29 March 2007
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There go my modelling contracts...
I've booked
my flights for Canada!
But unfortunately the Montreal gig is STILL not confirmed, so
it may end
up being on the 15th or 21st and I will miss it... :(
I am flying out of Denver at 1 AM on Monday, April 16th, which
should get
me into Buffalo in the late Monday morning. I'm stopping over
in new York.
So that means no sleep, but I'm also saving on a hotel the
night before I
will go "sightseeing" in Denver on Sunday. Even
though Kristine claims
there aren't any sights!
I will spend 2 days in Niagara Falls, and then on Wednesday,
Kristine and
Barb plus fianc� will join me and the madness can begin!
Apparently Barb travels with even more stuff than Kristine,
including
coolers and water supply (?)! Well, at least she'll bring the
car!
The plan is to drive to Montreal on Thursday, and then back to
Toronto on
Friday.
My flight back to London is Saturday night from Toronto.
Amazingly, Barb has invited us to stay at their place in
Toronto! How
kind! Thank, Barb! :)
I'm worried about Julia who's had her court case and is now awaiting her verdict. It's all very scary! It makes me feel so stupid because there's nothing I can do. They may just send her back to Russia!
Stephen is
ill now, too - and off on holidays. He didn't feel well enough
to come
into Sheffield today, poor snuffles!
Tomorrow is Amanda's last day and for some reason they've
ordered pizza.
Not sure if to celebrate her "good-bye" or the good
year-end results. But
I'm already stressed out by the prospect of fatty food in
abundance! I had
chocolates earlier, don't ask me why... it just overcomes me.
:(
Speaking of
fat:
Die Zeit has an
article this week that claims
that
science shows that it's basically impossible to lose weight and
stay slim.
Only 1 in 100 (or so) manages to keep the weight off, and all
diets don't
really work. Apparently our bodies are not so easily fooled and
efficiently maintain a steady weight/metabolism.
I'm trying
to be "nice" now in ALL my e-mails. So I'm
patiently telling the
lead of my most important project how to
install that
most important tool that he should have started
using 8 months
ago, and without whose use it is NO WONDER we have been fucking
up all
along!!
Muriel was flabbergasted when I told her. It's just so very,
very
shocking! (And I didn't even swear much!)
Of course it works better if I'm nice, but I am literally
crying
into my keyboard all day long. We are so doomed. There are such
HUGE
training gaps. I'm not even sure if they could ever be filled
with
training, or if I'm simply ASKING TOO MUCH of them.
But still -- it's not bloody rocket science! I have
spent a good
part of last year training hundreds of people, and now I
realise that
about 60% of them have left (without passing on the knowledge),
and the
rest -- even though they have been working on the projects
nonstop --
appear to simply have "forgotten" the most basic
things! Maybe they are
taking the piss, trying to upset me??
It will be even MORE fun when MILS get rid of GIAA and
JetStream in a
couple of weeks! Then I can start ALL OVER again. Nobody really
knows yet
that this will be happening (Chris definitely doesn't) but I
have read the
Master Plan! LOL
The new tool doesn't look too bad -- IF it works -- but it will
probably
require another round-the-world training tour. Well, that's OK
with me!
Haha!
Today I
actually
looked at what I'm working on and discovered this cute
little gimmick:
http://maps.live.com
It's quite good!
And so
fast!
OK, it's only properly indexed for the USA at the moment, but
if you know
where you're looking you can find what you're looking
for.
A bit of contrast can make a difference, but I am too
fat.
