Tonight when i got home, i started looking through the bills, which have been piling up on the dresser in my home office (hey, I have three dressers and three chests and two closets full of just my stuff), and noticed our satellite bill was kind of high, so I went online to our account, and immediately was asked to update. i had a pretty reasonable plan, and then subscribed to two premium channel packages, HBO and Starz!. To my surprise, the ultimate package, which includes about 65 more channels is only $11 more than what we are paying now. But going down to the next lower package and then adding my current premium channels was only $5 less than now!
Ok friends, here is another tale of life - with me...
I was busily typing away at my report...I need to explain a bit I think. My client wanted to take on some new business; they needed to have some money to do that. They are already short on money, so they they solicit funds from a consortium of commercial credit and the state . The state requests (requires) quarterly reports on how the money was spent, and that it was spent according to the plan submitted when they loaned the money. When the expenditure of money exceed the original budget by 10%, they require a report on the project, to determine if they need to bail out the project with more money or bail out the project with some money and then report back to the legislature the project is moving along or stop all funding, demand payment immediately, and report to the legislature that the project is a total waste of money, and people should get fired. Option 3 is least desired outcome. My report is probably going to be in the first option, because the demand on money for more equipment is driven by a lot of political stuff and legal stuff - This mess of a project's prior manager decided to retire early, and six months later I come along, and they say "have we got a project for YOU" ....I told my boss today its like each day getting a new pandorian box to deal with. You know about pandoras box right? "The story of Pandora's Box can be interpreted in more than one way, but one obvious moral is that of "curiosity killed the cat".
And so it is that each day on this project is a new surprise, usually a bad one.
So I am writing the report to get the oversight board to understand why the project is late, why the project is over budget, and why they need more money. Sounds bad huh?
Its not...I hope that once i layout the whole story of the background, the idea, the planning, how the vendors did things , where everything went, and why they need more money for even more equipment, we will move on. I need to get this darn thing done! Rumor has it that I am being eyed for promotion...I have a meeting w the CIO tomorrow, hope that turns out OK.
Remember: love, laugh and LIVE
Soon we are taking our daughter and her husband to a baseball game..not my Giants, but thats OK- Going to watch Oakland beat Bush's former team, the Texas Rangers
While the Giants a sucking up the bottom of the standings at 9 and 13, Oakland is 14 and 9 and the hapless Rangers are 7 and 16, worst in all of major league baseball..
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