It'll get better soon.....really.

This morning while crossing over I-94 on the River Road, it smelled like mini-donuts. Believe me, I distinctly recognize that smell and it was mini-donuts. Maybe the little vagrants under the bridge by the falls took a break from creating graffiti art to fry up a few.

I had a training session yesterday for the new financial system we're getting in July. It was filled with the usual - the couple of people who are a split-second ahead of the instructor by asking questions on material that she's about to answer (if they would have shut the hell up for a few seconds I could have gotten out of there 20 minutes earlier), the row of computers that don't work quite right, and the chairs with arm rests that are too low and nonadjustable.

There was an assistant instructor for the last half of the session who is lucky to have all of her limbs attached this morning. We were reviewing the new feature to further define how many times a document is put into the cue for processing. The options were don't, once, and always. I think this is pretty clear. You don't even have to know what the cue is or why a document would go in it to understand those three options. The assistant instructor felt we needed further coddling, so she walks to the front of the room and proceeds with the following:

"Let me bring this down to Kindergarten level for you. Let's say that I'm a school bus driver and you're a kid on the corner. If you choose the "always" option, I'll always stop to pick you up. If you choose the "once" option, then I'll only stop once to pick you up. And if you choose the "don't" option, well, then I won't stop at all". Let me bring this down to a threatening level for you. If you ever attempt to use a metaphor not only as ridiculous as that one but in a place where it is completely uncalled for, I will find a school bus and run you the fuck over. The real instructor was irked by her presence also. She actually pulled her own hair at one point. I saw her. It was very funny.

While I realize that I started this new blog page with the anticipation of creating something much more worthwhile to read, I ask for your patience as I continue to modify my document and g-file management techniques. Let me bring this down to Kindergarten level for you - me go work now.