Y5 D193

So sleepy. Need to stabilize my body clock. Not working. I wanted so bad to take a nap after work but fought it off with all my strength. Ended up falling asleep at 9:40pm. Which of course meant I was awake at around 3. Managed to fall back to sleep until now. Thrown off. Ugh.

Class went well yesterday. In a lead lined three inch thick concrete room where I have no internet or phone access unfortunately. Okay it probably isn't lined with lead, but it's a state government building which also houses prisoners so it might as well be. And yes, I said prisoners. This client is a juvenile detention facility. They have 'guests' from age 5 to 21 visiting them at any time and I am right in the middle of it. Fun stuff. The group is pretty good. They aren't the 'experts' I was led to believe though. I think there was some confusion between this gig and the next one I am doing in Colorado. This group is all novices which means I lost 2 hours yesterday having to do the intro part of the class that I would normally do for non-technical folks. Everyone was able to keep up and there are so far no stragglers. But it did throw off my schedule and I am about an hour behind right now. Luckily we have a fourth day which is meant to be open ended. If I need to, I can roll things into that day. It also looks like I did an upsell and have them wanting another week of training on some other topics. I may be coming back here in the not too distant future. That's always one of the unwritten goals of these classes. Either turn it into a consulting gig for the company or get them to take more classes. In this case over time I think we can do both. If I can at least get a week more of training on the books for 2014, I am doing my job.

Finished the day up right around 5 and headed back to the room. Walked around a bit and found a place called "Beef O Bradys". Yeah. It was okay. Had a decent salad and sandwich for dinner. Nothing exciting. The place bordered on annoying especially the people wanting to know if I was 'doing okay?'. There is a fine line between checking on your customer and bothering the shit out of them. This place straddled it too closely.

B got her new phone yesterday and went ahead and opened it. She was so excited. We didn't get a chance to talk, but we texted and it seems like everything is going well on her new device. I am looking forward to being home and checking it out. I don't want one, but I am always excited about new toys.

Watched some TV in the room but otherwise, not much else. Last night was night 59. One more and I am officially Diamond. Bam.