View From the Bushes

Just about every afternoon this week I have a three hour meeting with a different CMS (Content Management Software) vendor. I'm not precisely sure exactly what it is about meetings that saps my will to live, but the effect is undeniable. My current theory is that it's boredom. I'm reasonably sure that if I could bring a book to read that the meeting would be just fine, but mostly people expect me to pay attention and take notes. The latter activity does provide some respite, since I can pretty much write down anything in my notebook and no one will care, though in the past I have gotten in trouble for some of my more ambitious doodles, particularly the ones that required borrowing the notebook of the guy next to me to use as a straight edge.

These meetings, combined with the interviews I've been attending for a new position in our group, has left me with very little time to handle the flood of minor content changes which have been piling up on my desk since the lady who is normally in charge left for Germany. Many of the changes I found in a huge pile on my keyboard Monday morning, presumably tossed there as she ran through the building on her way to the airport. Fortunately the new spam filter we put in at work over the weekend has been a godsend. I went from 500 spam messages a day to about a half dozen. And so far we haven't had a single complaint of a false positive.

Well, those two paragraphs were pretty boring and I don't know that I really have anything better in store for the last paragraph. As my wife has long warned me about, too much loud music on the headphones can be bad for your hearing. Apparently many people are concerned that the hearing loss we're seeing at the moment is just the tip of the iceberg. That's all for now, folks.

What did you say again?
Ross