Im Going Deeper Underground

Time to clock out.

Its Wednesday, so all you dodgeball users out there prepare for a few check-ins from me. Right now I'm leaving work for the Beanery, then off to Royal Oak with the usual gang.

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Learn how to do pen tricks.

The site gives a tutorial on performing six common pen tricks. Impress your coworkers and classmates. I used to stare intently at this one classmate in statistics who would pull off this spin. I never could replicate it, but now I have help.

Thanks to lifehacker

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Well, if I can't run any of my favorite desktop customizations (Pluck, Gmail Notifier, Konfabulator) at work, I guess the next best thing is Active Desktop.

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So if I forget to clock my hours by 8AM for the previous day, I receive an email reminding me to do so. When I got back from lunch I realized that I didn't clock yesterdays hours and wondered why I hadn't received an email warning.

Thats when I realized I never opened Lotus Notes (our mail program) this morning. Now I usually run it as soon as I get in, but I'm prone to forgetting within the first hour. I believe 5 hours is a new record. Of course when I opened Notes, there was my timecard warning along with about 10 other messages and 2 meeting invites. Apparently I closed Notes at one point yesterday and never reopened it, since I have a few messages that I should have received yesterday. Oh well.

And I still haven't clocked my hours.

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