Painting Surprise

Previously I bleached the ceiling of our bathroom. That got all the mold off. Momoko thought we should paint the ceiling with mold resistant paint. Tonight she assigned Kit Kat to this task. I asked Momoko to go up and supervise the job. She decided to chat or play some games. When it was time to check Kit Kat's work, Momoko found that Kit Kat did not put down painter's tape on the wallpaper. Oh oh. Now we got a "trim" of white paint on the top part of the wallpaper. Momoko said she was going to get something to remove this paint tomorrow.

In other news, I just spent the last week at home learning a new programming language. I previously wanted to take a college course to learn this JavaScript language. But my college cancelled the class. I negotiated with my company to let me learn it on my own. The gave me a week off to do it. It was not a big deal. I get one week a year to do training. So this counts as my training. It was harder than I thought it would be. When I got stuck, there was no teacher or other students to help out. I only had Google at my fingertips. I got through 5 chapters of a textbook. Got to keep learning though.

Looking for a Bonus

Today is the last day of the month. I filled out my time card and found I had worked a lot of extra hours this period. Unfortunately I am a salaried employee. That means I don't get any extra pay if I work extra hours.

Since I did a good job and worked long and hard, I figure I deserve something out of it. So my plan is to ask to be sent to some training. In fact I want to attend this software conference out in San Francisco later this year.

My company is normally very generous with their training budget. However I can never get the time off from work. They always seem to need me. I even had to make a big case just to get a week off during Christmas vacation. We shall see how my training "bonus" works out. I am hoping for the best.

Rock Star Cat

Black Cat here. Sorry I have not posted in a while. I have been busy with work. Went out of town for a couple days. Had to do some training with my company. The good news is that they gave me a hotel.

Well the hotel was ok. It was close to the place I went to train. The bed was too soft. They had a big screen TV. I watched some Family Guy episodes late at night.

In other news, I got my company to buy me some business cards. At first they did not want to let me have the title of "Rock Star" on my cards. I had to talk them into it. Finally they agreed. I just got the cards in the mail today. Do you want one?