Halloween planning, eyes burning

Had an impromptu meeting about the Little Five Points Halloween Parade last night at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club and my eyes and sinuses are still burning from the smoke.

The Perfect B Movie

Monster and I enjoyed the living room debut of his new copy of The Horror of Party Beach, restored by Dark Sky Films and released on DVD as a double feature with The Curse of the Living Corpse.

The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra does not seem so much like a spoof of the genre now. This is just as cheesy, with idiotic dialog, cartoonish monster costumes, and lots of slightly dressed dizzy girls and heroic men of science. But it also has some great stuff like The Del-Aires playing a rocking soundtrack and leather jacket wearing bikers kicking sand in the face of boys at the beach party just before launching into a silly acrobatic choreograph fight scene.

veiled threat?

I really think my co-worker The Irritant needs killin' - or, at least, I need to get out of this job ASAP and hope they don't hire a female to take my place.

Friday, he was in my office doing nothing but taking up space and makes the comment about how work "sure has been spurty here lately". And it was just the way he said it. Made the words sound vulgar somehow. And proceeds to spend as much time in my office too physically close and extremely annoying.

I left early, again, like I've done nearly every day this week. There's not enough to keep my busy all day anyway, and after everyone else leaves, it's just me and him there.

Monster thinks there's no threat to him and that he's just being a jerk. Boss #1 doesn't see why this makes me uncomfortable, like I'm a wimp to let it bother me.

Victory

So, I tuned up all of the security preferences on the browsers on my computer before I left work yesterday. I also created a new home page with a message on it to open with every new browser window. It just says "This computer is for use by
the art department. Use your own computer for surfing and stay off of mine!!!".

When I got to work this morning, the sound was still off.

Someone had opened Internet Explorer on my machine but there was nothing other than the home page I created in the History file.

more porn on my machine this morning

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The Prestige

Looks like this will be a great film to see.

and again

This morning I get to work and the sound (which I usually keep mute) is up all the way and once again, someone has used Internet Explorer on my computer to to to a several locations on breakthru.com, whatever that is. I am not going to look. If you want to check it out for me and let me know, that's fine.

Again

Someone has been porn-surfing on my computer using Internet Explorer. And it could only have been The Irritant.

My boss still isn't here today.

Boss #2 doesn't even come in every day and Boss #1 will often come in late and leave before 3:00PM.

Someone's been sitting in my chair.

So I get to work this morning and start up my Mac. I look in the Recent Items menu and see that someone has been using Internet Explorer on my machine. I open IE and pull up th history menu and see a long list of sites like "amateursex" and "adult dating". The only person here when I left yesterday was The Irritant. The only person in the front office area when I arrived this morning was The Irritant.

Will this ever end???

one of those days

This is the sort of day that makes me really want to quit my job. If it weren't for the need of a steady paycheck, I'd be tempted to clock out and never return.

I love the look of this

I found these listed on FUNFURDE. These very organic lights look like jellyfish.

clairvoyant

The Irritant has instructed me to change the corporate colors used for one client to something no appearing on any of the previous files from them, citing previous job numbers that the billing is based on. These are numbers that often are remnants from completely different jobs that someone plucks from the system as a shortcut to billing.
However, the previous published graphics and logo files are irrelevant to him.

That and the fact that he insisted on my logging into the network from my machine while he watched my hands, not the screen, have been the top annoyance today, beating out having only three working jobs to occupy my time for about five minutes each.

cold cereal for lunch

There is nothing to do here and I refuse to clock out early today, as I am not a part time employee or an independent contractor who is free to pursue several clients at once. No lunch budget either for a while because I have spent way too much on my car and condo recently. Choosing to cut corners on the things that give me the least pleasure. It's not all gloom, though. My mother and sister-in-law are taking me out to a girls-night of theatre later in the week and there's a birthday party this weekend.

Found this on Apartment Therapy.

Egg-less Caesar Dressing

1 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
1/2 corn oil, or other mild oil such as canola or safflower
1/4 cup lemon juice
7 anchovy filets
3 cloves garlic
2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
2 tablespoons sherry vinegar
1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoons kosher salt
1 teaspoon ground black pepper

In a blender, puree all ingredients until emulsified and refrigerate. Toss liberally with romaine lettuce, croutons and additional Parmesan.

disappearing WO's

So Friday, I left a group of papers to be proofread so I could send them on to clients. It's noon and I've not seen any of those proofs back yet. There is one job with no instructions sitting on my shelf and I'm sitting here with nothing on the first day of Boss#1's vacation. I hope this isn't how the rest of the week is going to work out.