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I'm really leaning toward returning to the office within the next week or two now, an idea I was already thinking of in light of the rapidly declining daily case rates, but now also pushed by a technical issue. This issue happens at the office too, and maybe it's just my imagination, but it really feels more frequent while working from home: whenever I am using Excel, it's basically a guarantee that it will freeze up, never un-freezing, and it then locks all of my Office programs. There's nothing to be done but to force-restart the computer because not even Task Manager will open, where I could otherwise "end task" and just restart Excel without having to restart the computer. Before returning to work from home, this happened maybe three times a week on average. As I have worked from home this past month, however, it's happened on average at least once every day. For every one or two days it miraculously doesn't happen, there's another single day on which it happens two or three times. It's so crazy making that on Friday last week I actually sent IT a log of every instance of it occurring over the previous three weeks. I have little faith that they will do anything about it.
I had a brief meeting over Microsoft Teams this morning, and fucking Excel chose right when the meeting was about to start to do its "daily freeze." I had to restart the computer and was met with an email from Eric that was like, "Are you joining us?" Jesus fucking Christ! I think I was visibly frustrated when I first got on the call. I'm glad, actually, because there were only seven people on the call and two of them were in IT. Maybe if they see that my computer's problems are fucking up even my meeting attendance, then something should be done about it?
Hahaha! I'm such a dreamer.
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That's about the most notable thing for me to catch you up on today. Last night was spent watching a bunch of TV: episodes 6 and 7 of the "front half" release of 7 episodes of season four of
Ozark on Netflix; then the kind of delightful series premiere of
The Gilded Age (created and written by Julian Fellowes, who also did
Downtown Abbey) on HBO Max. I was also watching the first half of this week's episode of
Somebody Somewhere with Bridget Everett, also on HBO Max, when Shobhit told me he was ready to watch
Ozark, and then I watched the second half of
Somebody Somewhere as I was doing my exercises and getting ready for bed.
Oh, I also drove to the office to swap out paperwork. I was listening to Madonna on my AirPods when Mel, the receptionist, startled me; I thought they had gone home but was apparently mistaken. Had I known Mel would come up to me to very nicely let me know the vanilla syrup I had requested get replenished for my weekly London Fog tea lattes, I would have kept my mask on. Mel had their mask on, but then they typically had it on for weeks even before the Omicron surge. I think we were okay anyway and, again, risk was minimal.
Speaking of music, it's so nice having access to so much more music with my Apple Music subscription, I
created an "Australia" playlist. I don't even plan to return to Australia for at least another year, but I suddenly felt compelled. And I did more research then usual to create this one, as only one of the tracks there was already in my own music library. I think I'm kind of falling in love with Apple Music now, and won't likely cancel once my six-month trial period is over. I am officially a convert.
I do love that I can share a link to that playlist. It sucks though that you can only play it fully if you are also an Apple Music subscriber (this is a key difference from Spotify). Instead, you can only play previews of each track. Bummer for you I guess.
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