July 28, 2009 – practice for presentation
Well, the day has been long. The time has been worth it.
We practiced for a long time on our presentation for tomorrow. Tomorrow’s presentation is a dry-run for a few people. The dry run is basically a practice before we do the real deal in from of entire company. The Case Competition has been fun, a lot of work, and worth it. I enjoyed the rehearsal time today with one of my Mentors, Troy. The one-on-one time was only because one of the other team members went back to work and the other member left the room because we sort of had a misunderstanding.
The misunderstanding is hard to explain. Basically one person said something to me. I said something back. The other person took it wrong. I said something back and the other person walked away. Well, that is how misunderstandings go.
But, we are able to keep working together. That is one of the benefits of the experience. You think you have patience for people and then it is put to the test. Then you have to decide if you are going to keep that patience going. There is something so important about stepping back and just letting the good happen. Don’t let impatience get in the way of building bridges. Don’t let impatience or judgements get in the way of you being taught by other people. When be teachable is more important, take it.
Anyway that is some of the deep thoughts from me today.
July 13
Listening to the Stone Roses, I wanna be Adored.
Thinking about how great the past weekend was.
What a great load of opportunities in front of me.
Some say good things about me at work, that is a good thing. For once, the good things. For once, I’m not fighting my personality. For once, I am pushing forward.
July 9
Been a long day, lots of meetings. ongoing projects. Ending day with group project and leaving now. Interviews went well. Brain is exhausted.
July 8
I did not get to do good writing this morning.
Had a good learning opportunity at work. I listened in to the Webex that was going on about the product I am writing about. Really cool opportunity to listen to people in Uruguay that will help customers, the host in Europe, and a few of us in Texas on the same call. We could see the host work on her screen. I quickly grabbed a few screen shots that I did not have.
Had one interview with exec about our project. We have a lot more work to do now. Can’t spill the beans about what we are doing. It is one of a kind.
Have one more interview today with a tech guy in our company.
Then off to Writers group if I am not too worn out.
Finished working the main part of Rainey’s site last night. Sent link to her and have not heard back yet. Hope they approve and then I can move forward. Need to work on my site, it looks like crap. How many times am I going to say that.
What a weekend
All I know is that the weekend was busy. I am happy to be back at work to take a break from all the fun. Whoo.
Well, actually I would love to do it all again.
I think the best part was watching the kids have fun. They enjoyed Thursday night dinner with Denise’s parents. Denise had a steak on her birthday. Yeah. Still working on getting her dad to take the steaks off the grill before they are dried out and chewy.
Friday the kids enjoyed Mimi and Granddady’s place; the kiddy pool, the baby, and food. I loved watching Devri eat her steak. I had a helping annoying hand in getting my dad to cook the steaks for only so long so it would be medium rare for Denise. She would have eaten it either way but, I like to try and get it right for her, which we did.
Saturday I had to work at Starbuck the first part of the day. Then we all went to meet up with Mimi and Grandaddy again in Forth Worth. We sat outside to eat hot dogs, which pleased David, and waited for the fireworks. We waited until 10:00 and left. I wonder if anyone got to see them. I had to be at work early the next morning.
Sunday was work and take the family to eat at Olive Garden. Why bother cooking at that point. The night was capped off with a very poplular movie that I am not fond of: Twilight. I know Talledaga Nights did not meet the Standards it should have either. It’s hard to pick a good movie.
