pointless meetings
Just hanging out at Mum & Dad’s place after battling some crazy Sydney traffic to get home this evening. I went up to Castle Hill to pick up my poor one-armed father, who is itching to get his cast off next week and ride his bike again… but yes, the traffic getting there, and then just around Castle Hill was quite crazy.
Today was an interesting day. Not in anyway as positive and work-filled as yesterday was.
Firstly there was the extra long, extra boring meeting at about 10:30 that dragged onto lunchtime. It’s not really my customer to look after, but I play a small part in the account, so apparently I have to be there. And find some way to keep myself amused while they talk about data networks, landlines, and other boring stuff. They did talk about wireless data for about 10 minutes which fed me for just a little while.
But the day turned around a bit then - headed down to King St Wharf, and to the James Squire Brewhouse for some quality lunch and red wine with Robbie. I don’t drink any of the James Squire beers, but the food was fantastic. And eating along King St Wharf is always awesome. It was brilliant to catch up one-on-one with Robbie too… it’d been way too long. Loved hearing stories about how much he’s relying on God for all his overseas planning and missioning. Gonna miss having him around to talk nerd and cars with.
That was a good break up of the day… cos after lunch there was time for a short amount of work before heading downstairs for some pointless training. Training on data cards that we launched 5 months ago to the day, and that I’ve been selling and using for that whole 5 months. Intense training too… like how to install the software, and what comes in the box. Great stuff for shop people… stupid stuff for corporate sales people who are expected to know things like that as a staple to getting through a day with our customers. So yes, I left the training feeling like I’d wasted quite a bit of time.
Mmm, that was quite a cynical post, wasn’t it?
Glass of red is almost finished, so it’s time to head home and have an early night I think.
