Incessant Expressions

So, this week begins my third week working from home and I’ve now gotten accustomed to the boringness and blandness of only leaving the house after 7PM EDT. I have my little routine of working and taking a lot more breaks in order to stretch and go outside to see if it’s daylight or not or to do chores around the house. At least now our apartment stays rather clean since I end up having a bit of free time during my work day.

This week also marks me getting a raise at work which is definitely going to help in the long run. While I may not like everything about my job — especially just about everything I have to deal with concerning spam — this bump in pay will help me forget about the horror of filling out the same Yahoo email deferment form 10 times a day. A coworker of mine is also finally helping me, and the rest of my department, embrace automation by getting tools and scripts in place that I’ve been asking to have for months. In the past, the abuse department of my company only had two or three real employees however, now we’ve got almost 10 to replace those same two or three people. While it amazes me that we need 2 to 3 times more people to do the same amount of work, things are getting done more quickly and slightly more efficiently since we do have people working around the clock versus 9AM till around 2AM. With more people working graveyard, it definitely helps us communicate effectively with providers many timezones ahead of us. My coworker and myself are the only two people in the department that want to do things quickly and efficiently versus everyone else who just wants to drag their feet and do everything by hand. We’re writing scripts and form letters so people can easily automate the dull task of emailing people because they’re sending 20,000 emails to Hotmail when they shouldn’t be.

Which brings me to my next point: reading. I’ve been doing a lot of it lately. More online than off and I’m getting tired of staring at my monitor all day, I just want to dive into my books. I’ve put off reading Satan by Jeffrey Burton Russell in favor of Learning Python

Does anyone know of any good plugins/widgets for WordPress for listing what books you’re reading? There’s only two listed at wordpress.org that I’m able to find. One has not been updated since mid 2006 (and according to the author’s site, was never released) and the other is even older than that.

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