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edenfalling) wrote2020-11-12 10:01 pm
edenfalling) wrote2020-11-12 10:01 pm
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today was a day of computer woes
Random things done today at work:
1. Called a person to get them to submit the rest of their lease documents, since they kept not reading their email. Then I was on the phone with them for like half an hour while they had some DEEPLY WEIRD email problems -- like, they couldn't send an email to either of my company accounts at all, either by writing a new message OR by replying to a message I'd sent them just an hour earlier -- but finally we were able to get the documents to my company Gmail account (though even that was slow as molasses). And then they had to re-photograph two items because their initial photo had one on top of the other in such a way that neither was usable. *sigh*
But! We triumphed in the end, and that lease is now put to bed. :)
2. Ran around our downtown properties to take down a bunch of signs I should have taken down two weeks ago but I kept forgetting. *deeper sigh*
3. Un-staged an apartment whose new tenant should move in tomorrow.
4. Created a draft version of an employment verification form, since for unknown reasons (*cough* Ms. Busywork *cough*) we had never had an official form for that before. *headdesk* Also, fun fact! Apparently half of the questions on our rental verification/landlord reference form were blatantly illegal (*cough* Ms. Busywork *cough*), not to mention there was no place for the prospective tenant to authorize the release of their information, so Mom Boss has been rewriting that for us.
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Random things done today outside of work:
1. Got the Board "sense of the meeting" writeup edited and sent to the congregation's office manager person to include in the monthly newsletter, which included turning a Google Drive spreadsheet into a PDF, among other things. Go me!
2. Edited the minutes from last night's meeting and sent them around to the Board for review, because I am trying to stay more on top of things instead of letting them slide for weeks.
3. While I was at it, I edited the minutes template to remove a whole bunch of inconsistent formatting, because inconsistent formatting drives me up the wall. Also, the tidier the template is, the less time I have to spend tweaking things during meetings when I should be paying attention to people talking.
4. Family Zoom call to discuss Thanksgiving. In summary, Chicago is now on Covid-19 lockdown so we are not doing Thanksgiving at Aunt Cara's. In theory, I could drive to NJ or Mom and Dad could drive to Ithaca and we could do a mini-Thanksgiving and call Nick via Zoom, but that would feel weird and unbalanced. So we're all going to stay home and do our own thing, but be in contact via Zoom -- probably also with Aunt Cara, and maybe even with Mom's friend Mary.
We still intend to do a nuclear family Christmas in NJ, though -- gods willing and the creek don't rise. *wry*
The Zoom meeting itself was frustrating because Mom's settings wouldn't allow me to call in via phone, and my computer still doesn't believe it has microphones even though the hardware exists. We tried having me call Nick and him putting me on speakerphone, but that A) was too quiet and laggy to be useful and B) produced hideous feedback. So I just typed in the chat. (I could hear everyone fine! I was just on permanent involuntary mute, alas. I really need to schedule a Geek Squad appointment to get the microphone situation fixed.)
1. Called a person to get them to submit the rest of their lease documents, since they kept not reading their email. Then I was on the phone with them for like half an hour while they had some DEEPLY WEIRD email problems -- like, they couldn't send an email to either of my company accounts at all, either by writing a new message OR by replying to a message I'd sent them just an hour earlier -- but finally we were able to get the documents to my company Gmail account (though even that was slow as molasses). And then they had to re-photograph two items because their initial photo had one on top of the other in such a way that neither was usable. *sigh*
But! We triumphed in the end, and that lease is now put to bed. :)
2. Ran around our downtown properties to take down a bunch of signs I should have taken down two weeks ago but I kept forgetting. *deeper sigh*
3. Un-staged an apartment whose new tenant should move in tomorrow.
4. Created a draft version of an employment verification form, since for unknown reasons (*cough* Ms. Busywork *cough*) we had never had an official form for that before. *headdesk* Also, fun fact! Apparently half of the questions on our rental verification/landlord reference form were blatantly illegal (*cough* Ms. Busywork *cough*), not to mention there was no place for the prospective tenant to authorize the release of their information, so Mom Boss has been rewriting that for us.
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Random things done today outside of work:
1. Got the Board "sense of the meeting" writeup edited and sent to the congregation's office manager person to include in the monthly newsletter, which included turning a Google Drive spreadsheet into a PDF, among other things. Go me!
2. Edited the minutes from last night's meeting and sent them around to the Board for review, because I am trying to stay more on top of things instead of letting them slide for weeks.
3. While I was at it, I edited the minutes template to remove a whole bunch of inconsistent formatting, because inconsistent formatting drives me up the wall. Also, the tidier the template is, the less time I have to spend tweaking things during meetings when I should be paying attention to people talking.
4. Family Zoom call to discuss Thanksgiving. In summary, Chicago is now on Covid-19 lockdown so we are not doing Thanksgiving at Aunt Cara's. In theory, I could drive to NJ or Mom and Dad could drive to Ithaca and we could do a mini-Thanksgiving and call Nick via Zoom, but that would feel weird and unbalanced. So we're all going to stay home and do our own thing, but be in contact via Zoom -- probably also with Aunt Cara, and maybe even with Mom's friend Mary.
We still intend to do a nuclear family Christmas in NJ, though -- gods willing and the creek don't rise. *wry*
The Zoom meeting itself was frustrating because Mom's settings wouldn't allow me to call in via phone, and my computer still doesn't believe it has microphones even though the hardware exists. We tried having me call Nick and him putting me on speakerphone, but that A) was too quiet and laggy to be useful and B) produced hideous feedback. So I just typed in the chat. (I could hear everyone fine! I was just on permanent involuntary mute, alas. I really need to schedule a Geek Squad appointment to get the microphone situation fixed.)