Thursday, 10-26-6

I just wasted an hour and a half of my life bumbling through some techno-geek’s idea of a good time.  Probably the most self-indulgent bucket of horseshit I’ve seen in a long time.  I had to complete the latest company security training on line and it’s spoon fed so sloooowwwwllllly!  Instead of being webdriven or even the dreaded PowerPoint presentation, I was forced to sit through a Java-based presentation that had beautiful (but useless) graphics.  It took 30 to 40 seconds to load each page and on each page there was probably 8 seconds of information.  Of course, it took the narrator 20 seconds to read it.  If you skip over the narration, you don’t get credit for the course and it is required to have it completed by the 31^st.  Really in-depth and pertinent information like, “don’t give out your SSN to strangers” and “don’t throw papers with SSN on them in the trash, they must be shredded”.  Ohhh man, now I’m ready to face the world of identity thieves.  Armed with information that any moron should already know I can now move on and hopefully forget about the fact that someone in the company was paid a lot of money to waste my precious time.

Speaking of wasting my time, I finished all the circuits on my schedule at 2pm today.  Monday I drove to Orlando, Tampa and Ft. Myers.  Tuesday, worked all day in Ft. Myers and drove to Orlando.  Wednesday, worked ALL day and drove back to Ft. Myers.  I was on overtime as of Wednesday night.  Bob sent me back down here to finish the last 3 services.  After we finished up, Bob wanted Keith and I to work one last circuit in the area so we don’t have to come back next week.  Of course, access is denied to the last location so here I sit in another hotel, waiting for morning before I can test this last circuit and then hurry home in time to pretend to enjoy my “normal” life.  I’ll clear 70 hours again this week and then back out on the road to rack up some more.  It’s like playing a really bad video game and you don’t really like it but just about the time you start to enjoy it because you’re racking up a high score, someone hits reset and you start from zero again.  Every Monday morning, the game resets and I chase my tail again.