Post a Comment On: A Nod to Nothing

It'll be quiet for a day or two here - I'm on 13 hour days, if you don't include the extra time I logged on the weekend. I've got training I'm delivering at work, twenty hours over two and a half days, by myself, and I think I've found exactly the activity that I obssess over so much that it's disturbing - not looking like an idiot in front of the trainees. There's copying, stapling, a guest speaker or two, making sure the training computers have software installed and the browsers are configured, making sure hands on training materials are configured and new scripts are written to handle the hands on work (because they didn't exist before), validating the nasty connection in the meeting room works as well as it can for doing presentatoins and that my video drivers are reconfigured to handle an overhead instead of dual monitors, reading up on what to present to make sure I haven't missed anything and have scribbled down appropriate anecdotes and local business unit-specific examples, relevant technologies, reading up on tangents to those relevant technologies, taking the out of towners to lunch, referring them to good local bars (or at least prime areas with multiple bars - last night their taxi driver took them to strip club central in Minneapolis), putting together ad hoc presentation sections based on some assumptions from the first day about their interests, and then catching up on all the email I didn't address during the day. Fortunately, there's beer in the fridge.