This WOULD have been posted last night, but the servers were down for an update/upgrade…

Monday. I guess that you have to get through them to get on with the rest of the week. Oh, well. This leaves me only two days – or one day and a wake-up – from California. Can you say “Disneyland and Sea World,” boys and girls? I can. Six… count ’em 6… days of non-Postal, California bliss. And this will be my first trip to California in over 20 years; we were in Lake Tahoe, CA last October, but we were only there for a couple of hours. Sure, “it counts,” but it’s not the same thing…

Work was… umm… “something.” We were sent to lunch early. Yay. I was SO excited, in fact, that I didn’t even eat. Otherwise, things were pretty normal… until 6 PM. The senior managers called an impromptu meeting.

Theory: Good. Practical Application: Bad.
While I understand, and even commend, the reasons for having the meeting, I think that the tone of it could have been handled differently/better. It set the mood for the rest of my day – IRRITATED. But, I got over it. On the “plus” side, I even managed to get a couple of Quotes of the Day from Dee:

  • While talking to another friend of ours, Rick, their conversation turned to Gary Coleman. Yes that Gary Coleman. Dee then talked about an interview that he had read about the former child-star, in which he mentioned that he was a 31-year-old virgin. One thing lead to another and they hypothesized on the whys and wherefores of that. A little banter was tossed back and forth and Dee turned to Rick and said: “Gary Coleman’s a freak…. and you’re just very unattractive.” We all laughed; many a young lady at work has commented about just how attractive Rick is. But it was a good spur-of-the-moment jibe.
  • Dee had made a joke or some intended-to-be-funny comment, and then looked at me and saw me wearing my impassive look. He stared for a couple of seconds, turned back to his terminal and let fly with “I’m going to help myself to a serving of shut-the-fuck-up. THIS got a laugh. From both of us.

After work, Jess and I headed down to her parents’ for a bit. I helped edit another of Brian’s papers and we picked up the infamous digicam for the Cali trip – Sandi is about ready to punt it into the canal again. Under the heading of “good thing,” I’m pretty sure that we are going to wind up buying it from them. We left there and picked up some Chinese food on the way home. And, since we’re leaving in… :::does the math::: … just over 30 hours, I even (mostly) packed tonight.

“…and that’s all the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, the men are good-looking and the children are above average.”

Peace.