Y2 D336

Irony at its best: when I was in AZ back in June where I had my trouble at a training class, one of the complaints was I had removed my shoes under the desk while the class was working on an exercise. Yesterday when the guy who put together the training we were doing got up to introduce me, he did in his socks. That's the amusing part; when I mentioned it to my bosses via an email, their responses did kind of piss me off. They saw the humor, but one of them had to say 'yes, but did he smell of booze after having sex with some young girl?'. I know he was trying to be funny, but it was a slap. I responded nicely with 'I am sitting in my hotel room working on XXX's stuff'. I thought that would be the end of it. No he had to come back with 'It's not midnight yet'. Damn. Ouch. And people wonder why I am thinking of a new job...

The class went okay. It's not formal training, but rather an informal mentoring with 5 people in the room. We are going through different scenarios and how you would handle them. One of the guys near the end of the day pointed out that the things I have been teaching are slightly different than the official classes he has attended. Luckily the group backed me on this one and they commented on how we weren't using demo data, nor were we intentionally trying to create best case scenarios. Instead I was showing them how to deal with the unexpected which differs from the official courseware. I think it went down well, but we will find out today when we decide on the topics and path of the class. It's always safer when you are dealing with official courseware, but that's not what they wanted. Fine.

I really did come back to the hotel and do nothing. I stopped at the store and picked up some food. I spent about 2 hours working on one reporting problem, watched an episode of Reaper on netflix, then sat in bed reading Fight Club. Read for two hours and finished the book for the umpteenth time. That was my night. No money blown, no girls screwed. Good boy. Here's a bone.

I did hear back from the recruiter - they are still calling references. I am worried and impressed. Hopefully I will hear something today.