{"id":38,"date":"2001-02-14T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2001-02-14T22:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/?p=38"},"modified":"2001-02-14T18:22:00","modified_gmt":"2001-02-14T22:22:00","slug":"38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

I think I may have a slightly addictive personality, which came out Monday night when I was working on a small presentation for Tuesday. The assignment was to create a 5-7 minute presentation. Now I *know* that some presentations can take 10 minutes to cover a single, high value Powerpoint page, but I still spent 3 hours<\/b> on this silly thing, which ended up being an 8 page argument for Accenture doing more sponsorship of the arts. A good chunk of that time was searching the web for the right graphics<\/i>. This is not a sign of brain cells being used in the most effective manner. Stephen Covey would not be impressed.<\/p>\n

What made it worse was that the training, and my subsequent work, was in Etobicoke (see note below<\/a> about travel to and from Etobicoke) and I hadn’t yet done my laundry, and I needed to pack for a week and a half on the west coast, where I am as I’m writing these words.<\/p>\n

Nuts.<\/p>\n

Reminds me of the time I spent 3 days working on an algebra proof for my Grade 10 math class. I ended up producing a rigorously-defined beautifully formatted 3 page proof for a problem that the teacher later admitted he’d written up incorrectly. I bet he never even looked at the result.<\/p>\n

So anyway, Monday night, I picked up sushi at Sushi Bistro on the way home (9:15), put on my laundry (9:45), ate dinner watching the National<\/a> (when did they get their new theme?), put the laundry in the dryer (10:55) and then installed and played the first mission of the Starcraft Expansion Pack<\/i> (12:15) before finally starting<\/i> to pack. Which I finished at 1:30, leading to my second night in a row of 4 1\/2 hours sleep.<\/p>\n

Tuesday we wrapped up the presentations course (which went well, although I was for some reason quite tired and didn’t do a great job on my 7 minute presentation) and I got on a plane back to Seattle, where I’m writing these words.<\/p>\n

And now for the good news: this is my last trip out here for this project. I don’t have another project lined up yet (although a couple in the ‘States are possibles) and I might actually get a few more days at home before my next project. And mom and dad, if you’re reading this: I’ll come and pick up Hoover on the March 3-4 weekend, and I’ll have my cat at home again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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