2 Weeks Until DC...
I sort of forgot about this thing for a bit. So sue me.
My goatee is now a full 2 inches off my chin. And I have every intention of keeping it for the convention, even though my boss thinks I look like a psycho and watching me comb it freaks him out. Maybe I will buzz my head completely and dye the goatee.
We have to do these demos for the new program and the convention and stuff. Now I know the program, but I've never done a demo like this before. Today was my first stab. And apparently I go into too much detail in one screen (me? NEVAH!) and not enough in another and do the steps out of sequence or something. But apparently I have to be in top form by the time I wear my little dress pants and tan and green polo shirt at the booth in DC. I NEED TO PRACTICE!
I think my boss has done too many of these demos or the pain meds for his back have gone to his head or something. He's been prone to mood swings and forgetfulness but today sort of took the cake. In the meeting he brought in a tech rep to answer questions that I already knew the answers to and then he told us we both don't know what we're talking about. We all got bitched at for not having the latest build and when one person tried to upgrade it didn't work right. So I was trying to tech it. He comes over and tells me to do everything I've already done, argues with me and then makes me stop what I was doing. Forget that I was in Technical Support for 3 years and I've been with the company 6. Forget that I've saved your ass zillions of times. I can't possibly have any idea what I'm talking about. 5pm came and it still wasn't resolved. So after everyone left I took the database and ran the fix. But how do I tell if I fixed it? The database is password protected. That's one of our big features. Simple...I reset the password files. The fix worked. And no, I have no idea why exactly I had that argument. But that is an example of how work has been.
I think I really need to re-evaulate some of this career stuff. Along with some other stuff that is sort of a by product of some of the changes in interactions I've had lately. This truly has been the worst year of my life (with a few small exceptions), but I'm learning tons. I think the next 6 months are going to bring a lot of changes and a lot of hard decisions. We'll see what happens. Just think about where things were about a year ago this time. Everything's changing and this weird convergence of past and present has led to some interesting perspective.
I get to see Jared and Hannah soon. Family BBQ. I need a pic of the 3 of us together.
If anyone cares, I think BLS tickets came in the mail today. And Gigantour is 3 weeks from this Friday. Anyone want to go see Madball in Revere in early Sept some time? At Club Lido wherever that is...
Speaking of Sept. I'm going to be 31 next month. And Hannah's going to be 2. Go us!
I had a another point but I forget that so I'll end here.
My goatee is now a full 2 inches off my chin. And I have every intention of keeping it for the convention, even though my boss thinks I look like a psycho and watching me comb it freaks him out. Maybe I will buzz my head completely and dye the goatee.
We have to do these demos for the new program and the convention and stuff. Now I know the program, but I've never done a demo like this before. Today was my first stab. And apparently I go into too much detail in one screen (me? NEVAH!) and not enough in another and do the steps out of sequence or something. But apparently I have to be in top form by the time I wear my little dress pants and tan and green polo shirt at the booth in DC. I NEED TO PRACTICE!
I think my boss has done too many of these demos or the pain meds for his back have gone to his head or something. He's been prone to mood swings and forgetfulness but today sort of took the cake. In the meeting he brought in a tech rep to answer questions that I already knew the answers to and then he told us we both don't know what we're talking about. We all got bitched at for not having the latest build and when one person tried to upgrade it didn't work right. So I was trying to tech it. He comes over and tells me to do everything I've already done, argues with me and then makes me stop what I was doing. Forget that I was in Technical Support for 3 years and I've been with the company 6. Forget that I've saved your ass zillions of times. I can't possibly have any idea what I'm talking about. 5pm came and it still wasn't resolved. So after everyone left I took the database and ran the fix. But how do I tell if I fixed it? The database is password protected. That's one of our big features. Simple...I reset the password files. The fix worked. And no, I have no idea why exactly I had that argument. But that is an example of how work has been.
I think I really need to re-evaulate some of this career stuff. Along with some other stuff that is sort of a by product of some of the changes in interactions I've had lately. This truly has been the worst year of my life (with a few small exceptions), but I'm learning tons. I think the next 6 months are going to bring a lot of changes and a lot of hard decisions. We'll see what happens. Just think about where things were about a year ago this time. Everything's changing and this weird convergence of past and present has led to some interesting perspective.
I get to see Jared and Hannah soon. Family BBQ. I need a pic of the 3 of us together.
If anyone cares, I think BLS tickets came in the mail today. And Gigantour is 3 weeks from this Friday. Anyone want to go see Madball in Revere in early Sept some time? At Club Lido wherever that is...
Speaking of Sept. I'm going to be 31 next month. And Hannah's going to be 2. Go us!
I had a another point but I forget that so I'll end here.