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Playoffs, week two.
Apr. 18th, 2008 10:57 pmTonight was the second week of playoffs for the bowling league. My team was fourth out of 12 teams in the consolation round going into tonight, with the top seven moving on to the finals next Friday. We managed to hold on to fourth place despite Mario and I both having subpar third games (I had four splits, and he just kept missing spares he would normally get), but Ralph had a good night, Bridgette had two good games, and Matthew (filling in for Randy, who hurt his wrist in a fall this week - I swear, I'm buying him a huge roll of bubble wrap for his birthday) held up his end of things.
My scores for the night: 179, 180, 132.
The painful part is that the top three get trophies... and we missed third place by nine pins. If just one of my splits in that third game had been something spareable instead, or if Mario hadn't missed the 7-pin in the tenth, we probably would have been third. Argh.
Apart from bowling, today was a long day as we were moving our office to the back room of the computer store my boss' business partner operates. Technically, we still had a couple of weeks to get out of the building, but for some reason my boss decided he wanted to do it today. I managed to get into the office about an hour and a half earlier than usual, and helped carry things (mostly monitors, about ten of them) out to Zak's car, and then carried them into the store. It didn't take too long to get everything set up, and I was working by about 1. Everything was going swimmingly until Roman (my boss' partner) came in and started rummaging through some of our boxes, and found a mouse - it was then I realized that I had connected the wrong mouse to my computer. Not that it mattered particularly, but the one I was using was aggravating me because my pointer would suddenly jump to my second monitor for no apparent reason. So I pulled the box out from under my desk to change the mouse, and the power cord became disconnected. *headdesk*
I never was able to get Visual Studio to open again (I've been getting a lot of timeouts trying to connect to the server lately), so the last thing I had to change for the bug I was working on will have to wait until Monday. I'm having fun replacing masked edit controls with regular text boxes and adding custom validation, because for some reason, Safari - the Mac browser - doesn't get along with masked edit controls. (A masked edit control is like a text box, only it includes formatting information - so if the text box is supposed to contain a phone number, it inserts the brackets and dashes, and then strips them out when it sends the value back to the program for validation. Or if you're entering a postal code, it formats it in two groups of three characters. Very useful... unless you're using a Mac.)
It may still not be perfect, as I'm having to run the Windows version of Safari to test my changes, as I have no access to a Mac.
The really fun part? We get to move everything again at the end of June. It's going to be an interesting few months, because some of the people who work at the store are - not to put too fine a point on it - somewhat crude in their humour and some of their attitudes. This is the only place I've ever worked where sexist jokes are de rigeur. But that's okay. I'm not called the Queen Of TMI for nothing - I'll get them, even if it means having to make something up...
I'm a little annoyed that I kept forgetting to call and make a hairdressing appointment all week. I'm starting to look like I've stuck my finger in an electrical socket, and I actually have all day tomorrow free, so it would have been a good time to get my hair cut. *sigh*
My scores for the night: 179, 180, 132.
The painful part is that the top three get trophies... and we missed third place by nine pins. If just one of my splits in that third game had been something spareable instead, or if Mario hadn't missed the 7-pin in the tenth, we probably would have been third. Argh.
Apart from bowling, today was a long day as we were moving our office to the back room of the computer store my boss' business partner operates. Technically, we still had a couple of weeks to get out of the building, but for some reason my boss decided he wanted to do it today. I managed to get into the office about an hour and a half earlier than usual, and helped carry things (mostly monitors, about ten of them) out to Zak's car, and then carried them into the store. It didn't take too long to get everything set up, and I was working by about 1. Everything was going swimmingly until Roman (my boss' partner) came in and started rummaging through some of our boxes, and found a mouse - it was then I realized that I had connected the wrong mouse to my computer. Not that it mattered particularly, but the one I was using was aggravating me because my pointer would suddenly jump to my second monitor for no apparent reason. So I pulled the box out from under my desk to change the mouse, and the power cord became disconnected. *headdesk*
I never was able to get Visual Studio to open again (I've been getting a lot of timeouts trying to connect to the server lately), so the last thing I had to change for the bug I was working on will have to wait until Monday. I'm having fun replacing masked edit controls with regular text boxes and adding custom validation, because for some reason, Safari - the Mac browser - doesn't get along with masked edit controls. (A masked edit control is like a text box, only it includes formatting information - so if the text box is supposed to contain a phone number, it inserts the brackets and dashes, and then strips them out when it sends the value back to the program for validation. Or if you're entering a postal code, it formats it in two groups of three characters. Very useful... unless you're using a Mac.)
It may still not be perfect, as I'm having to run the Windows version of Safari to test my changes, as I have no access to a Mac.
The really fun part? We get to move everything again at the end of June. It's going to be an interesting few months, because some of the people who work at the store are - not to put too fine a point on it - somewhat crude in their humour and some of their attitudes. This is the only place I've ever worked where sexist jokes are de rigeur. But that's okay. I'm not called the Queen Of TMI for nothing - I'll get them, even if it means having to make something up...
I'm a little annoyed that I kept forgetting to call and make a hairdressing appointment all week. I'm starting to look like I've stuck my finger in an electrical socket, and I actually have all day tomorrow free, so it would have been a good time to get my hair cut. *sigh*
