because both the bosses are off to Wellington for the Presbyterian General Assembly, the big occasion that occurs every two years, and requires a heap of work from everyone concerned. We're in the process of trying to put together a pamphlet talking about what we do: it's been the cause of some friction in the office over the last couple of days. But again, I think that can be put down to general tiredness all round. It's been a tougher year than any of us anticipated. I won't go into details, but the stress levels have been high - not so much for me, but certainly for the other two on the team.
I thought I might have left stress behind when I finished at the bookshop, but obviously it's a fact of life
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September 22nd 2008 07:53
There hasn't been anything in here for virtually a fortnight, because I've been either rehearsing most nights for a play, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, or performing in it (as from last Wednesday).
The rehearsals were tough, especially in the latter stages, when we had one marathon seven-hour stint (during all of which time I was inside my Mouse costume, an all-encompassing thing with an obligatory tail). But once we got past the rehearsal period, and had pretty solved all of our problems with the slightly intractable set, we were on our way, and the performances have been good, and not plagued by anything except minor incidents
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When I came to this job, one of the people I was glad to renew acquaintance with was Malcolm Gordon. I’ve seen him once before in my old shop, but otherwise hadn’t seen him since he was a child of eleven or twelve. At that time he and one of my sons performed, along with three other children, in a series of very short television skits made for the children’s programme, What Now? This programme is still going, I think, more than a decade later. (I wrote in another post that it was Spot On that he was in, but I don’t think Spot On was still running when my son was 11 or 12.)
Malcolm is in the process of becoming a Presbyterian minister, but he also finds time to write songs and perform them, and his first album (think it’s his first) has not long come out. (He also got married around the same time – just to keep himself occupied
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The printer we’ve had since before I arrived on the scene is a great lumpy thing that takes minutes to load itself up when it’s about to print, although it copes with straight black text fairly well once it's actually going.
But add in colour, and it’s like the end of the world has come: it has to grind and heave and rumble inside before it’ll produce anything. This is in part because it has four cylinders (three colour, one black) and each of these has got to come into play before anything with colour can be produced.
I’m told by the IT guy who looks after our computer gear and such, that it’s an outmoded approach to colour printing. We can only agree
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