Seriously…It was a bad week.

I don’t know why I was in such a good mood all week. In most respects I had a bad week. Just about anything that could go wrong did. Yet my mood was pretty jovial most of the time. Even when NWA for the umpteenth time had flight delays and I missed my connection in Detroit. I was actually expecting something like that so it wasn’t that big of a deal. Even when they couldn’t book me on the next 2 or 3 flights I was ok. Instead I canceled that segment and rented a car. Driving for 3 and ½ hours seemed to make more sense than sitting in an airport for seven hours, then flying for 1 and ½ hours, to finally dive the final ½ hour anyway. It was actually kind of nice to just cruise through Michigan and then Ohio on my own, toons cranked, and windows down. When I finally did get to Dayton I was amused to find that I was supposed to take a new hire to lunch that day in the Minneapolis office. Wasn’t sure how that was supposed to work but I fired back I would take him to lunch on Friday. They had in fact decided not to notify me until 50 min before I was supposed to meet him! They must have forgotten that consultants travel or something… Then next day I actually got the notice from corporate that I was the new hires guide. You know, a day after he started. Well I suppose this happens in any corporation.

The next day was relatively uneventful except I woke up with a large cancerous type growth on my face. A nice cold sore had sprouted in the night. Well that’s ok I guess I don’t mind being a freak for a couple weeks. Though, it does hurt when I try to eat as it scabbed in the corner of my mouth. I also found out that I would be flying solo that week as the other analyst I am working with couldn’t make it in due to family issues. This means some delays and all but again I actually didn’t care much. I actually looked forward to a week of tracking things down on my own. So I spent a good portion of the week researching loose ends and tracking down date. That is when I wasn’t tediously administering our online coloration tool. One of the clients simply could not figure it out and it took me more than 3 hours to correct all of the mistakes she had made. But they were such silly mistakes I think I was laughing most of the time and so even that didn’t bother like it normally would.

The only real work related issue I think I had was the fact that mid morning one day my laptop died. I mean black screen, no windows, would not boot up died. After an hour on the phone with our support desk – conveniently outsourced to India – I had a trouble ticket in and was heading into the closest office. When I got to the office I was informed that the tech is only in the office on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Hmm ok that’s cool I have a business information security meeting that afternoon, who needs a computer for that. Oh I guess I do. Well I took up residence in one of the local offices and got a hold of someone from the local support. He had a plan, a scary plan that had the reception swapping my hard drive to a new computer. It worked and I was off – back to the client site. Still the whole event was entertaining so I was more amused than anything.

To top off my work woes for the week: I was back in the home office on Friday and talking to another analyst that started with the firm the same week I did. I find out that his whole team was given – GIVEN – brand new video Ipods! WTF mate. I mean come on! I’m doing a good job where is my new and free video Ipod? Just wondering. I guess I can’t be to mad at someone else’s good luck but it does make you wonder. The difference is his project is billing time and material, making boocoo dollars while mine is a fixed fee project just make boo dollars. Bummer maybe next time eh.

Now that was just the work related stuff. LOL. My truck was also towed from in front of my house. I guess the city figures 1 day notice is enough. They posted the sign on Tuesday and towed on Wednesday. Fun, so that was an additional $200 I really didn’t want to spend. I can’t be super mad I had accidentally taken both sets of keys with me so no one could move it. But still one day notice, that is sub par if you ask me. On Thursday night then, poor RB had to deal with me on the way to, while lost looking for, and while dealing with the city impound lot. So that did finally put me in a bad mood, though I don’t think for long.

But in all fairness it was review week for the project and my review went splendidly. This may have skewed the week to being a good week I think, even with all the extra fun. So since it is the only project I was on my first year it will probably be the basis for my year end review. Hopefully this translates into good things come compensation adjustment time!