The Mac's are Here!

We are now officially moved to the new schedule It's odd what a difference 3.5 hours make. Just one more little adjustment. KJ and I are tough, though, we'll acclimate.

KJ was beyond thrilled when we walked in. They were just setting up two Macs in our classroom. She came from photo in Orlando, so she is a Mac lady through and through. One of the instructors asked me about MY Mac skills. I looked at Teena and we said, "Dean!" in unison. Dean is my Mac guy in LA. My Mac guy. Mine. Actually, he is fab with the Mac and whenever I got stuck, you would hear my plaintive "Deeeaaaannn." So nice to know that Teena remembers how we all relied on his skills.

KJ just started teaching. The students are thrilled, because they don't get much hands on yet. We've got their Citrix accounts in place but some things are still being built. They can now log on, but not do everything. Soon. So for now, they get to learn all things Mac. We have a lot of photographers and creative people that use Macs. That's graphically creative. We have lots of very creative people who do their magic with words.

After KJ was done, the people who have been here 3.5 weeks started to teach the Newsday, Sun, Courant and Morning Call people about LAT programs. It was a great refresher for the LAT people. They are supposed to start taking some calls next week.

This is the call center. It's still a bit bare bones. When Harriet was here, there was not glass. Today there is glass and the room is painted and cleaned up of all references to the Wall Street Journal. Don't know how that got on all our stuff. Still no computers or phones because we don't have the security locks on the doors. When we do move, there will be a time when they move the network connections down from the second floor to this floor. That is a little scary to me. Every time we move something, we have to take time to adjust. It always sounds easy, but we all know that Nothing Is Easy. My motto from all the years I've been at The Times. Even when something seems cinchy, there is always a glitch. I had NIE over my desk in the Learning Center. Some must have thought that meant Newspapers In Education, but we know. Nothing Is Easy.

They are testing phone lines tomorrow. They tried today, but as you can see, no phone. NIE. Phones, computers, chairs that work... people. We'll be all ready to go.