You know what’s great about hiring more folks to help you do your work? Getting things done quickly and efficiently.

You know what sucks when your role becomes managing those other folks? Feeling like you’re completely useless.

I’m already falling out of the loop on several items here at work, and it’s driving me nuts. My value is my creativity in testing, not my ability to maintain schedules for others or make charts in Excel.

I am not of the mindset that finds shifting resources satisfying. Bleh. If it weren’t for the fact I was getting a promotion for taking on this role, I’d probably tell my boss to find somebody else.

Of course, I’m no good to this company if I’m bored and/or frustrated. I have no idea what to do.

I picked up a Zune today, even though I received a perfectly good iPod mere days ago.

Too tired to write a full comparison, but iTunes wants $1 a song, Zune has Zune Pass (which is fantastically awesome) and lets me download all I can stand for $15 a month. Zune is bulky and vibrates when the HD kicks in, iPod is slim and quiet.

Zune let me put ATHF as a background image. iPod lets me play Breakout (Bricks) with the click wheel.

I much prefer the interface of the Zune. I feel as though I’m getting to my files faster. Though it’s hard to not have the click wheel once you’ve slid your thumb around it a few times.

Somebody I’ve never met sent me a 30GB video iPod. It’s only a month old and came with a 3 year extended warranty.

And Wal-Mart finally had DS Lites in stock last night.

It was a good night for me.