Sigh. In about 9 hours I will have to be back at work and I am so not looking forward to it. Case of the Mondays or something. I don't freakin' know. I do know, that I would much rather work from home. Which begs the question, why don't more organizations allow people to work from home on a more regular basis? Seriously, with call forwarding, remote email, conference calls, live online chats, etc. there have GOT to be a limited number of situations that would necessitate a person having to be at their desk.
I would argue that it is sometimes more efficient to just let people work from home. There are less distractions and I could surely get a lot more done. Sometimes face-to-face meetings are important. Sometimes actual in person *live* communication is important. But seriously, as I think about it, on an average week I could perform almost half of my week's activities from home.
Anyway, today in stark contrast to yesterday, I did squat. My phone started ringing at 6:54AM because of work crap. So because of yesterday and today, there was really NO break, no extra sleep, nada. The Chargers pulled a win out of their asses, for which I am glad. There were a couple of occasions where we could've lost the game.
The rest of the day was pretty much chill. Akilah and I walked to the cafe for a late dinner and back. We went through the DVR and freed up some space - damn me and my incessant need to record things in HD.
8 hours, 53 minutes.
Sigh.
Started my Saturday off by getting up hella early and participating in a CPR class at work. It wasn't mandated or anything. I just wanted to take the class. In the class, was this chick would NOT shut the fuck up. She had a quip, comment or something irritating to say to interrupt the instructor about every 7-10 minutes. And the comments were generally NOT germaine to the presentation at hand. Seriously, shut the fuck up and keep your internal dialogue internal!
After the CPR class I booked it home, but decided to stop and get the car washed. With the weather and my overall laziness over the few couple of weeks the G8 was looking really rough. So it got the normal wash and a treatment for the leather/plastics inside and outside of the car. Since I have never owned a car with leather, and I intend on keeping this vehicle for as long as I possibly can, it seems natural to take care of the leather. So the car is washed in the normal *lane* with the other vehicles. Then it's brought under this canopy type place where the guy proceeds to give a lot more attention I thought the extra $13 warranted from the normal car wash. I thought I was anal. This guy went through the interior of the car with a fine cloth and didn't miss an inch.
While it's being detailed, I overhear a guy looking at it and pointing out how, "it's like that GTO that Ford makes". Err, no sirree, Pontiac makes the GTO and this G8. I feel bad having to correct the dude in front of his chica. This this other dude was staring at the back of my car and typing into his phone. I didn't know if he had snapped off a pic or not, but it was a little irritating. Perhaps it was nothing, but it felt a tad creepy. Finally, this lady and I guess her daughter/grandaughter struck up convo about the car. What it is, what makes it special and what not.
I am very disappointed that Pontiac, well more to the point, GM has decided to cancel the G8 in the US. I sort of sensed it coming. With gas prices being what they were over the summer and the utter lack of advertising for the vehicle, it didn't seem like GM was planning on keeping this pony in their stable for the long haul. Which is a damned shame. The G8 represents a combination of value, performance, features, luxury and panache lacking most American car companies's lineups. But I think folks here that it has the same V-8 as the Corvette and that it's an "American car" and decide it's an unreliable, gas guzzling piece of junk - which it is not. It get the same freeway and city/freeway gas mileage as many V-6's current on the market. It doesn't require premium fuel. And it's way more comfortable and fun to drive than many of its foreign import brethern.
Tonight we also hosted another Game Night using Scene It! This game is hella addictive and very cool. It also has the added benefit of making it VERY difficult for Tonya to cheat at!! Every now and then she would yell out and complain about the controller not working, but they ALL worked! It was also Irish Car Bomb night too, and pretty we had about 3 or 4 of those each. It was great having peeps over!
Today was a long full day from the instant I stepped through the door and put my bag down in my office. We had some new toys coming in for a promotion and they needed to be setup and readied for testing ASAP. While that was going on, I had to contend with issues arising in the opening of our new restaurants. All the while dealing with OTHER crap all at the same time. And then my day was going to get cut short because our team had a bowling event downtown. I came this close to not going and/or making it. LITERALLY RIGHT before I left I had something else land on my plate, and instead of leaving it for Monday, I took care of it asap. The bowling thing was at this place called The Tavern, which was pretty cool space in the middle of downtown. The only thing I found sucky was, the walls around the lanes were glass so passerbys could stop and watch. Talk about performance anxiety. Overall it was pretty fun. The boss picked up our tab and some good eats. Chris once again managed to get the attention of our waitress who paid him all kinds of special attention, while the rest of us were left holding our emptying glasses hoping for some attention. I swear, whenever we roll out, this man get the attention of some bartender or waitress and scores us free drinks. I am so not complaining.
After the bowling thing wrapped up we sat around talked it up with a few guys from our team and the head of the company. These situations are always WROUGHT with pitfalls. Some upper management people appreciate it when for a short time we just forget their position and want to just hang. Some of those same people would much rather, we treat them with the same...errr...deference as we do at work. Well after this guy told me to fuck off, a few times, it seemed he was more of the former than the latter. haha!
The highlight of today was capping the day off with meeting up with one of Akilah's friends at the Cheesecake factory for her overdue birthday dinner. I looooooove me some Cheesecake Factory! Anyway, we're sitting there talking and the story about dude's latest car comes up. How he walked onto a lot, pointed at a Dodge Charger and bought it cash. To me that's not even the remarkable part of the story. No, the remarkable part of the story is, he doesn't know WHICH Charger he got! Doesn't know if it was the SE, R/T, SRT-8 - nuthin! He just liked the look and color and decided that he wanted that one and drove off with it.
Seriously, what the fuck???
Oh yea, I have a new favorite cheesecake from TCF, their pumpkin cheesecake is ridic!