Work Events, Weekend Study

[robotech_master]

Well, today I got some good news in the job front. My boss is planning to move us to an office in the Hammons Tower, the tallest building in Springfield at about 24 stories. (Yeah, Springfield is basically flat as a pancake...) It's also the "tallest structure above sea level" in Missouri, which sounds to me kind of like they're reaching for a record there any way they can get it. The office should be a lot nicer than the one we're in right now, and the location should be prestigious enough to make a good impression on prospective clients. It has some nice facilities associated with it, too—fitness center in the basement, free shuttle bus to downtown restaurants, etc. As an added benefit, it's only 2 miles from my apartment instead of the 3 our current office is, plus I'll only need to catch one bus instead of two (and it's even on my side of the busy street instead of across it). Should make the move sometime in May or June, and I'm really excited about it.

I'm also excited about the fact that my boss was talking about giving me a raise at some point. Not so much for the additional money, which is definitely going to be nice, but for what it says about how my boss feels about my work. I had been kind of living in fear that I wasn't doing enough, that my boss wasn't happy with what I've been doing. I'm fundamentally lazy, you know, and all I do at work all day is sit around reading blogs and things on the Internet when there aren't any support tickets. But the fact that he was offhandedly talking about giving me a raise, because I hadn't gotten one since I started working there last July, tells me that he likes the way I've been doing my job. And I've suddenly started breathing a whole lot easier.

At the moment, I'm enjoying the last beer I will get to drink until Monday; Friday evening I go in for the first of four weekends to be spent in lockdown at the medical study center, helping to study the effects of different time-release forms of the muscle relaxant Carisoprodol. I can't have any alcohol or caffeine from this evening until it ends Monday morning. Hopefully, hopefully this study will be less mind-numbingly boring than the last one I chronicled; my brother has borrowed a five-point-something-gigahertz wireless Internet receiver from a friend who has wireless Internet equipment on cell towers in the area. The only thing is we're not sure we can get line of sight from the study facility, which is in kind of a valley. He's supposed to be checking on that today. If he can get signal ("Main screen turn on"), then I'm gonna be packing up and taking my full-sized Windows desktop computer with which to play City of Heroes all weekend. Oh, if only the Internet connection thing works out! City of Heroes all weekend, with no responsibility for having to feed myself, would be heaven, even if it had to be interrupted every 30 minutes for a blood sample.

Well, we'll see what happens.

Comments

[strix-an-stones.livejournal.com]

Cool! Carisprodol is the generic name of Soma, I have that from the wreck. All it will do is make you sleepy. One of the worst side effects is waking up dry mouthed with a nasty headache. Fair warning ;)

[robotech-master.livejournal.com]

I don't think I'm going to be taking enough of it to worry too much about side-effects. The way these things work is that they use you as a blood-sample-machine—feed you the drug, then take a sample every half hour or so so they can see how it degrades over time. They want to see how effective various time-release forms of the drug are so that maybe people won't have to take the pills quite so often.

[strix-an-stones.livejournal.com]

Huh. Well I still hope you don't have side effects, I am on the lowest dose going and I still get them. However, if this test is for a new version that works without the hangover feeling - sign me up. It really is mild, valerian makes you even sleepier. Soma is pretty mild so it shouldn't be too bad.

[alfvaen]

So does that mean that there's a taller building in Missouri, but it happens to be below sea level?

[robotech-master.livejournal.com]

Or else a taller building that is closer to sea level than Springfield. The Ozarks, being an old, worn-down mountain range, are pretty high above sea level. So, if that building is taller than any other in the state, it's only because it stands on the shoulders of giants, as it were.