Pay raise and new office

Yay! I got a NICE pay raise. I went from 50k a year (I thought it was 53, but that's another story..) to 61K. I asked for 12K, and got 11 - I'm happy. It'll mean about $600 extra each month.

And I got the old accountant's office. Both my old and new office were real offices (and window ones at that), but this one is bigger, and right between the CEO's and my boss' offices. I'm happy. :) And it's perennially cool in there. Another plus.

So I was moving into my new office today, and that was quite a workout. Two desks, three monitors, three computers (one non-operational, but still dead weight). Haven't moved the bookshelf but I'll do that tomorrow.

Almost finished migrating the site to AJAX (oh, I really like this, it's so CLEAN and organized..), migrated most of the "upload batch" program to pretend it's a web browser and use the AJAX as well. Next month we'll see if it actually works. I've got a bit of code at work that will, from .Net, launch OpenOffice, have it load a file and save it in another format. I plan to rewrite our complex reports to spit out OpenOffice-format files, and then let OO convert it to Word, Excel, or PDF (or whatever I want in the future). It'll be great. Might even just write some reports directly in OpenOffice. Gotta research that more.

Got a couple more books from the library on Jewish topics. I'd post the names, but they're in the car and I'm not. Maybe later. and I have recently been watching Dead Like Me from netflix. I'd recommend it if the following word could, in part, describe you: weird. If that goes in the sentence "I am xxxxx." then you might enjoy it. I've got a DVD here that we really need to get around to watching and sending back... Oh well.

One last thing: I LOVE this weather. Ah. It was 46F this morning, misting in my face. Just wonderful. The ONLY way it could have been better would be snow, and even then, I'm not sure that it really would have been better. Too bad it won't last.