I mentioned a while ago that I had been selected to be one of the founding members of a new group at work. Well, found out Friday that I will FINALLY be moving to that group as of the beginning of Feb. Of course, they AREN'T going to move me to a cubicle by the window, but it looks like my obnoxious coworker will be moved out of the current cubicle (other cube-mate is also founding member of the group, and not obnoxious). Same pay,

Good flight. This was the first time I did online boarding pass and online check-in at the hotel. Both rock.

Met Johndiii. He didn't compose a sonnet to my eyes, but did (notionally) pinch my butt. Had dinner at a nice Mexican place. Watched the very happy girls night out crowd behind Johndiii. :-) Went to a Starbucks, talked about divorces, and life lessons, which morphed to politics.

I need to finish my Implementation Plan next week. Because we decided to move up our preproduction move by two weeks to Feb 1. Because we really couldn't see a good reason not to[1]. We can't change our actual production move because our shared security service and some mainframe stuff we rely on in another area all need to move together. But WE are ahead of schedule.

Dogbert rocks.

Had a conversation with my son this morning, that went along these lines:

Son: [whatever request]
Me: No
S: Why?
M: Because I'm the dad and I said so.
S: Well, I'm the Congress and I vote 2/3. Override!

even if the story IS from the NYT. [figure out how to log on yerself]

The headlights of the No. 1 train appeared. "I had to make a split decision," Mr. Autrey said.

So he made one, and leapt....

I'm a natural at this shit.
sigh.
(Which is to say that work is going well.)

Finally got executive feedback on my first draft project plan[1]. All 27 pages of it. All of the comments/suggestions were of the verbage type (Will^WMay, etc.). This was quite a difference from the Project Charter, whose draft was awash in red ink. I made sure I understood the reasons behind the red ink, and it paid dividends. Not only in logic, but in the agendas of the stakeholders.

The Comcast guy was very pleasant, professional, helpful, etc today. Didn't directly fix my problems. Directly. He did rule out actual transport layer issues. It was NOT the fault of the comcast network. Got a new modem, some new splitters, and a new length of cable out of it though. :-)

(despite the fact that Miss Bethanie beat me to the punch. Hopefully not foreshadowing, as those who read to the end shall see.)

I hope 2006 will be remembered fondly by one and all. Except that 2007 rocked so much more. I expect that will be the case for me.

bar

From the bottom of my heart.
(doing housecleaning :-P)

Good christmas at the Warrior household. which is probably the only house on the block decorated in humbug fashion. :-) (all the Christmas stuff is in the workshop awaiting next year when I officially have my son for the holiday.)

Just finished my weeky project status meeting (11:30 - make your meetings just before lunch, and it's easier to stay on-agenda :->) with the contractors. Reading through one of their weekly status reports (due 30 min before the meeting, to give me time to scan & highlight anything that looks odd), and came across the following:

Clarification: Calling all Geeks who are readining my journal in the normal course of wandering through the zoo. If you're reading this because it appeared on the front page, despite my selecting "Post", please piss off. 'Cuz journals don't belong on the front page. And I only want opinions from the WASHED masses. Thanks for your time. :-P

I just now looked at my "fans" list and noticed that a few people like me! I must admit to being pleased, yet somewhat dumbfounded by this development. I was also struck by the question, "Why did these people bother to 'friend' me?". Was it something I said? Maybe my sig (it seems pretty popular)? Maybe you were just testing out the system and I was the lucky scapegoat? Well, I figure its worth asking here, if you're adding me to a friends list, why exactly?