I think it is late Tuesday morning there. It's almost 9:00PM Monday night here in California.

ToddAC,

Since you first mentioned this last week, I have been struggling. I just can't find a way to get from point A to point B. You have used the exact same words twice now and no matter how I play it, it doesn't ring true. You imply that WW is embarassed about you having large medical bills and that somehow makes her less worthy as a person. No. She, of all people, should understand the nature of medical expenses (in the USA) and the purpose of medical insurance.

If she has any shame about an employee reviewing your records, the shame is that they can see that she has abandoned you in your time of need. She can cover it up, sugar coat it, hide it everywhere else but the one place that hits home for her is in her company's database. That is an indelible paper trail to her shameless infidelity and a permanent testament to the type of person she is. That, IMHO, is why she is ashamed. She couldn't give a rat's eyelash that you are costing her fellow employees $3.17 more a month in medical premiums.

If she were that concerned for them, she could give each one a GWTW doll and call it even.

It's late Tuesday morning HERE.

No it is 4:00 PM in Kiwiland. She and Rob are probably out zorbing.

"It's late Tuesday morning HERE."

When did you move?

I didn't imply anthing. I merely characterized her email. Her dad taught his kids that you don't impose on others. Whenever we would go to buy a car, she would take the car salesman's side and tell me that I am being too hard on him. I had to negotiate against three people: salesman, sales manager and my wife.

I'll never forget my first trip to the ER. OM drove us although I did not realize his status as OM at the time. There I am in an ER treatment room, wires and tubes everywhere, head splitting open and numbness on my right side. Wife no where to be found. She was in lobby sitting with OM because she didn't want him "to be alone".

Sorry for the t/j. The treatments are kinda stressful and causing flashbacks.

And BTW, no it was not OM's neck either. I said I would use a crimping tool; I meant it literally.

believer,

Don't forget I am up at 3:00 AM.

I learned some of the tricks car salesmen use. First they want you to make an emotional attachment to the car. I bought a Jeep Grand Cherokee years ago. I negotiated the price with the salesman, all the extras, etc. We get into the room to sign the contract and he tells me now that the car will cost an extra $2500 over and above the negotiated price because it had undercoating.

I was shocked. I said I didn't want to pay $2500 more so I wanted the undercoating removed or I didn't want the car. He and the sales manager scratched their heads for a few minutes and I got the undercoating for no additional charge. That had to be a first for them.

It is 4.34pm on Tuesday afternoon here in Kiwiland or The Land of the Long White Cloud as some call it, or Aoteoroa, it's Maori name.

I knew Todd wasn't going to crimp the OM's neck. (duh)

Well, the talk. It went better than I expected. Part of the problem is indeed my subordinate but a lot of the problem (as I suspected) is my management of my subordinate. ie lack of delegation and not taking proper supevisionery control.

I dropped the ball this week which is another thing that has been weighing heavily on me. We are holding an extremely important book launch next week and because of my taking everything on (semester also started last week) and delegating as I should have, I was very late getting the invitations out.

I know for a fact the event will be a success, but my Head of Department is not happy and has put down my failure to do what HE wanted first to the ongoing problems in the Department.

My manager did tell me that with more confidence and a bit of a tweak I was capable of doing any job that came up in the University (administratively that is).

So, some negatives, some positives, nothing I didn't already know and haven't already beaten myself up over.

Thanks BTW Pio, I read your advice to me this morning. It was all good.

So I put 2 + 2 together and got 6.

Dang

I thought Pio was making a joke that Todd's medication ran out and he went nutz about the time he arrived here. LOL.

Resuming your regularly scheduled programming.

I'll shut up now.

Threat or promise?

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ahem

Shaddup Jen

Oh where's that tongue poky out icon thingy?

Good comeback BigK.

I'm SO impressed.

and easily impressed too if I may say so.

It is : pfft : but without the spaces between the colons and the pfft.

Spaces between colons are bad.

LOL and also so relieved my "talk" is over. Now I have to put it all into practice.

Aren't other people's (ie mine) work problems boring? I'll never mention mine again.

My sister had a space between her colons for about 6 months. She hated it and eventually had it surgically reversed. I can't remember exactly why the doctors put the space there. Even after the reversal, it has not been entirely successful.

What is the medical name for the two colons? The ascending and the [censored]-ending?

ROTFLMAO Pio

Now I remember - the three parts of the large colon:

ascending, transverse and [censored]-ending.

Sis had the space between the little colon and the big colon. I am so confused.

You're confused? How do you think I feel?

Well if I beed you, I would feel humiliated after that comeback to KiwiJ. Even "I'm rubber and you're glue" would have been an improvement. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

LOL

Not colons, please not colons.

I feel like the weight of the world has been lifted off my shoulders.

Oops, talking about work again.