You are here.<\/p>\n

Where? (Squinting eyes …)<\/p>\n

Even in today\u2019s world of visual media and marketing, it\u2019s rare that we actually get to see a visual depiction of \u201cwhere you are\u00e2\u20ac?. Earlier this week, I had the privilege. I work for a large aerospace company that employs approximately 135,000 people. Tuesday, a \u201cbig-wig\u00e2\u20ac? from \u201csomewhere\u00e2\u20ac? came down to our tiny little Oklahoma branch to both congratulate us on what a wonderful job we\u2019ve been doing for the company, and to meet us for the first time. I\u2019ve always felt icky when it comes to meetings such as this — there\u2019s that awkward moment I dread when you shake hands with a boss and realize that the people only two rungs above you on the corporate ladder have no idea that you even existed five minutes ago.<\/p>\n

Anyway, on with the humor. During the dude\u2019s presentation (can you call a guy in a three-piece suit \u201cdude\u00e2\u20ac??), he begins throwing up the worst PowerPoint slides I have ever seen. The first two slides were filled with a gazillion words in tiny 10pt type. At one point the presenter himself had trouble making out words on the screen. Those of us who opted to sit in the back row never had a chance. But that wasn\u2019t the funniest part.<\/p>\n

The funniest part of the presentation came when the presenter showed us our company\u2019s organizational chart. There were five separate boxes, each representing a different department. I had just begun to wonder which of the five boxes I fit in when he changed slides. He then explained that under one of those five boxes, there were over 20 departments. Aha! I must be in one of these 20 boxes, right? Wrong. The next page showed the departments under THOSE boxes. To make a long story short, under those boxes were another department that had two departments in it, one of which houses 30 contracts, one of which is ours. Unfortunately, the organizational chart didn\u2019t go down far enough to show exactly where I work. How sad is that?<\/p>\n

In other news … lesse, our washer (clothes, not dish) seems to have died. It fills with water but the motor seems deadish. I rarely get around to fixing the things I KNOW how to fix around our house; ain\u2019t no way I\u2019m tackling this on my own. <\/p>\n

I think I\u2019ve figured out the whole My Space thing. It\u2019s like Pokemon, for grown-ups. \u201cFind all your friends and collect them all!\u00e2\u20ac? I spent way too much time last night randomly punching in people\u2019s names and searching for them. If nothing else, the whole site is a very interesting online social experiment. <\/p>\n

Today we were informed that the CIO of the FAA will be dropping by next Wednesday for a tour of our server room. We were informed to \u201cwear our Sunday best.\u00e2\u20ac? On Sundays I\u2019m usually in my boxers until at least noon. While it\u2019s a strange request, I\u2019ll wear the cleanest pair I own; hopefully the white legs won\u2019t scare him off. <\/p>\n

Next week the three generations (Morgan, Susan and Susan\u2019s mom Liz) will be going to Washington DC for a week, leaving Mason and myself alone in Bachelor City, USA. The Amazing Robbo predicts many Hot Pockets and Corn Dogs in the boy\u2019s immediate future. At least one night I\u2019d like to take him to Incredible Pizza, just because we haven\u2019t gone yet. Last night I was trying to think of things my dad did with me when I was a kid and do those things with Mason. One thing I thought of was \u201cbuilding something\u00e2\u20ac?, although I\u2019m not sure what we could build (maybe we could hang some shelves or something). <\/p>\n

Speaking of trips, the week of Memorial Day, Susan, Mason and Morgan are going on vacation to Jamaica!!! I, however, am not. Instead I\u2019ll be hanging around the house. I am still planning on taking that week off, but I\u2019m not sure what I\u2019ll be doing. Road trip? Toga party? Susan will just have to wonder (evil laugh here). Seriously though, I don\u2019t have any plans yet. I might go to Chicago, I might go to Texas, or I might just set out driving in some random direction — which, in a truck that costs $65 to fill up, could get expensive in a hurry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You are here. Where? (Squinting eyes …) Even in today\u2019s world of visual media and marketing, it\u2019s rare that we actually get to see a visual depiction of \u201cwhere you are\u00e2\u20ac?. Earlier this week, I had the privilege. I work for a large aerospace company that employs approximately 135,000 people. Tuesday, a \u201cbig-wig\u00e2\u20ac? from \u201csomewhere\u00e2\u20ac? came down to our tiny little Oklahoma branch to both congratulate us on what a wonderful job we\u2019ve been doing for the company, and to meet us for the first time. I\u2019ve always felt icky when it comes to meetings such as this — there\u2019s… (read more)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}