And this ends a semi-uneventful day 2 of Dr. Nerd's international adventure. Slept late following last night's depressing escapade at the hotel bar (cute nerd girl's company packed up and left this morning, and with her went my chances...thanks ECB). ECB still trying to screw with me via email, testing my resolve (and I'm winning - woo hoo).
Had some good meetings today, including lunch with a former client, which took awkward to new heights. We've always been close with this particular ex client, so much so that she's more of a friend than anything else. At lunch, she mentioned that I was "looking good," (awkward moment #1) asked how much weight I had lost since our last meeting (1A) and asking what my "secret" was (1B). Before I could give the fall-back answer (I was sick for a month), she noticed the absence of my wedding ring and demanded to know what was up. I gave her the quickie explanation, that ECB told me she wanted out and I couldn't be happier, and before I could finish the sentence, big bossman was already asking ex client lady (very attractive for her age) to hook me up with any of her hottie friends before we headed back stateside. I thought I had seen all the awkward situations I could, but when I was sitting there with boss and former client, listening to them discuss the arrangement potential one-night-stands on my behalf, I realized that THIS was the most awkward, potentially scariest, moment of my life. I appreciated the fact that I had people "looking out" for me, but Jeebus...this was too much.
Now, to find the tech tie-in...I came back to my room after the meetings for a little break before dinner with bossman and noticed that our email was down again (based on the dozen IMs I received from colleagues within ~10 minutes of logging on). Went to dinner and bossman wasn't aware until he received an email from one of the clients we met yesterday and noticed that the "send" time stamp was ~3 hours before he received it. I spent the rest of dinner drinking, listening to him bust all sorts of balls on our IT people and various others in the organization. A half bottle of wine and liter of beer later, and he was calm again...our email may or may not be working right now, but I've got enough of a buzz that I don't care. Stopped into the bar before coming up to my room, but no cute nerd-girls to be found. I wasn't "on the prowl" or anything, but figured there was no harm in peeking in to make sure cute nerd girl wasn't there.
ECB emailed me asking for help with an email following up on a job interview she had recently. I think it might help take her away from me for an extra weekend (and bring her closer to being geographically out of my life forever), so it's worth the 5 minutes I'll spend on it before passing out.
Bye for now...
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