Congratulations and Oh Shit

Today was both a good and bad day for me. Today my partner in crime at work turned in his 2 weeks notice. He gave the organization a chance to counter offer but they would have had to give him at least a $10k raise, maybe more. What does that mean.

There will only be one of us that knows the business that we both do since he is leaving. There might be a plus but there is certainly a minus. I think my Derby week, something I have been doing for 20 years now, is either canned or at the very least I will only be able to go Thursday evening through Monday evening. I will miss so much by doing this. I could go down two weekends in a row but excuse me, I think it costs me between $90 and $110 for a round trip at today’s gas prices. Not to mention a round trip is 12 hours of driving.

Trying to get in any vacation will be tough except during the summer and odd hours here and there.

One last thing to share. Tonight one of my fave shows came on. Have you ever seen Good Eats with Alton Brown on the Food Channel? Enclosed is two parts of the episode I saw. He really is good as he passes on a lot of interesting things. Sometimes they are silly, sometimes it is real useful information. In the end you get details on putting some food project together and you get entertained. Of course it could just be my inner geek in me that likes it.

There are things I do not know that I will need to come up to speed on. I can guarantee I can not come up to speed that quick (two weeks).

Getting someone from outside the organization (or even inside) that knows what we need to know will be hard to come by at best. That means, should we hire someone, they will be green. Well that and since they will not want to pay them much they will be real green.

But at the same time I am happy for him. It is about time someone start paying him what he is worth. Personally I think they should consider paying him more than what they will be paying him but still, not bad.

Well I guess I will just need to learn to enjoy my time away from work more quickly and start taking vacation soon. I have a lot of vacation time to plan for Mondays and Fridays between now and the end of the year.

I hope this does not last long as if it does it is going to get real old.

OK, it ate it again. Here is something I watched tonight. A show called Good Eats by Alton Brown on the Food Channel. He is a most interesting person. He is always either entertaining you with something goofy or something real good to know. In the end you have a food project to do and you probably learned something. Of course it might be just me and my inner geek but I really like it. So here are parts one and two of the show I saw tonight on waffles.