Y5 D209

FINALLY! I had a decent night's sleep. I am so happy. Done without booze or any other outside influences too. I stayed up until about 10:30 and slept straight until 4:45. Well mostly. I woke up once at 1:30. Compared to most of the nights I have had here, I will take that as straight through. My nose is bleeding, my lips are cracked and destroyed, but I slept! Fuck this dry climate. And I am leaving just in time. I can feel the snow about to arrive.

Yesterday was the one formal by the book training day and as a result I was able to keep everyone focused and on track. At lunch I had to take that conference call. Companies should not let developers try and run projects. They have no concept of time or requirements. This guy I had to talk to was just an idiot. He wanted everything to be like five minutes and plug and play. When I pushed on him and said the earliest I could touch anything was 1/6 I thought he was going to explode. The heavy sigh he let out and the 'fine' was worse than any woman telling her husband who just bought her a vacuum for her birthday that everything was 'fine'. He is one of those people who feels like 'us contractors' (sorry buddy, I am a consultant) should work whenever to make him happy, including Christmas week. And he was upset when I told him what he wanted to do was not just one click done and I would need at least two days AND that he needed to do some data prep work. At the end of a very annoying call, it was clear we won't be hearing from him until at least mid-january. Suck it.

Got back to the hotel around 5, ironed, packed, printed boarding passes, and had dinner at the restaurant. I posted online something and to paraphrase here - I wish I had a sign that politely said "I know you are trying to be nice and polite and engage me in conversation, but I just spent 9 hours talking and that's the last thing I want to do right now. Please give me silence'. I know the waiter and staff are just trying to be nice, and I come across as grumpy, but I just want silence. I don't want to interact with people. I want to eat and be quiet. They tried to seat me in the bar because the dining room was empty and the server had to split rooms, but I don't care. I want silence.

Headed back to the room and talked to B for a while. She ended up going in on her day off because of the holidays coming up. They will have 150+ cats next week at their peak. Everyone is freaking out. She only worked four or five hours, but still. On top of it, she feels like she is getting a cold. Bad week babe.

After we hung up, I started watching The Newsroom. I am in love. The first episode blew me away. I have 18 more to go but wow. Great show. I was going to watch a second episode but I decided to wait for B. She will like this show.

Today I train for a half day, then head out to the airport. I am scheduled to land around 9:30. Let's see how travel goes.