Thursday, November 5, 2009

Bad blogger in a wacky time zone

I've been a bad blogger this week. Sorry. Had a bit of writers block combined with a general feeling of just being slightly off. I think my feeling of being off strangely has to do with daylight savings. See India doesn't do daylight savings so I'm now 10 1/2 hours ahead of the East Coast. So if I want to call someone back in the US of A I need to wait until 7:30 p.m., which means that I forget...and when these are work calls I really need to remember.
Another aspect of being on the other side of the world that I've noticed before but now it is extra noticeable this week...all because of Sesame Street.
Confused?
Well this week is the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street and Google is running special Sesame Street style Google images this week. Today is Cookie Monster...only today isn't Cookie Monster, yesterday was, but since today for me is still yesterday in the US I still have Cookie Monster on my screen. It will change sometime mid-morning.
Kind of like this post will probably say that it was done on November 5th, but it is actually the 6th for me.
Another not-so fun website update is that all of the US websites do their maintenance during the night US time; usually between 2 and 5 a.m. which means that when I've tried to check my bank account or credit card on line lately about 1/2 the time the website is down for maintenance. You would think that I would remember this and start doing my banking first thing in the morning India time but alas, I always forget.
Maybe I just need to work on remembering this better so that I don't keep running into these obstacles.
Minor India pet peeve tirade...so we have a cleaning guy in our office and he cleans pretty much all the time; like every day dusts off desks, cleans the floors, etc., etc. But because this is India and people don't pick up after themselves he works during the day. What this means is that every morning he cleans off people's desks, while they are working, and the staff just sit back for 5 minutes and stop working. This drives me batty. Why can't he get here an hour before everyone? Why can't he just wait until they are on their lunch break? Luckily he knows that I'm weird and he cleans my desk when I'm away but really, why am I the only one to find this inefficient?
Sigh.
Oh well. I should just get over it.
Anyway...time to get back to work. Its 9:20 a.m. my time, still yesterday back in the US. I have a little more than an hour left with Cookie Monster on my Google screen.

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