Tip of the day: when meeting with someone to configure their new software to the needs of their office, be extra special sure that the person with whom you are meeting knows… oh, I dunno, ANYTHING about said office.
Otherwise, it’s sort of a waste of my your time.
With that, let’s have the Monday Mission 2.20
1. When was the last time you went out with a true love of yours? What did you two do that made it so special?
Hmm. It’s been an embarassingly long time unless you count movies. Jackie and went to Spiderman together (she loved it, and of course I did), and we geeked out together and went to see Episode Two together at the midnight showing, where the uber-geeks in full costume were almost as entertaining as the movie itself.
2. Which far-away friend would you most like to see again?
Virg. Since I’m lousy with email and a goddamn useless sack of excrement when it comes to phone-calling, a face to face meeting is simply much more preferable.
3. Any high or low points about this past weekend? What went on?
Cripes. Exhausting. 870 pounds of stone flagging went down, 50+ bags of cedar chips, several hundred dollars in plantlife, and we’re at something that vaguely resembles a half-way point (it doesn’t look incomplete, but we know we’re about halfway through the things we’d like to accomplish this year). We’ll probably pause at this point for awhile, just to let our lawn fund reinflate.
Highs: It’s great to have gotten done as much as we did.
Lows: I never ever want to do something like that again.
4. I’ve been thinking about getting a buzz-cut for the summer, a big change for me. Have you ever made any drastic changes to your appearance?
I stopped showing up for work at my last job, that’s a pretty drastic change in appearance. Har har. (In related news, said job has had 3 additional rounds of layoffs since I left — it’s like hearing that the Titanic sank a few days after you were called back to the mainland and had to cut your cruise vacation short.
Serious answer: couple dye-jobs when I was in college, but when I went from blonde to brown, my friends couldn’t find me in a crowd.
5. How long do you think a couple should date before they get married? Or if you are married, do you think you should have waited longer to get hitched?
I’d say two years. 18 months at the very least. Jackie and I dated for a year and 3 months before getting engaged, and were engaged for just short of 4 years before we got married, so no, I don’t think we should have waited any longer.
6. I just found out my long-time friend does not like Star Wars (!) and has only seen the original 1977 movie! Have you ever discovered anything new or shocking about a long-time friend you thought you knew everything about?
I gamed with a guy in college that had never read the Lord of the Rings. That was weird.
Another friend was divorced when I met him, but it was 3 or 4 years later when I discovered that he’d been married for quite a long time and had gotten the divorce only a few months before we’d met. It’s factored into almost none of our interaction, so it was very strange to think of him as a long-time husband and short-time divorce’.
7. Well we had a nice picnic and saw the sunset, but now it’s dark and I think we should liven things up. Let’s call some of your friends and go out. Who do you want to invite and where should we all go?
Go out? At night? Can’t we just have some people over here and hang out? Maybe a few board games — I know Dave and Margie have a couple they haven’t had a chance to play yet, Rey and Juli have that copy of Guillotine that I’d like to try out, or Randy could bring over Settlers of Catan — that looks cool.
