Thursday, January 21st, 2021

It’s cold outside, but not too cold, damp but not raining. I get to work at about the usual time and continue with what I usually do. I’m rewriting a manual from several years ago. Not much in the program has changed, but the manual needs a complete overhaul. After I first read it last week, I had to ask my boss what the program actually is for and what it does. The website didn’t help much either. The overly technical writing assumes that you were already familiar with the obscure quirks of the operating system. If you don’t, as I wasn’t, it’s effectively technobabble. I mostly work on fixing the formatting of what I have. Once that’s done, I can start to rewrite it. I also shoot images of the program’s few screens. Just as I’m about to head out, the boss calls me into his office. He finally demos the program for me. When I note some oddities in the screen menus, he changes them on the spot. They’re better, but I now have to reshoot them for the manual. I miss the bus that I wanted to take, as well as the one after that. I could certainly walk, but the bosses give me a ride home. An alert on my phone tells me that the government will be changing the bus rates soon. Most will be reduced. The article says, with a straight face, that local fares around here will be lowered from 5.9 shekels to 6. I close my eyes for a moment and look again. Yes, that’s what it says. I put my phone back in my pocket. I’ll find out the new fare when it happens, but probably not before.