Vendor Training in Chicago

After a very brief weekend at home I am now in vendor training in Chicago, learning how to configure SAP. SAP is a large enterprise wide software application that can run an entire Fortune 500 company from sales to accounting to manufacturing control to enterprise planning. I am personally being trained on the Financial and Controlling modules. These modules tie into every aspect of the system as they record and control the money flow in the system.

Now over the weekend I really didn’t get much of a break I got in around 9:30ish and just hung out at home and watched movies with R. The following day I had a work BBQ, it was a lot of fun but after doing some online training Sunday I have done something for work for the past 13 days!! Oh well I guess that’s the way it’s going to be. Hehe. So besides work I also had time to visit with my folks for dinner, I went to a fun house warming party, went to Santana’s after midnight Saturday, and went to see The Wedding Crashers.

The Wedding Crashers BTW was a great movie. I certainly due suggest it. Thought it still doesn't top Old School but it certainly is worth going to see.

I never did really get much of a rest though.

I hope the in the next few weeks I have time to work on the house. I’ve got all the drywall finished and most of the wood work; now I have to refinish all of the stairs. It would be nice to get the windows back in before it starts to snow. It’s going to look great if I can get that and the roof refinished next spring I will have made huge progress. I think this is going to be a draw back to my job because I will have so little time to work on the house. We shall see.

So as I have absolutely no sense of organization tonight I thought it might also be interesting to recap the last week of training minus the training. The first night I went out to Champs with just my class there were like 7 of us but they are really fun people. Tuesday night we had a whole fiasco because we got 20 of the 30 people at SAP training out to P F Chang's for dinner. It was really funny to watch the waiters try to keep everything straight and then split the bill 20 different ways. Wednesday night we went to the Navy pier in downtown Chicago and hung out with some people in the Oracle training from the firm. There was a band, a lot of crazy people, and fireworks (though I have seen a lot of them this year I still love to watch)! Finally on Thursday we went out on Rush Street in Downtown. I’ve been there before but it is a lot more fun when it is warm out! People from all 3 Chicago training sites came down and we were 2/3 the clientele at the club we ended up at. It was a blast – though Friday was really hard to stay focused!

This weekend looks to be a lot more relaxed so hopefully I will finally get a rest! I’ll let you know.