Magister mundi sum!

- I am the master of the universe!

This has been an interesting week at the office. Shortly before I left on vacation the other Underwriter left to open his own office and become an agent. The search for a replacement is slow, particularly here in Portland where the pool of candidates is pretty slim. So for the time being the office staff in Commercial Lines has been me, two assistants and the Admin assistant.

My assistant left for Hawaii this week, and the Admin is on vacation someplace ( I forget where), which left us skinny this week but, I thought, all should be okay. However Sherrie, the other Underwriting Assistant had a medical problem and found herself in to Emergency Room on Monday. So the count was down to me.

The Office lights are on motion detectors, and apparently I am not exerting enough motion. The lights keep going out. To compensate I have to stand up and wave my arms about once every half-hour. This would not be too bad except my first-floor office has windows opening directly out onto the building entrance, so that anyone arriving from the parking lot sees me jumping out of my chair and bouncing around to make the lights comer back on. Not that this would necessarily be unlike me anyway, but I usually only perform for friends. Monday afternoon we had a building fire-drill. The alarm went off, and of course I had to exit. Generally the office would have others in it as well, but all the Engineers were out in the field, so it really was only me, standing in my appointed spot in the parking lot. When it was time to return to my desk, the lights had of course gone back out, so I had to wave at the detector as I passed.

It is terrible to be King if there's no-one to carry your cape.