Geeky Cat Miusings

My boss decided that I needed a whiteboard on my wall so that everyone in the office can keep track of my projects and see what my work load is like, so we ordered a medium whiteboard and it arrived in my office in just two days! Then I placed a request for Facilities Management to hang the whiteboard in my office and three days later a handyman arrived with a power drill in hand. While he worked in my office we discussed travelling to work and the amount of time it took us by bus and car and other miscellaneous details about commuting. The fellow lived outside the city and so he drives along a stretch of the country in his commute between home and work. He was excited when he described seeing the wildlife every morning during his commute and said he knew where to look for deer and other critters because they have their favorite grazing areas and tend to be there. His eyes lighted up when he recalled how one day he saw a wild turkey. I thought that’s cool — he was just a wildlife lover — much like I am. So I was feeling all warm and fuzzy thinking about the shared enjoyment of feeling towards the wild turkey who was on the road close to Toronto. I was jarred out of my warm feeling when he said “damn I wish I had my shotgun with me — I could have had me some wild turkey for dinner”. No more happy warm thoughts in my little head.

But my whiteboard was placed on my wall and I’m ready to get to work.

What is the first thing to go up on my whiteboard? A smiley face, of course. Always make sure there is something happy in your office, so, if you do nothing else, do put up a smiley face. When I look at my whiteboard with its long list of things to do I first look at the smiley face that reminds me that out there somewhere is someone with a smiley face…even if no one is smiling in my office. Except for the ever smiling smiley face, of course.

Every day I am updating my whiteboard list so that it is current — and at least people have something to read when they come into my office. I think I’ll try to fit in a joke of the day, but I’ll have to write smaller to squeeze it in.

Another whiteboard story: my boss and co-worker were meeting with me in my office and my boss commented that she smelled nail polish. She goes out in the hall way and tells the staff to put the nail polish away because it was smelling up the office (no mention that doing the nails is not appropriate on company time). Then she returns to my office and says that the smell is coming from my office. Well, I haven’t done my nails in weeks and I haven’t been putting any nailpolish to stop the run in my nylons either, so she got me. Finally (I’m a bit slow) I realized what she was smelling was the markers for my whiteboard. Mystery solved. At least I know how to cover up my tracks if I do decide to paint my nails at work