Blonde Moments

The weather has been pretty evenly dividing between blinding sun and dreary rain for the last couple of weeks.

What does that produce?  Yep, you guessed it.  MUD.  And rutted roads.

So, we had to do some errands the other day and one of the guys slipped and fell when climbing out of the truck.  One second he was there and the next he was down for the count.  Mud was, of course, heavily involved.

It was no use for him to hope that nobody saw it ~ the truck was full of us. 

If he were a female, I'd call him Grace, but I've got to think of another name for him.  Hmmm...

I share a ride to work most days with three of my co-workers.  They like to listen to the latest R&B stuff, which I don't mind.

There's this one song that sounds like it has one of the Chipmunks doing backup, singing, "how low can you go".

So, they said,"Go Shawn!"  They wanted to hear my chipmunk rendition.

According to the deep belly laughs the others had, I'd say my impression was pretty darn good.

*grin*

It's been many years since I've had to take a leadership role at work. 

Sure, I get to be the boss-lady (in some aspects) at home, but, work is a whole different story.

I've oft said that I didn't want to be in charge of anyone but myself and I still feel that way. 

But.  I think I can do good things with this team.  They're a great bunch and, if they train me to lead them right, we'll do even greater things.

So, I'm really trying to step carefully here.  That's why, when one of our primary servers went down last night, I decided to go back to work.

I was in my comfy jammies and was getting ready for bed when I got the call.  I don't think anyone would have blamed me if I didn't go, but, I kept thinking to myself that a good leader is there for their people and leaders lead by example.

So I went in.

I DID, however, sleep in late.  :)   

There are some days I love my job. 

Today wasn't really one of them.  I got some "corporate love" from my higher ups and got really furious in the process.  I've noted my objections professionally; hopefully, someone will listen.

One of the guys on my team was showing me some of the cool toys that are coming out or have been out for biometrics but aren't necessarily in use in theater.  One of them was a wrist device that you could hook the biometric equipment to and get your information.

I laughed when I saw it, because I imagined the weight of it and how unwieldy it looked.  At first, I was going to do a cartoon about how it couldn't go from left to right arm and was going to draw all the character's left arms huge in comparison to a skinny right arm.  I decided this would be better, though, and less likely to be misinterpreted.

We have a few disparate systems here that, while closely related to what I work with, aren't exactly the same.

 So, we spend a lot of time and effort trying to get the information from these other systems into ours.

Conference calls, requirements boards, database tweaking, and more.

Sometimes this is what I think that they're thinking: