The Artificial, Week 148: The Mundane

We’re having a calm period at the moment. There are two projects underway, but one is well ahead of schedule and the other is straightforward support during implementation of a very small product.

So the internal to-dos begin to bubble up to the top of my priorities. Here is what the glamorous life of a small agency director entails:

• ordering furniture
• paying invoices for the usual things, recent office painting, and income taxes
• telling everyone how to load a dishwasher
• following up on client leads, arranging meetings
• fixing a bug in our homegrown intranet wiki
• feeding digital cats
• too much communication with client procurement offices
• reconciling bank transactions
• buying and installing a printer
• helping with Javascript for a visualization project
• documenting our payroll procedures
• evaluating channels for posting job descriptions
• researching tasteful advertising options for to [icon]