42nd Street tonight? Anyone?

Steve's away, and I have tickets to see 42nd Street tonight.

I've asked 23 separate people to go with me. All said no, mostly due to the short notice.

Are you available tonight?

Webmail

I've figured out how to get webmail at work. They've blocked Yahoo, Hotmail, ISP's, etc. I can't get it through my website, since my fuzzygruf.com domain is also blocked.

Steve's been wanting his own site, so I established that yesterday. I was able to set up an email account for me on that. I can access my email through there, and have my other email accounts forwarded. Still a pain.

Good bi-weekly meeting with my boss

Yesterday was LONG. Getting up at 4am yesterday kinda did that.

The bookshelves from Office Max were delivered at 9:20am, so I was able to get into the office by 10am. I met with Michael for our presentation rehearsal. There was really no rehearsal involved, just some going over the notes and making sure the equipment worked ok. My boss skipped that meeting, too.

I got caught up on nearly all my work assignments. That led to a good bi-weekly meeting with my boss. I had lots of updates for her, plus I had to get info from her since she missed two other meetings with me so far this week. We talked briefly about the offshore thing. She started to say that I "might be a candidate for displacement" and I stopped her and laughed. I told her we both KENEW I was a candidate to be displayed. We then just talked about training, etc. She decided to invite me to some project manager meetings just so that I could see other people's styles. I like the idea of wasting time in meetings and leaving with no to-do's.

Escruciating FCD meeting

I got home and moved the extra mattress and box springs to the downstairs "bathroom" storage area. With the tight corners, that was NOT easy. I also assembled two of the bookcases. No tools were required. I was amazed at the design. Some folks are pretty clever. I'm going to have to unpack some boxes of books in order to make room for the third bookcase.

That work got me pretty sweaty, so I showered before going to FCD at 7:30pm. The meeting was supposed to be short so that class could start at 8pm. Wrong. They had less than 30 minutes of material, but somehow dragged that into 60 minutes, and made it pretty whiney. Well, that's one way to diminish enthusiasm for a club. I had to force myself not to get up and storm out of there. I guess some people just like to hear themselves talk. It was mentioned that there was a price increase at one of the venues. Someone asked how much the increase was. The correct answer is "The previous price was $300. Now it's $700." Easy, right? Nope. The answer turned into 15 minutes of an explanation of the venue, it's facilities, blah, blah, blah, blah, fucking blah. I hate when they say that a meeting is going to be kept short and then purposely prolong it. Some lies were told at the meeting, but correcting them would just prolong it, so I kept quiet. I'll need to fire off an email to Rick to enlighten him.

Dancing finally started at 8:30pm. I won't be surprised if students don't return due to the de-motivating meeting.

Good presentation

The presentation went fine today. Michael expanded his part, which made it more informative (although dry). Debra (my boss) didn't speak much, and she was pretty ineffective. My part is easy, but most effective. I just read the "game show" questions off the screen. I also facilitate between the teams, but that flows pretty naturally for me. I was "on" today, and my humor did well. Good participation with today's group. My boss commented afterwards at how good I am at this type of thing.

Watch out Wink Martindale.