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so this morning i went into my boss' office to confirm that a handout i was working on looked okay. looks fine. - he said - and, of course, this is what you'll be reading in the plenary session tomorrow. uh... plenary? yes. - he said - i sent the powerpoint out last week. um... powerpoint? yes. - he said - i will find it & send it again. which he did - he forwarded his message from last week, and guess what? i was not copied on the original message. if i had not gone to ask him about the layout of the handout today, i would not have even gone to the meeting tomorrow. wow.

one of the most magnificent things about watching football on tivo is not having to hear that "saved by zero" toyota commercial. it gets an a+ in annoying. tonight's m-n-f game is live & in person from a city quite near to moi. in this city today - there was a major zig ziglar motivational rahrah session with colin powell, rudy guiliani, pat summit, & bruce pearl. this motivational convention brought at least 16,000 additional people into town, severely frogging the morning rush hour. the convention was going to let out right about the time folks would be converging on downtown for the pre-game activities. nice timing. i mean, what eejit schedules a motivational convention the same day as m-n-f is in town?

this morning, someone put some yummy lemon pound cake by the coffee pot. the kind with the crunchy, sugary glaze on top. that's the best part - where the cake is brown & sort of split & crunchy itself at the top, and then that sugary glaze - mmmm. so, i removed the best part of one piece - just one piece - and popped it in my mouth. someone else probably likes cake bottoms, so i kindly left it for that person. mmmmm - yeah!

in a headline from the entertainment world - ll cool j has quit as the opening act for the jackson's tour. jackson's tour? there's a jackson's tour? wha da freak?

you know how on a suit jacket, the tails will be tacked together so that they don't get ripped during shipment & sales -- but you are supposed to cut the tails apart before you wear it? yeah, well, my boss was apparently wearing a new suit today. i did not think it was my place to tell him his tails were tied. heh heh. yeah.