Blog Number 225

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

I would like to code this as a "boring meeting blog" with your permission.  My life at work is getting exciting with more and more projects that I am involved with on a day to day basis.  It is great for my career and things overall are going great.  The one side effect of this however is that I have many more meetings that I have to attend.  Most meetings are important (or have the potential of being important) but there is the occasional meeting that I attend that (although mandatory to attend) really serves no purpose other than to have the ability to say that we have had a meeting.

At this very moment I am in one of "those" meetings.  To be sure it is an important meeting, I just do not need to pay attention (other than to listen for my name in case someone needs my input).  During these types of meetings usually I surf the web, catch up on email, or instant message with other people that are also non-players in the meeting and make pithy (or not so pithy) comments about the current speaker.

These meetings make for good irony in my life.  I get nothing accomplished on days that involve many meetings.  I feel horrible on days where I feel like I accomplished nothing and as such I have come many days with a look on my face that my wife can interpret as a "day full of meetings" look.  I cannot imagine being a manager and having nothing but meetings to look forward to when I arrive to work.

Thursdays are particularly bad for me as I start my day off with back to back to back one hour meetings and then play catch up the rest of the day.  The good news for me today though is that a two hour meeting scheduled for this afternoon was postponed for a few weeks so things are looking up for the day.

Well this meeting is winding down and I have to pay attention to the last few minutes as it is at this time that "action items" are handed out and you want to make sure I am not given something to do that I do not want to do.  Until next time...

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon