Deadlines, deadlines and more deadlines

Sad to think about but it seems that life in some cases is all about deadlines. Setting them or having them set for you by others. I would think that it is an inevitability like death or taxes. I have a few deadlines that are staring me in the face in the near future.

DTV – Yep, February 17 is right around the corner and we don’t have cable or satellite since I hate the thought of spending $50 or more a month. Besides we got more than enough information from regular broadcast channels but now those channels are going from analog to digital on February 17. We don’t have a digital TV set so we have to get the converter boxes for our TV. We picked one up from Best Buy to try it out. We got all of the regular channels in digital now except for channel 8 in the living room, which is one of our most watched channels. Come to find out we can get it on the antenna in bedroom so apparently we need to get a new antenna for the living room too but I think it will be much better than paying a monthly fee for watching TV. We tested the bedroom antenna in the living room and 8 came in just fine. Onwards and upwards or so they would say.

Job transition – I was told that I would be transitioning over to Indi’s job at the beginning of February but I wondering if that will happen on time. The 2 that are supposed to be taking over for me just got their laptops ordered last week so it will be kind of a squeak if it happens on time. The positive is Indi will have a couple of months to show me how to take over her position.

Being an island unto myself – Indi leaves at the end of March or first part of April for her trip. Undoubtedly she will have me prepared to take over her old position as best she can being that she has always been good at training. I told her and Rhys last night that I don’t really think that it will hit me that they are gone until, well…. they’re gone. One of the great things about taking my job on the national team was that I already knew someone on the team and they worked in the same building. After Indi leaves I will be working on a team with no other members in the same center, it will either be time to shine or just get by (hopefully the former). Only time will tell on this one….

Last night we all went out to celebrate 4 different people’s birthdays from work: Malinda, Lisa, Dawnita and Cheala. It was a lot of fun. Karma asked me to sing Breath by Breaking Benjamin so I got up and did that one first. I asked Malinda if she wanted me to sing anything for her for her birthday. She said anything by Led Zeppelin so I sang Whole Lotta Love. Everyone was going nuts, Malinda got up on the bar and did some pole dancing and she wasn’t even drunk. Angela has begged me for a long time to sing Hold On Loosely by 38 Special and then almost left before I got a chance to sing it. She should actually be thankful she didn’t leave before that or I would have never let her live that one down. William asked me to come up and sing the Happy Birthday song by The Beatles (Thank God I remember most of it, it had been forever since I heard the whole thing). Lisa asked me to sing her some Iron Maiden (who I haven’t been a big fan of but since it was a birthday wish…) but she couldn’t find any in the karaoke book. Karma found some but I couldn’t remember how any of them went so I just went with the song I had already picked which was Cum On Feel The Noise by Quiet Riot (Lisa said that was good she was just looking to hear some 80s metal). After that we came home, Karma was starting to look a little bit bored and it was getting long between times of singing. I had a lot of fun and there were a lot of people out that I either hadn’t seen in a long time or outside of work which was nice as well.

Right now I am watching some football and trying to relax before going back to work tomorrow. *SIGH* Weekends sometimes are just too short.

Later peeps…