I spent today in that training session. It was all rather useless and redundant. Hopefully tomoroow will have a bit more useful, as in applicable, information but I'm not holding my breath. The funny part about when I go to these things is I always seem to hit it off with people. Seriously, I'm one of the worst employees in the world when I'm not actually interested in what I'm doing. However, when I'm put into a semi-social situation with high up types they always seem to love me. I get pulled aside for my opinions on things, and have corporate bigwigs give me their cards wanting to talk with me later. Even the director of sales here who I deal with everyday seemed to fall into this pattern today. I'll never understand it.

I've also determined that I think I can probably get back to being much more functional here, but I need to get over thinkin gI always have to be "do"ing something. Really I need to spend a lot more time researching, analyzing, and planning larger scale ideas. I'm just so used to working operational jobs that I have a hard time thinking of those things as work. It is a pretty major switch in thought processes that I need to get over or else this job is going to continue to be stagnant, and I'll become more and more useless.

Oh, and as an aside, this morning when I walked into my office there were several police officers here and the place was a bit of a mess. Last night some kids busted in and tore things apart. They stole a couple computers and loose gadgets, but mostly just threw stuff around. I was a bit concerned when I saw the person next to me's desk torn apart. Buit as it turns out these were some rather stupid thieves. They let themselves be videotaped, left fingerprints all over the place including on a computer monitor's screen, and the skipped over the drawer of my desk that had about 30+ CDs and a $500 digital camera plus additional lenses in it. My charmed life continues. Yay!