Back when I consulted\contracted I always had a spare set of attire in the car.

I know it was a 4 day week, but my team managed to relase 1 single work item last week in my absence and everything I left with other people was totally neglected. Can I fire every one?

As long as you are willing to do all of their work (168 hours per week), I can't see any reason why not.

I've found that mentoring works better for me. That helps my mood on a daily basis and it also allows me to sometimes work less than a full 40 hours a week when I'm on vacation!

-PatP

No worthy padwans here. No one has been able to take the marble from my hand, and it is just thios kind of statement that has convinced me to start working on my dreams again. I am getting up early every morning now and working on the novel BEFORE I come to work.. I am not going to die in this cube hell.

I developed that problem and the associated hopelessness on my last job working for someone else. Going back to contracting was the answer for me, especially when I found a group of like-minded contractors that work together.

I've never seen an organization quite like the one that I work for/with today, but there's more than one good reason that we are #40 on the Inc. 500 list!

-PatP

heh,heh,heh...I know where Pat works now....

I really want to check my fantasy football stats today, but I recorded the Pittsburgh game and have not watched it yet, so don't want any spoilers. For that reason also, I will not be checking in here for a couple hours while I watch it, even though you gdamn slackers have not said a word about anything but work so far today.

In other news, got l**d three times over the weekend....not bad for an old married guy. I dig hot latina chicks.

Tied, but I completed the objective in under twelve hours. What's the next challenge?

Close, but no banana!

You know what company I work for, but not which clients I work with... There's a difference.

If you had asked or your posterior was on Linked-In, you would have known that years ago. It isn't something that I blast publically (consultancies frown on that), but it isn't much of a secret either.

-PatP

I am on linkedin. Maybe twice a year.

Yesterday was a grand day for football. If I were to rewatch any game from yesterday it would be DAL v NYJ.

I do not recognize the top 50. What's the criteria. It is not Revenue or market cap.

My man card is at risk...I did not watch ANY football over the weekend. Drank lots though, and recorded the Pitt game, so maybe it can be saved. I am cooking for the family tonight though, so that is a risk. I will make sure it has beef and fried potatoes in it though, and will be drinking copious amounts of beer while I am cooking. Maybe I will be OK after all. I watched Soul Surfer and a stupid horror movie by the name of The Task last night with the entire family piled in the bed...even though I had to go to Redbox to rent them while I have 4 perfectly good netflix envelopes here. Damn kids. I am going to stop listening to kid recommendations for flicks. So far they have failed me every time.

BTW, Blindie...how are you counting in your twelve hours? You have to have a certain period of time between boinks in order to count them as separate. Still, I get the feeling that you and I got more notches on our belts this weekend than the average DB nerd, so regardless, congrats!!!! I made a deal for cooking tonight in exchange for sex, but that never seems to be a "done deal" because for some reason, me cooking on my work-from-home days seems to be a "given" in this household. We shall see. I will demand my payment, but that does not seem to work as well as it once did.

besides...you are not married, so you must report your score with the requisite handicap.

At Grandma's 89th birthday she asked me when I was going to settle down and find a nice girl to start a family with. I asked her "I have to pick just one?" and then I told her I do not know any nice ones. The occassinal encounter thing has been working for me lately. All the percs without all of the maintenance and I do not even have to like them, which is great for a misanthrope like myself. It has been a pretty decent summer for all of that. This year I finally completly rehabilitated my social life to a point where it was before she came and dominated my life for 6 years, ran off the fun friends, and then left me broken and malfunctioning and quite literally (and I yes I mean literally) dying.

I am kind of skeptical about falling "in love" again. There is a good Henry Miller qoute that I can not do verbatum, about the seed of love that we bury deeper and deeper in ourselves to hide it as we drift from one experience to another.

On further reflection, the time span was about 14 hours, not 12.
I apologize for my exaggeration.
Like you, I did not watch any football over the weekend either, but unlike you I consider my mancard sufficiently punched without that.
You ask too much of yourself, my friend.

I have died and gone to bad software purgatory.

we've seen that before

it's the classic example of adhering to corporate DBA rules that all SQL must be executed via stored procedures

because, you know, otherwise the chance of dynamic SQL messing with the carefully rigged house of cards, er, i mean, database structure might be jeopardized...