• I do not appreciate being prompted to sign in with "new blogger" or "old blogger," as if being an "old blogger" is worse than relying entirely on cassette tapes, during a week when there are so many dirty dishes on my counter.
• My new project at work is cleaning up our mug shot/head shot computer filing system. Right now there are at least four locations to find a mug: the folder "mugs" on Server A, "mugs in use" on Server A, "mugs to tone" on Server A, or folders (with nearly but not quite identical contents) by the same name on Server B within files X and J. Example of chaos: Yesterday I found that within "mugs" is "zzServerNewsMugsToSave" and within that is another folder and within that one is a folder called "column mugs" including hundreds of photos. Of course, the system includes multiple copies of the same mug, and multiple versions in black and white, and multiple shots of the same person. The system also includes all sorts of file names. I have no idea how you would ever find what you were looking for. Examples: "PS1830 Heitter, Jane 7/17" and "Jane" and "Jane col.mugs" would likely all exist and lead to the same thing that you'd never think of. And they would all feature Jane weighing 100 pounds more with a different hair color. We are finding that we have thousands of mug shots filed away, though again there are many multiples, many old shots -- some from people who graduated the year before me when they were high school seniors.
• The rest of December will be weeks from you-know-where with early holiday print deadlines. This week we will produce four papers in five days. Next week it will be three in four days. The week after will calm down with two in four days (normally three in five), but in between at least two key people are going on vacation. So, if you are on holiday break, you'd better darn well be appreciating it. ;)