11 Mar
A colleague of S’s enjoyed the last video I posted of the gal pal and requested that I share more videos of her. Who am I not to comply?
This was taken in February 0f ‘08, the day after we had a huge snowstorm. You can see the pup loved bouncing around in it until she realized she was cold.
http://thestreetcarchronicles.com/media/pupinthesnow.flv10 Mar
This was in my Google Reader under the suggested items I might like feed. It’s probably the best tech call ever made.
The caller, a woman in California calls in to Leo Laporte’s show The Tech Guy! She mentions that for the last year and a half she’s logged onto a wireless network in her apartment complex but it’s recently disappeared. She’s gone out and got a wi-fi extender in the hopes of getting the signal back, with no such luck.
9 Mar
I’ve written about work more than I’ve meant to lately. How’s about some tales of fun nights spent with friends?
After two cancellations on our part, S and I were finally able to get together for dinner with our friends Christine and T. Both S and I had felt pretty bad that our stomach issues had resulted in our plans being postponed, especially since we wanted to celebrate Christine’s 29th birthday. This past Friday, we went out to a happening Sushi restaurant in our ‘hood.
S and I arrived at 7:30 and only two tables in the restaurant were occupied. Given a choice of seating, S and I elected to sit in the booth in the window. “Does this place ever get busy?” S asked me as we settled in to our seats. Not long after, we were joined by Christine and T.
Christine was as bubbly as ever as we chatted about what we’ve been up to the last few weeks. Christine is a regular reader of the blog so she came to dinner with a few questions for me regarding the breakfast with executives I had participated in earlier in the week. She and S exchanged stories of frustrating HR personnel at their respective companies and then I answered her questions about the breakfast initiative at the office.
8 Mar
I typed too soon. Yesterday, I was pretty confident that the new changes happening at work would not involve a new person coming to my little section of the department. Today, Larry burst my bubble. He told me that, while still confidential, he would share with me that one of the event gals will be joining us as part of the department’s restructure.
He couldn’t tell me who since whoever it is still doesn’t know about the move. I don’t know which one of the girls’ will be joining us, but I’m not looking forward to it. The girls I work with are pretty superficial, their major concerns in life are make-up, fashion, making babies and talking about how wonderful their lives are. Other than Natalie, Marigold, Charlie and Katie, the girls at work are spoiled little princess’.
I don’t even know how this addition would work. Larry and I don’t deal with events so having one of those gals join us will really be taking a fish out of water. A part of me thinks that this is an attempt to get whoever it is to quit. These girls love planning events and I doubt whoever will come over will be happy about the change. Maybe the company thinks this is an easier way to get people to leave. No one really likes Larry, they all think he’s strange and I know that people make fun of him.
7 Mar
It’s been a busy couple of days, especially at work. This past week, there were a lot of meetings, mostly be the senior folks in my department. This was also the week we had someone come in to talk to us about using social media.
First, the meetings. Early in the week, my boss, his peers, their boss and our department’s vice president met to discuss and settle the coming changes to our area. I got a brief synopsis from Larry when he returned from the meeting but he spent the rest of that day and week in and out of meetings so we didn’t get a chance to sit down and thoroughly talk about the changes. All he said was that there would be significant changes happening, especially on the other side of the floor – the events side of things.
It was confirmed to him that he would not be getting another person under his realm. I thought that was good news for me, as it meant that I would have to share the relationship Larry and I have with someone else. He and I have a good set-up, I understand him (few others bother getting to know him) and he likes me. He feels comfortable with me, he tells me about his family and private life, something he rarely does with the other people in the company. A new person would change the dynamic and I’m glad that’s put off for now.
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