SH*T...He's still alive...

For those that lack familiarity with classic stand-up comedy, that's a line from a great Denis Leary bit (from his "No Cure for Cancer" show - definitely worth a listen if you're unfamiliar with his work). It also describes Dr. Nerd's feeling about himself right now. I survived dinner with big boss man, who took the news of my limited functionality surprisingly well. In fact, he didn't flip out at all, much less the code orange I was expecting...it seems as though the three scotches and 2 glasses of wine were enough to soothe the savage beast. Meanwhile, it's 11:30 at night, I'm buzzed after 2 liters of beer (roughly 5 pints I think) with dinner, watching the top 10 Linkin Park videos of all time (apparently MTV still plays music videos in some countries), with my first meeting at 7:00 tomorrow morning.

Oh yeah, despite assurances from account manager lady that it was fixed, my device still doesn't work...

If there's a bright side to this somewhat unfortunate beginning, I may have indirectly helped a co-worker (who may or may not be among my microscopic audience) with one of her technical difficulties. She hasn't had a working phone in her office in 2 days. The answers she's gotten from our "technical" staff have been abous as absurd as those that I normally get ("reboot your phone" was the most logical suggestion they gave, of course, it didn't work). In a purely selfish move, I brought colleague's problems up to big boss man at dinner in an effort to deflect from my own issues. He took it surprisingly well, asking me in a calm, rational tone why the eff these effing people cant get something as simple as an effing phone to work the way it's effing supposed to. I, calmly, tried explaining to him that it's because the people who are in charge of making the stuff work the way it's supposed to don't understand how it's supposed to work in the first place. He laughed, and sent an email off to the person responsible for the phones, saying that this co-worker's phone better effing be working by Monday morning. I really don't have much confidence in their ability to get it working by Monday morning, but on the off chance that it does and on the more off chance that said co-worker sees this, you're welcome ;-)

adios for now