The elevator ride up to the 14th floor just stopped at floor 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, and 11. The one other man going to my floor, after everyone else had exited, looked at me and said, "Looks like we're really on the local today," to which I replied, "Absolutely," with a little chuckle. I do love subway-related humor.
I have not written an entry in some time of which I am particularly proud. I think this is because I am once again in a bit of a rut. I fall into ruts awfully quickly, it seems -- more than a week or two doing the same thing, holding the same job, going the same places, and my brain starts to tarnish, grow dull. I seem doomed to require a constant circus to be content.
As tedious as some of the projects I am working on seem to be, I do take great pride in the fact that nobody else is working on as many of them at once. Somewhere along the way I developed a great knack for multitasking: I can add Client Content to a template, create new sections for the Client Management area, update Dealer Management, create 550 (yes, 550) new buttons using the "sky" palette (as opposed to "slate"), make new popups for the User Entitlements, check my email, and write an entry. I think it may have something to do with the fact that I have spent several years honing my ability to carry on upwards of 8 conversations at once via the miracles of AIM. Clicking back and forth between all those tiny windows and coming up with something witty to say in all of them is taxing, certainly, but apparently also useful.
I suppose I shall have to find an adventure of some kind. I am flying back to Colorado this weekend for a brief "Happy Birthday Mom" visit, and while it will be fantastically nice to get out of the city for a few days, I already know that more than 12 hours of Colorado air leaves me gasping for the rarefied realms of New York. So perhaps that will not quite do for the life-affirming adventure I am looking for. Does anyone have any ideas?