Happy birthday daddy, I love you!

I remember when I used to get my dad's birthday off work. Boy, those days are long gone.

I was given a couple of really good tickets to see "Vigil" tomorrow night, but everyone I asked is busy over the holiday weekend (I'm sensing a trend). I don't want to go solo, so if you would like a pair of tickets, (free) or if you would like to go, let me know. Olympia Dukakis and Marco Barricelli are in it. Should be good.

*UPDATE* I didn't want the hasslw ir stress of unloading the tickets so I returned the tickets to my friend. Since they've been a subscriber for eons, they're going to see if they can change the date.

Typing this on my phone is very arduous. Bah.

Phew!  On a break from day 1 of the Ops Conference I mentioned yesterday.  Of course I returned to a desk full of work, which I expected.  I go back at 2pm.  I'm hoping I'm out of there no later than 4:15pm.

So far the presentations have been pretty good, if you can call Anti Money Laundering, Cash Management and Human Resources good. :-)  I learned a lot and I have a lot to convey to my staff in our next staff meeting.

Next up for me is two hours of Compliance (industry rules and regulations).  Can't. Wait. 

And don't forget my generous offer from yesterday to allow any of you to come over and bring or fix me dinner tonight since I'm going to be wiped out from the conference. HA! 

I bet a nickel I end up fixing my own dinner tonight.

It's that time again.  Every year around this time we have our annual Operations Council Conference at work.  Friday shouldn't be too bad.  I think it ends at 3pm, so I'll be able to bail at my regular time. Tomorrow is going to be a really long day as we have a speaker and Q&A that doesn't even start until 4:15pm.....So that means the last two hours tomorrow are going to be "Compliance" (rules and regulations) and then a Division Manager address, then Q&A.  I can't even leave early because I need to be there for that stuff.  At least I got out of going to the dinner and I can just go home afterwards.

So, hey if you want to meet me at my apartment around 5pm tomorrow with an already cooked delicious dinner or if you want to come over and cook me dinner, please feel free

:-) 

Gotham likes bacon, so if you could bring some along for him, he'd appreciate it.

Seriously though, it will be really nice to see some of the other Ops people.  I only get to see them once a year and they're a great group and a fantastic resource when I need help.

Okay - new topic: Is it me or is it rude to want to come into my firm, present to my people, yet refuse to pay for lunch, have me print all of your presentation materials (in color), supply you with a projector and laptop, load your presentation onto the laptop for you  AND bring an extra person in without letting me know (so I didn't order them lunch).  It's just me, right?  That's not rude AT ALL.

Oh well, all in a days work.  A long day's work.  In fact, this week seems to be a really long week.