We’re Just a Million Little Gods Causin’ Rainstorms, Turnin’ Every Good Thing to Rust

Thursday. Today has been another relatively uneventful day. I had to upload the receivables website database today, so that took up most of my morning. I have also been trying to clean up all the loose ends from my vendor database project that I stopped working on about a year ago. I was originally commissioned by the Big Boss Lady almost two years ago to collect all of the financial information, insurance information, past purchase histories, etc, of every vendor we had ever used and compile this data into one huge vendor database/filing system that would hang out with me here in Denver. So, people from all over the country sent me all of their vendor files (some better kept than others) and I began very meticulously working on this project. Let me tell you, working on this thing was so amazingly riveting that out of all of this excitement I decided to create a blog to share just how freakin' bored I was. Much to my relief, the Big Boss Lady asked me to go back into receivables work last August so the vendor database project has been sitting here collecting dust for almost a year now. I have boxes and packages of files just sitting here waiting to be keyed in, but I honestly do not have the time to dedicate to this task (nor do I want to dedicate my time to this task, although I do believe greatly in the value of the finished product). When the Big Boss Lady was in town last she advised that she would be hiring a new assistant for the department and finishing this project and maintaining this database would be one of his/her primary duties. Yeah! I'm definitely down with this development, however it means I have to get everything organized to send off when the new assistant starts. I know that doesn't sound that bad, but since people have been still sending me stuff even though I haven't been working on this project in almost a year, I've just kinda let things build up unfiled. So... I hope the new person doesn't mind a bunch of loose paperwork to have to sift through. We'll just consider it his or her "initiation rites" into the department...

Once again I am a slacker with no new music to discuss. Actually, I did try to have new music for today, but the music fairy only partially delivered so we'll just have to wait on that one. Instead, I listened to Funeral by Arcade Fire. I wanted to see if I would latch onto these guys a little bit more than last time. I gave them a favorable review, but I came away with the feeling that one has to listen to this album multiple times to truly let it sink in. So, this was one of those "multiple times." I have to say, I did enjoy it more, but I'm not up to the level of unabashed praise. Maybe next time.