Work conversation I just witnessed
Lesser boss: What sort of assignment should we give to Lance?
Big boss: Since he's a new guy, we've got to find out what he's capable of.
Lesser boss: What do you have in mind?
Big boss [completely straight-faced]: I don't know. Just find a weasel with rabies, light it on fire, and throw it at him; see what he does with it.
Lesser boss: [laughs]
Big boss: [continues to be stone-faced]
Myself: [tries not to laugh and wonders how big boss described my assignment]
B
In an effort to spend less on airline tickets, I set up an Outlook reminder at work to let me know when tickets go on sale for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Months ago, I carefully determined that Southwest Airlines books X days in advance (where X ~120). Yesterday, I noticed that it will be X days until Thanksgiving next week. I decided to check the webstite just to verify that I had 7 days until sales began.
To my dismay, they were already selling tickets through December 10! Now, all the cheap tickets for Thanksgiving are gone and I had to pay $90 more than I would have. I have no idea why they are now booking X + Y days in advance (where Y = 21). It's times like this that I feel unnecessary expenditures are inevitable, no matter how many calculated measures are implemented to avoid them. This makes me angry.
There's still Christmas tickets to be had, though. However, since it seems they change their booking rules at whim, I have no choice but to log on daily to see when they go on sale. I'm anxious to see what will go wrong with this new, even more vigilant, plan. Something must go wrong. Most likely, the website will probably announce that it actually traveled back in time and sold the Christmas tickets two months ago. Of course, there will be one remaining ticket, which it will gladly sell to me for about eighty-thousand-million dollars.
B
There's no time! There's no time to do anything, and I've got so much to do! I have about a month's worth of photos I need to put on the website. I want to redesign the whole website. Then there's about 12,498 other things that don't relate to the website that I have to do. Website. Argh1!!! I need an assistant!
B
The last few days were good times visiting Illinois. Now it's time to go back to California again. I don't mind my life in California. In fact, I like it a lot. However, after visiting Illinois for a few days, if someone said I didn't have to go back to California, I don't think I would. Maybe I don't like it as much as I think. Maybe I don't know anything when it comes to myself.
B