I drafted an email and so that I would remember to act on it, I just added my address in the cc line and sent a copy to myself. That way my copy will sit in my inbox until I complete the task. I then hit ’send’. A few minutes later, I saw the notice at the bottom of my desktop (Outlook) that alerts to incoming email displaying the subject and the begining text….as the email came in I thought… WOW, I was just thinking that!!

I recently returned from another work conference trip to Las Vegas. This time the trip was for the Affiliate Summit West 2007 Conference. The conference in all was a great success! i did not lose my cell phone - but did manage to lose a client! Well not really lose him, he was just geographically misplaced for a while. It was my fault though as I invited him to join us for company drinks on Tuesday night when they were held on Monday night! With some scrambling and with the correct infomation he still did not manage to find us on the night. I guess I should have booked the tour guide for those who were directionally challenged…or given out maps at least!

But the Blonde Award for this conference goes to my contemporary. He invited several guest to dine at the Palms Restaurants and said he would meet them in the restaurant at the Palms (Casino). The restaruant is not at the Palms but at Ceasars! They all made the trek from the Palms Casino to Ceasars and were well taken care of!

January - Took new scarf back to store because it was too tight.

February - Fired from pharmacy job for failing to print labels….Helllloooo!!!….bottles won’t fit in typewriter!!!

March - Got really excited…..finished jigsaw puzzle in 6 months….box said “2-4 years!”

April - Trapped on escalator for hours…..power went out!!!

May - Tried to make Kool-Aid…..wrong instructions…. 8 cups of water won’t fit into those little packets!!!

June - Tried to go water skiing…..couldn’t find a lake with a slope.

July - Lost breast stroke swimming competition….learned later, the other swimmers cheated, they used their arms!!!

August - Got locked out of my car in rain storm….car swamped because soft-top was open.

September - The capital of California is “C”…..isn’t it???

October - Hate M &M’s…..they are so hard to peel.

November - Baked turkey for 4 1/2 days. Instructions said 1 hour per pound and I weigh 108!!!

December - Couldn’t call 911…..”duh”…..there’s no “eleven” button on the stupid phone!!!

What a year!

When I asked him why he behaved so well at school but misbehaved and spoke so rudely at home he replied, “I only have so much goodness in me and I use it all up at school!” It appears that my plea to save a little of that goodness for home fell on deaf ears!

Sometimes we forget just what little sponges our children are. Often I see behaviour that I know could only come from modelling me…and that is scary! I trained my second boy to scream before thinking, and to whine before asking! He was born only 17 months after our the first son. Every time he cried I would come running to see what the first born was doing to him! Typically it was counting eyes, one eye (poke), two eye (poke) etc. He was probably three and talking before I realised how I had conditioned him…I scream, momma runs! This is why I don’t own a cat.

“Dear McAfee Customer,

Don’t miss this important opportunity to help us serve you better. To provide you with the best possible products and services, we need your feedback. You were recently asked to complete a McAfee Customer Satisfaction Survey. If you have already taken the survey, thank you for your participation, no other feedback is necessary. If you have not taken the survey, please take a few minutes to do so now…”

Their product worked so well, I found their email in my spam filter!! So how will they measure the effectiveness of their survey, customer satisfaction or their spam filter? If they have 100% no response - their product is perfect?

Well it is nearly Christmas time. And I say Christmas because I will be celebrating Christmas, not ‘the holiday season’! It just takes me the whole holiday season to celebrate the one day! So I was out shopping for Christmas presents to ship home to friends and family and was stuck with what to get Liz. What do you buy a Buddhist for Christmas?

Some years ago I went on a trip to visit a friend. As a young (attempting to be fit) junior office in the Royal Australian Air Force, I went for an early morning jog. It was 4km (20 minutes?) to the beach. I decided to take the direct route there and come back one block over, assuming that the street ran parallel…that was my first mistake… I turned to go back to the house and 1.5 hours later… I stopped to ask this nice old man, who was gardening, how to find Torooka Street. Explaining that I was out jogging and got lost didnt help the man to stop laughing at me! “Hop in honey,” he said as he kindly opened his car door. 10 minutes later he dropped me off at the door step.

The funniest part of this story is that I was on my way to my new assignment at the School of Air Navigation. (Fortunately I only taught Statistics!)

Gotta love technology. It allows workplace flexibility with computers, tv, digital telephones, internet connectivity… and all those time saving download software programs to help me make it through the day just a little more organized. They also help with communication - like instant message. IM can bring people from a satelite office as close as though they were next door! A word of warning though… if having yet another one of the company long meetings and you start up an IM with collegues to keep yourself awake - make sure any IMs about the boss go to the intended recipient and NOT the boss! Oops I said as I realised my error!

When I mentioned that I wanted to create this site, a friend leaned in closely and quietly asked, “So is it really true that blondes are actually dumber or is that just a stereotype?” Straight faced I answered that persons of one specific hair color (ie. blonde) were not genetically predisposed to stupidity. I restrained myself from sharing that he was living proof that brunettes share this ‘dumb’ gene!