Randombirthday

- It's my birthday today. (And if that doesn't elicit more than the typically wonderful 3-5 comments, I may be done with blogging....grrr. ;)

- "It's my party and I'll grrr if I want to, grrr if I want to..."

- I have a significant pile of evidence showing that someone is out to make the week of my birthday a hell week. First was a salesman making a royal screwup that will ultimately reflect poorly on my expense sheet, not to mention the royally bad attitude towards the guy and everyone else within reach, on top of the pain trying to get it all worked out. Next was 2, make that two, failures of the fire system at work, resulting in a lot of off-hours work for me (and no one else...except the plumber, who's getting paid for it) and visits from the wonderful firemen. Next was an assignment to sit through a super boring online class on business risk. And then there's that reminder that I'm getting older.

- This time of the year really sucks. There's nothing to do here so everyone's attitude goes to shit, including mine, people's performance falls off resulting in more mistakes made than when we were busy, and the littlest irks get under everyone's skin. I swear, if that salesman had been here, I would have punched him in the face. It's not enough that he knows I loath him for this.

- I'm back to taking that Dale Carnegie class. The short version, thank goodness. One good note is that of the 21 people attending the class, I can remember 41 of the first and last names. For the life of me, I cannot remember Mr. Maze's first name. They do this picture association game to help us remember names. Works pretty well, except Mr. Maze's picture was of him 'racing through a corn field.' What first name is associated with racing?

- One guys name is John Weber. His picture is of him sitting on the toilet flipping burgers. Three more are associated with some kind of alcohol. Reisling for Reisel, Miller for....Miller, and Guiness for Inness. And one lady's last name is Hinds. Yes, the mental picture of her is her slapping her butt. For me to remember that many names 3 days after meeting them is saying something. The last time I did that class, I'm not sure I remembered half of them. Using that skill in real life is something else though. Two of the plumbers I've talked to in the last 2 days told me their name, which I promptly forgot.


- So maybe this wasn't as random as I'd first imagined. My brain is shutting down and can't come up with any more randomness.