Look at me, I slept in until 5 whee!
Apparently I am a little loopy this morning. Okay. I can go with that.
Got up at 4 yesterday mostly because I couldn't sleep any more. Only 4.5 hours to kill until it was time to go to the client. Ended up watching the Doctor, having breakfast, and being an all around sloth in the morning. The shuttle took me over around 8:30 and I arrived at all of 8:40. The client arrived just before 9. I spent the entire day trying to manipulate a training into something that will work for them. I did pretty well given that I met with their SVP at 2:30 and ended up having to redo half of the demos I did because he has his own expectations for the class which are completely different from the other 19 people who are going to be in there on Thursday. Sigh. And everyone bows to this guy for some reason. Reminds me way too much of a certain CIO I used to deal with when I was working at that other company. Knows enough to be dangerous, but too high up the food chain to actually be of any use. BUT extremely hands on. Too hands on. He is going to be a problem on Thursday. I will need to keep him in line. He is trying to turn this into a class on their data and not on the product. I must have stressed that at least three times in our meeting that this is a product class. Sigh. Whatever. I will get through the day.
Upside? So far they want me to deliver what I come up with to a group in Georgia and possibly Memphis next. Why is this good? Because it should be enough for me to hit the numbers I need for end of year with the hotel and the airline. Georgia would get me right where I need to be for the airline and take care of another 3 nights of hotel.
After work I decided to walk back because it really isn't that far away. It was pouring throughout the whole day yesterday and I was afraid that would be a problem. Ended up breaking around 3. I left at about 5 and walked back to the hotel. One thing around here is the incredible amount of flora and fauna. I was almost attacked by a stork, the plant life is incredible, and there are geckos running around everywhere. It's wonderful actually. I just wish it wasn't 800 degrees and wet. It's like Hawaii on crack. Man I miss Hawaii. I haven't been in like 7 years. I need to go soon.
Changed my clothes and headed out for dinner. Had my one 'nice' dinner last night. Sat at the bar at this place where seriously I was the youngest guy there. It was ridiculous. The average age was 80, they all looked like Larry David clones, and it sounded like I was at a Jewish Temple. There was an old guy next to me on a date with someone MUCH younger and early on it seemed like it was going okay. Then he blew it. He honestly asked her 'are you still ovulating?', then he started talking about intimacy in relationships, and rounded that off with a talk about his dead wife. I mean, for real dude? I am not one to criticize age differences, but this guy was like 70-75 and she was 40 AND HE LOOKED IT. There's a difference when neither one looks their age, but this guy. Oy. He was wearing a fucking ascot and a beret for crying out loud. It was kind of sad listening to him try and score a second date. I stayed longer than I wanted because I just had to see how this was going to play out.
Walked back around 8, stopped at CVS for some stuff, skyped with B, and went to bed around 10. Rinse and repeat for the most part today. I should actually finish up a little earlier today. I am going in at 7:30 instead of 9 and should be done by around 2 or 3. Might have time to go to the mall today. We shall see.
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