Whatever man, it's just my blog

And also this:

And there was an artist that had eight pieces, seven of which were decent photos and one of which was a photo with an ai background.

And i zeroed in on that ai piece so fast that I didnt even realize they were part of the same collection. Because not only was it ai, but compositon-wise it was much weaker than the others. Because of the AI background, I was aware of its other failures.

And then, because this one seemed so low-effort, I started questioning the legitimacy of his photos, which were perfectly fine and some of them i really liked. Like... not are these ai, but like... are they actually yours?

And then, because I spent so much time on this one guy's poorly composited AI piece, I forgot to enjoy the other artists on that wall.

so then i tried "shag birds uk"

Anyway, early on, I do my rounds one day and get back to my office to record the findings. As I'm looking at one of the photos, I think to myself "Hang on. These look different from the others. They have black heads, not blue, and I think maybe they are bigger. Perhaps these are great tits?"

But of course! As they were still moulting, I wasn't sure; and so, with the wisdom of the terminally stupid, I confidently opened up Google, went to an image search, and there on my work computer in my office in my brand new job, I typed in "great tit chicks."

The results I got were not what I expected. But. Should have been.

I had to IMMEDIATELY go and fess up to my new boss and be like HEY I don't know if you monitor our internet use at all but uuuhhhhhh I can explain. Fortunately she just about pissed a kidney laughing, so it was okay.

my solution to this nightmare was to make spreadsheets that looked identical to the printouts but used named tables to create a hidden summary table, and i talked the department heads into using them by pointing out they would no longer have to manually calculate hours worked based on time. which is what they were doing before that. usually incorrectly. then i imported all those timesheet summaries into a central spreadsheet using powerquery before using vba to generate something closer to a format that our shitass software was willing to import. but i still had to use a short powershell script to finalize the format because it was a fixed width txt file with a fake filetype where multiple columns had the same name for some godforsaken reason.

this also let me automate my leave accrual spreadsheet that i had to keep because the payroll software fucked up leave accrual constantly. and which my boss originally wanted me to do manually every payroll. with a pencil and a canon mp11dx calculator. he still insisted it had to be on paper in a binder so i wrote a script to go through every table in the excel file and turn everything white except for the most recently added row so that i could just keep printing over the same pages instead of writing it in by hand. every two weeks i would put hundreds of pages of printed out spreadsheets into the printer to add a single row to the end of each page.

I can never remember the difference between M1L and M1R when knitting so... I made little reminders out of shrinky-dink paper to clip on to my stitch markers!

Could they be neater?

Probably

Could they be smaller?

Sure

Am I going to make better ones?