It's Thursday, it's all downhill from here... This week.

I'm working on database today, just plugging away, which is good, but mind numbing. And I have a banging headache. Which I can guarantee has nothing to do with the beer I drank last night at Trivia, which our team won. I had the headache before. The Fosters made it go away for a while.

I'm afraid I'll be of little use in my hour long meeting with the new vendor that shouldn't be happening yet. (People too far up the food chain got involved and now the president of their company is here meeting our "decision makers"- unfortunately decision makers don't really do that, and this meeting is about six months premature)

And there is no agenda for the meeting. It'll be awesome. Here is a sampling of what will be sure to come.

T-what do you have to show us today?

V-well, we have...

T-I've seen that already, is it any different from last time we talked?

V-well, we did...

T-right, you told me about that. I don't really care about it, but can i see it?

V-well, its not exactly ready to...

T-I know, but neither was everything else you showed me. (Which BTW- I wasn't impressed by because every other vendor that wants this book of work already does this, and a lot better, but you snuck in and showed it to my bosses boss, so now I have to pretend like I'm paying attention) I'd like to see if we are tracking along the same lines. Can you show me?

V-well, we haven't really...

T-right, okay. well can you show me the design spec?

V-Oh, well... I left that in the office.

T-Huh, you came across country and have a laptop, but you left what we're here to talk about in the office? Well, can you tell me the spec?

V-Its complicated.

T-I know, that's why I want to see it.

V-Well I don't really understand the spec, so its hard for me to explain...

T-I know, but aren't you the one who came up with the spec?

silence

Another 57 mins to go in the meeting.

Jin Hahn,
T