threeplusfire | concentration

Work is very slow tonight, and the office is for some reason set to 'frigid' tonight. There are many people working in my bay, and I am the only one not cross-training. Cross-training is what they assign you to do when there just isn't enough work. Ostensibly you are sent to a different state and someone trains you to work there, shows you all the resources, tricks and whatnot. Really it's an excuse to slack.

Mostly my concentration is shot because Jeremiah was fired about an hour and a half earlier. I suppose I just didn't take him seriously when he said he wasn't doing any work. Last month he averaged about 14 units a day, and it's been nearly six months since he seriously attempted working. He had worked here two years, and had just stopped caring. Well, at least he expected it and didn't seem very fazed. Hopefully he'll pick up some temp work, and find something more interesting for him.

I was thinking tonight about web records versus paper records. I like keeping my journal here for many reasons. Frequently I post and include links or pictures to illustrate or explain whatever I'm writing about. But what happens to my record when websites disappear, fold, vanish? Should I write the explanations in here, since I can't paste newspaper clippings? Should I care and just think of the this space as fleeting? I don't know. I wonder.

Perhaps I should also begin carrying a paper journal again, clipping articles, printing and such things. When the tax return money comes, perhaps I'll buy a fancy leatherbound book to carry in my pocket.