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August 21, 2006

The gremlin on my plane

So, I haven't been writing any blog entries for a while but I haven't been reading any blogs for a while either. Well, it made sense in my head. Things are going good for me out here in Colorado. I've been full time (before I was considered a temp) here for almost 2 months now and will finally see some extra money from my pay check this Friday. My AC-free apartment is finally cooling down. I made it through a Judo BBQ at Jerr's without puking. I ran almost 9 miles on Saturday in preparation for the annual VA Beach Half Marathon on Sept 3rd (one day after mine and Becca's birthday). And the pain in my ass intern at work is finally leaving!! His last day is Friday, and I couldn't be more excited.

For those of you who haven't been listening to my endless complaints for the last couple of months I'll give you an update. The online database program that I'm primarily responsible for is getting a complete refresh with a go-live date of October 1st. The refresh, however is spearheaded by the IT department. I'm in the Sales Operations department and therefore have no authority over the little twit they hired to work on the refresh this summer. I have no idea where they found this kid but he's a complete idiot. I might be inclined to give him a little leniency since he had absolutely no training on the database before getting pushed into this project, but I started only a couple weeks before him and was in the same boat. Come on buddy, it's not that hard to figure out! IT's first mistake was hiring this simpering lost cause, but their second mistake was giving the fool System Administrator privileges! For what he's supposed to be doing he does need the privileges but they never should have put a college intern in this position. Over the last couple months he's managed to:



The worst part is that he's such a scam artist, it takes people a while to discover his ineptitude. I was just about fuming when I got out of a meeting with several people that had never met the kid before and kept deferring to him for answers instead of me about stuff I work with everyday. I know he has no idea what he's talking about, but they had no clue. I think that the real reason is that I look my age while this 20 year old, looks about 30.

Those of you who know me might be shocked at my vehemence and use of the word 'twit'. Not to worry I haven't shown any outward signs of my displeasure to this poor clueless numbskull. But I will probably jump for joy when I leave work this Friday and realize that his productivity level will move up to 0% from his current average of -20%.

August 09, 2006

And Brian has to learn many more names

I flew back east this last weekend and drove up to Long Island for a family reunion. We had a great time. My aunt and uncle's house is pretty amazing with a tennis court and pool. We got a lot of mileage out of that pool as it was incredibly hot the whole weekend. The house was big but there were about 40 of us there so Brian and I ended up in a tent in the back yard. The major draw back of the tent was the fact that we couldn't sleep past about 8 o'clock when the sun would heat the tent to unbearable temperatures. The best part about the weekend was the meals. Every night a different family would be in charge of dinner for 40 and breakfast the next morning. Every meal was wonderful. I really have to start eating better when I'm at home, first step, go to the grocery store.

We all got blue "Hadley Reunion" t-shirts and had our individual pictures taken in the back yard by the chicken coup. My cousin Kirstie will now stitch all of us together in one big happy family photograph, technology at work my friends. I can't wait to see the result.

Brian and I then drove back down to Northern Virginia on Saturday night after dinner since we were afraid of what the Sunday traffic would look like. We had a relaxing Sunday, with lunch at Jaipur (an amazing Indian restaurant in Fairfax, which you should all try) and dinner at my parents house. We also saw Talladega Nights, which was funny but lacked the great supporting characters that Anchorman had. I was so exhausted from the weekend that I managed to sleep the entire plane ride home, which I haven't done since I was about 10.

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