Posted in Work on Jan 4th, 2007
Late this afternoon, in between a series of endlessly tedious back-to-back meetings, I was unexpectedly summoned to our president’s office. When I arrived, he waved me in and motioned for me to close the door. Wait, closed door meetings are never a good sign, are they? The first part of the ensuing conversation went something […]
Here is what the rest of my month looks like: San Francisco, Phoenix, Minneapolis, and Atlanta. Then I get a couple of weeks at home before it’s off to Chicago and Dallas. October brings a family vacation, followed by a brief respite from the travel before hauling to Canada and New York in November. I […]
Suffer endlessly with a memory impaired system that is woefully inadequate for your resource-hog applications. Reboot frequently when the repeated virtual memory errors slow the machine down until it finally stops responding. Contemplate chucking the thing out the window during the 10 very long minutes it takes to complete the reboot. Complain to anyone who […]
Posted in Work on Feb 15th, 2006
It’s been rumored for years that at the end of the 10-year lease on our current office space, we’d be moving. Now it’s official. Most likely within six months’ time, our operation will be relocating to cheaper (and smaller) space. No more penthouse office suite. I am afraid, my dear readers, that this means I’ll […]
Posted in Work on Jan 19th, 2006
Chaos at work STOP 80 bazillion urgent projects all dumped in my lap at once STOP All due in the next two weeks STOP Already losing two days due to road trip next week STOP That’s what I get for complaining to others that work has been slow STOP God heard and delivered in overabundance […]
I’ve become quite the delinquent blogger. How did that happen? The next couple of weeks will continue to be quiet for me (bloggingly speaking) as I settle into my new role at work. The honeymoon period is over and I am beginning to understand the beast I have taken on. Don’t you just love it […]
I had planned to post on an entirely different subject today, but that one will have to wait until tomorrow because right now I want to blog about my really good, most excellent day. It started out great when I got on the scale this morning and realized I’m only 5 pounds from my New […]
Posted in Work on Aug 1st, 2005
My company spent a good part of last year researching and selecting a new learning management system (LMS) with an integrated content authoring tool, to replace the extinct dinosaur we had been using to deliver e-learning courses. Our IT group hired a consultant to help us through the process and make sure all the bases […]
Posted in Work on Jul 27th, 2005
I’ve just returned from one of my favorite events of the year, CHART. I love this conference because it’s like family. It’s a smallish group (around 350 this time) of hotel and restaurant trainers who come together to share information and learn from each other, regardless of the fact that in many cases they are […]
Posted in Silence Please, Work on Jul 21st, 2005
Today is one of those rare “I’m so busy at the office that I can’t get any REAL work done, so I’m working from home” days. It’s total, absolute, glorious silence. No meetings, no interruptions, no TV, no radio, no talking/yelling/crying, no background noise of any kind. Imagine that—a bit of silence, and I can […]
