Squeeeee

Beloved!Boss has been named Roving Ambassador für Southern Caucasia!
That means he's posted in Vienna (i.e. just basic salary), BUT there'll be some travelling involved, plus it means a few steps up again on the career ladder.
I'm very, very happy for him :-)

And loud squeeeeeee!!!!!!!!s of thanks to dickgloucester, scatteredlogic, averygoodun, morethansiriusand shiv5468for the hearts you sent me! Thank you! (((hugs)))

Spam -- Small things that drive me crazy

Almost inaudible, not-supposed-to-be-there noises emitted by some electronic device, which is difficult/impossible to locate because I can't determine whether the noise is high-volume and comes from far away or low-volume and close.

Discovering Irene standing motionlessly just outside my open office door, because she doesn't want to disturb me.

The paper slips around rolls of dustbin liners -- if you try to tear them off by unrolling the bags, you'll ruin at lest three bags; if you try to get rid of them by tearing them apart, you'll have a minimum of 15 tiny, sticky shreds

Transferring cut-up chives from the cutting board into any kind of container. The bastards behave like quicksilver.

People not understanding that if a mail is forwarded to them and they click "answer", the answer will not be sent to the original sender but the one who forwarded the mail


The Austrian writer Heimito von Doderer posited in one of his books (Die Merowinger oder die totale Familie) that things like the abovementioned paper slips are produced by a London-based company called Hulesch & Quenzel, which has specialized in designing things that drive people crazy. Like for example extremely bouncy screw tops for bottles, toothpaste etc., which will slip from your hand and automatically roll into the darkest, most-difficult-to-reach corner of the room. Or artificial pocket-scrum (my translation, the German name is "künstlicher Taschen-Grus") -- put the tiniest quantity in a pocket, and the person inserting his or her hand will have dirty fingernails for weeks.
I guess they also engineer those tiny electronic sounds.
Not sure about the chives...