11/30/09

Not a very interesting day today.  Poor sleep in the train, again, led me to only do the 1-mile walk.  I need to stop with the excuses for that.

Office at 7:30, and my first order of business was to try to get Eric for the Blackberry server install on Wednesday.  I found out later that he can't do it until next week; and I'm not that sad about disappointing Steve.  Also on the IT front, I downloaded and installed AutoCAD, thus completing the W7 installation on my desktop.  I'm very happy with that so far.  I also spent intermittent time over the first few hours wrangling printer troubles.

Then I moved into Calyon, getting ready for my 10:00 meeting.  After taking the time (and energy and paper) to print copies of what I thought were the final documents, I arrived at the meeting (Mike in tow, for once) to be handed newer revisions.  The only interesting thing to come from that meeting is that I will be allowed to turn the French translations into better English.  This was not something that Isabelle wanted me to do when it was one-on-one, but Philippe agreed that it was a good idea and she went along.  Subway rides in both directions were spent discussing prospects and upcoming meals with Mike. 

Back at the office, my first order was to nail down the site visits for tomorrow.  Now I'm going to NJ tomorrow, but it should be a slightly shorter day; so that's not too bad.  Equinix in the morning and NetAccess in the afternoon.

Then I spent some time on H&K, approving some submittals (and requiring still more clarification) and also nailing down a future bulletin.  The final thing for them was a proposal for additional services in the telecom arena.  Always a good thing to get more money.

The hour after that was not terribly productive, full of distractions and annoyances.  But that's really OK. 

Then I went down to 200 5th for the C&W meeting where I spent a lot of time dealing with other H&K bullshit on my phone.  This guy is pulling an email from July against an in person meeting in September.  But I did the political thing and we'll make it right.  My ears were open enough to answer intelligently all questions put to me.

Now I'm in the train, and I'm not done working.  I have to at least start writing a Barclays proposal for Atlanta, and I've been writing this while waiting for the VPN to link up.  The first pain in the ass of this will be finding a good document on which to base the proposal.