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title: "The Artificial, Week 148: The Mundane"
abstract: "Another week of The Artificial"
categories:
- work
content-tags:
- weeknotes
- theartificial
- business
external: https://theartificial.com/blog/2016/02/05/week-148.html
---

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][1]
- following up on client leads, arranging meetings
- fixing a bug in our homegrown intranet wiki
- feeding [digital cats][2]
- 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 \[icon\]][3]

[1]: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/dishwasher
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neko_Atsume
[3]: https://theartificial.com/work/toicon.html
