whereupon I boast of my achievements ;)
Sep. 10th, 2009 09:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
floatingleafOne thing I neglected to mention among recent turmoil is the annual A/L Ficathon over at legolasaragorn (and the corresponding Yahoo Group, Legolas_Aragorn_Slash). Which went on mostly while my laptop was officially dead back in August. But I did manage to catch up on reading most of the fics (all the good ones, anyway ;), and even participated in the guessing game. You know, matching up authors with fics/fanvids/fanart etc. And guess what? I won again. Just like last year. I only had three correct guesses this time (it wasn't as easy, since some of my fave authors from last year didn't participate this time around) - but still I won. Almost makes me feel like I'm the only one who still reads A/L.:P All the more reason to be thankful that there are some people who still write it. *clings to the few scarred veterans of a dying fandom, lol*
In other news, I did something incredibly stupid at work. I opened a spreadsheet from an email attachment, worked on it all day, and then closed it without saving. I mean, I did click 'save' after each entry I made, but I didn't save the attachment itself in a specific location - and I closed the email first, before I even started working on it, in order to have one less window cluttering my screen. I suppose I did get a message asking if I wanted to save the changes when I closed the email - but at that point I had made no changes, so I must have said no. So then, hours later, when I closed the actual spreadsheet, I got no message. And the next morning - surprise, surprise - all the work I had done was nowhere to be found. I prudently decided not to mention this to the boss, or to our department head, who had recently bestowed lavish praise upon me for my thoroughness and efficiency on this project. That was a true feat of efficiency right there. *headdesk* Just thought I'd share the accomplishment for everyone's illumination (read: don't ever try this at home, or, better still, at work ;P).
/randomness. Bedtime again.:(
legolasaragorn (and the corresponding Yahoo Group, Legolas_Aragorn_Slash). Which went on mostly while my laptop was officially dead back in August. But I did manage to catch up on reading most of the fics (all the good ones, anyway ;), and even participated in the guessing game. You know, matching up authors with fics/fanvids/fanart etc. And guess what? I won again. Just like last year. I only had three correct guesses this time (it wasn't as easy, since some of my fave authors from last year didn't participate this time around) - but still I won. Almost makes me feel like I'm the only one who still reads A/L.:P All the more reason to be thankful that there are some people who still write it. *clings to the few scarred veterans of a dying fandom, lol* In other news, I did something incredibly stupid at work. I opened a spreadsheet from an email attachment, worked on it all day, and then closed it without saving. I mean, I did click 'save' after each entry I made, but I didn't save the attachment itself in a specific location - and I closed the email first, before I even started working on it, in order to have one less window cluttering my screen. I suppose I did get a message asking if I wanted to save the changes when I closed the email - but at that point I had made no changes, so I must have said no. So then, hours later, when I closed the actual spreadsheet, I got no message. And the next morning - surprise, surprise - all the work I had done was nowhere to be found. I prudently decided not to mention this to the boss, or to our department head, who had recently bestowed lavish praise upon me for my thoroughness and efficiency on this project. That was a true feat of efficiency right there. *headdesk* Just thought I'd share the accomplishment for everyone's illumination (read: don't ever try this at home, or, better still, at work ;P).
/randomness. Bedtime again.:(
